Has anybody put in an easily accessible prefilter in the fuel line of the 80?

[e9999]

will be replacing the OEM fuel filter.
clearly that thing is not easily field replaceable.
I'm thinking it would be good to have an easily replaceable filter somewhere upstream, maybe someplace under the truck (the tank filter not being so easily accessible when fully loaded, although IIRC much easier to access than the intake one, if truck is empty). Is there a good spot to tap into the lines? Anybody done it? How?
thanks

 

[Frankencruiser]

It wouldn't take much to put one one below the master cylinder where the fuel lines enter the engine bay. On the other hand that is low on my priority list. The original one was fairly clean at 156k when I changed it. At the rate I'm going it will be almost 30 years before it gets that many more miles.

 

[Michael Hanson]

I am thinking about it in my fj60 1987. Was going to take a metal boat filter with spin on cartridge. Seems like they dont recomend plastic ones. Moeller or Raycor were the ones I was looking at. MIke

 

[e9999]

is the fuel line metal all the way?

isn't that odd that Toy didn't make it easier to change that filter for a truck used in the 3rd world? well, OK, maybe they are all diesels in the 3rd world, never mind...

I had put in a big pre filter on my van when I was going down to Baja (before most of you guys were born ). All of 2 minutes, all soft lines. Dang it was easy to work on trucks back then. Except for the spaghetti vaccuum lines of course.


(I should see how long it takes to get to the sock, haven't done that yet. can you replace that one easily with the tank full?)

 

[Michael Hanson]

Easier to service than some, at least they are high up and you dont need to crawl under the cruiser. MIke

 

[Photoman]

is the fuel line metal all the way?

isn't that odd that Toy didn't make it easier to change that filter for a truck used in the 3rd world? well, OK, maybe they are all diesels in the 3rd world, never mind...

I had put in a big pre filter on my van when I was going down to Baja (before most of you guys were born ). All of 2 minutes, all soft lines. Dang it was easy to work on trucks back then. Except for the spaghetti vaccuum lines of course.


(I should see how long it takes to get to the sock, haven't done that yet. can you replace that one easily with the tank full?)

If you get desperate you could have someone (not me) make you something like this. I made it more to be able to plumb in a fuel pressure gauge. It is a duplicate of the stock fuel filter only made out of aluminum and bolts in the stock location. The stock banjo fuel lines bolt up to the ends. Two of the four side ports are to relocate the fuel filter. One of the remaining two can have a fuel pressure gauge connected.


The sock comes out with the fuel pump and fuel sender unit. It does not matter if the tank is full.

Bill

 

[OGBeno]

Sexy time indeed!

 

[tag3]

Just remember your 80 is fuel injected. Plastic may blow up with the pressure the pump puts out. I have run dual filters on my 60 since I got her running.

 

[e9999]

If you get desperate you could have someone (not me) make you something like this. I made it more to be able to plumb in a fuel pressure gauge. It is a duplicate of the stock fuel filter only made out of aluminum and bolts in the stock location. The stock banjo fuel lines bolt up to the ends. Two of the four side ports are to relocate the fuel filter. One of the remaining two can have a fuel pressure gauge connected.


The sock comes out with the fuel pump and fuel sender unit. It does not matter if the tank is full.

Bill

work of art no doubt, nice! but I don't have the time to make it nor the need.
I could always get an OEM FF and put it under the truck some place accessible if the lines allow, but it's pretty big. Summit has a ton of these things and smaller ones no doubt. Question is where to put it.

What pressure would it have to handle, and how difficult would it be to put some AN connectors in the middle of an existing metal line?

 

[Photoman]

At least 43 psi.

You might be able to tap in where the metal line switches to the rubber hose under the hood if that is a suitable location to work from for you. At least it is a fitting to start from.

 

[rove_mcanus]

isn't that odd that Toy didn't make it easier to change that filter for a truck used in the 3rd world? well, OK, maybe they are all diesels in the 3rd world, never mind...

It's actually simple to change the filter when the brake booster and master are on the other side of the engine bay