Hey fellas,
Got a new truck on the road, and forgot how to work on gas engines.

I've got an 86 F150 with a Fuel Injected 302. It idles OK, the engine shakes a lot. But when you put the engine under load, it runs very poor. If you take off from a stop, it seems to fall on its face. If you stuff the pedal, it seems to just make noise but not go very fast.

I've replaced the spark plugs, distributor cap, and rotor. Waiting on plug wires to come in tomorrow morning.
I've checked the timing to be set a little higher than 10 degrees. I haven't found the spout connector so I left the timing a shade high to compensate?

Now I'm struggling to find the fuel filter on this pickup. Nothing under the cab on the frame rail looks like the new part I pulled out of this box. I'm wondering if the new part is incorrect, or if I'm just not seeing it.

There is a small black cylinder of a box that has fuel lines entering and exiting. But why would the supply and return enter and exit a fuel filter?

It seems like I need the replace the fuel filter and see what happens. All new ignitions compenents as of tomorrow (just waiting on plug wires), and it has premium gas in the tank now to compensate for the brown "gas" or junk that was in there.

Thanks fellas!

 

The spout connector is behind the ac bracket, off the module harness. This needs to be pulled when timed, it's more than just a hair. I run mine at 12*, little bit more for your money. There is a filter, large round metal beer can one with quick connects on the frame rail, right about the upward bend underneath the dead pedal area forward of the frame mounted pump. If you have dual tanks, there is also a cartridge style filter in the selector valve you mentioned. The bottom of it screws off like an oil filter

 

Replacing normal service items is never really a bad thing to do. But with an EFI truck you should always pull codes to see what the computer is telling you.