Inline fuel filter

[thejinx]

Well having had The Campervan Red Dwarf for 6 years and having had it on the road for a year I had a few issues with juddering etc so decided to change the plastic inline fuel filter. Now when I originally put this together I read that the general consensus was not to have the filter in the engine compartment. So I put it just after where the pipe comes out of the tank which puts it above and to the side of the gear box. Having changed it today it was a ball ache.

I want to put it in the engine compartment. What is the general consensus especially on safety as I am going to lay the van up for the winter and do a full service changing fuel lines etc. cheers

 

[Moseley]

The reason people don't like them in the engine bay is down to having two less joints that could leak fuel into an area that is likely to ignite it, and also because the filters are very flimsy, and in the event of a fire, they would quickly melt and probably guarantee the destruction of your van.

No-one plans to have their van go up in flames, but it makes sense to minimise the risk of it happening in the first place.

 

[thejinx]

So leave it where it is, is the advice then.

 

[Trikky2]

I have mine in the engine compartment but it's only been there since 1973 so I am not sure how it will do in the longer term.

 

[thejinx]

sarcasm . So which fuel filter. Currently have the plastic inline but have seen the glass and Crome. Now are the glass and Crome just for show or are they better

 

[BRAD]

I've had two fitted for about four years, the first is the cheap plastic one after the fuel tank.
The second is a Malpasi one fitted in the engine bay over on the left low down incase it does leak.

Worrying how much crap they pick up out of the fuel and tank.

 

[Trikky2]

sarcasm . So which fuel filter. Currently have the plastic inline but have seen the glass and Crome. Now are the glass and Crome just for show or are they better

:lol:

I looked at the glass ones that can be dismantled but, rightly or wrongly, I thought they looked a little fragile. I settled for a plastic one intended for commercial vehicles. It's larger and more solid than the normal car ones. It's doing ok - so far

 

[Robcod]

sarcasm . So which fuel filter. Currently have the plastic inline but have seen the glass and Crome. Now are the glass and Crome just for show or are they better

:lol:

I looked at the glass ones that can be dismantled but, rightly or wrongly, I thought they looked a little fragile. I settled for a plastic one intended for commercial vehicles. It's larger and more solid than the normal car ones. It's doing ok - so far

I tried to run a glass one on my kit car and its was awful and poor quality. They are very fragile and one leaked and one broke. Malpassi very good, I also had one of the metal ones that looks like the cheap plastic one but you don't tend to check and clean them very often so I think in general the cheapo ones are good and you replace them each year as part of your service and checking fuel lines.

 

[Robcod]

sarcasm . So which fuel filter. Currently have the plastic inline but have seen the glass and Crome. Now are the glass and Crome just for show or are they better

:lol:

I looked at the glass ones that can be dismantled but, rightly or wrongly, I thought they looked a little fragile. I settled for a plastic one intended for commercial vehicles. It's larger and more solid than the normal car ones. It's doing ok - so far

I tried to run a glass one on my kit car and its was awful and poor quality. They are very fragile and one leaked and one broke. Malpassi very good, I also had one of the metal ones that looks like the cheap plastic one but you don't tend to check and clean them very often so I think in general the cheapo ones are good and you replace them each year as part of your service and checking fuel lines.

 

[bac2ba6]

I used to have a glass one . It may of just been duff but it kept slowly undoing itself and leaking . Got a small metal one from halfrauds seems to be ok but obviously you carnt see inside them . Just change regularly

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