fuel filter
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I looked in the Haynes manual trying to find where to take the fuel filter off from a '77 F-150 6 cyl. I'm trying to restore a truck my brother has let go for 4 years. I changed the water pump, changed plugs, fan belts, oil and filters. I've looked almost everyplace I could get to and could not find it. Can anyone tell me where it might be?
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Remove the gas line from the carb and there should be a cartridge filter in the "hole". For an in-line filter trace the gas line back until you find a cylinder shaped object that would be the in-line filter. Usually an in-line filter is in the engine compartment, but some people add it other places along the gas line.
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Sparky
>I looked in the Haynes manual
>trying to find where to
>take the fuel filter off
>from a '77 F-150 6
>cyl. I'm trying to restore
>a truck my brother has
>let go for 4 years.
>I changed the water pump,
>changed plugs, fan belts, oil
>and filters. I've looked almost
>everyplace I could get to
>and could not find it.
>Can anyone tell me where
>it might be?
Hope this helps.
Sparky
>I looked in the Haynes manual
>trying to find where to
>take the fuel filter off
>from a '77 F-150 6
>cyl. I'm trying to restore
>a truck my brother has
>let go for 4 years.
>I changed the water pump,
>changed plugs, fan belts, oil
>and filters. I've looked almost
>everyplace I could get to
>and could not find it.
>Can anyone tell me where
>it might be?
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fuel filter
The stock carb should be a Carter YF maybe a YFA. The guys are right, there are one (maybe both) of two places to find the fuel filter. An "in-line" filter is usually located somewhere between the fuel outlet to the pump, or past the pump on the way to the carb. My fuel filter is threaded onto the carb. It's about the same size and shape as an in-line but on side actually threads into the fuel inlet port on the carb. Check out how the fuel line connects to the carb. Who knows? Maybe it doesn't have on installed.
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It may or may not have come with one. Those models/years usually came with the little cylinder filter that screwed right into the fuel inlet/port on the carb, the fuel line went into the other end of the filter. But, someone may have simply taken it off. Buy one at the parts house and put it on if it gives you piece of mind. I drove a 69 F100 with 390, and have had two F100/150s since that never had a filter til I installed one. So it's not uncommon to not find them under the hood.
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The factory would never sell a vehicle without a fuel filter and I would never drive one without it.
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Geez, franklin2...you sound a little bit pissy today! But I agree with you...best to install a fuel filter if there ain't one. As for "the factory would never sell a truck without one", My 69 F100 360 V-8 came direct from the dealer without one, as did my 68 F100 300 I6. Guess they were made factory equipment sometime in the 70's.