Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:45
Ken,
Instead of using the standard Tojo/Nisso filter, you can purchase a Bosch/LUCAS (same company!) CAV filter, as used by CAT and most earth moving machinery to filter fuel. These filters are spin-on to your standard primer pump/filter base, by use of an adapter.
When fitted, you can see the fuel and
water droplets (if any) and keep a check on the filter. Typically, you can replace filters every few months to keep dirt and other bleep that you pick up from the servo's tanks.
A replacement filter is a steal at $8-11 and they are more environmentally friendly as you aren't throwing a large steel can away, that can't be recycled as it is soaked in diesel and can't go into the council's recycling programs.
These filters aren't fiddly either. My Patrol 3.0 filter is exactly the same as the 2.8 and 4.2 in the GQ. You need to remove the whole assembly from the truck, by unbolting the primer/filter assembly, then remove the hoses (supply and feed sides) then use a vice to hold the assemby, whilst twisting the bleep out of the whole thing to get the filter off. No matter how good you are, you will be covered in fuel. It takes me about 30 minutes to change a Nissan filter, or 2 minutes to change a Bosch unit.
Also, the Nissan filters are $34.00 each, compared to the box of 10 CAV filters that I purchased two months ago for $45.00 ($4.50 per filter!)
Don't worry about flow and contamination screening properties either. They filter down to about 10u (Nissan states that their filters do about 10-12u) and have a flow of around 80LpH, which is much better than the Nissan unit.
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