Can't find the fuel filter on 85 EFI

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BioTex

BioTex

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According to my searches and the parts places showing a metal fuel filter for sale, I should have one but can't find it. The engine bay looks to be totally stock and unmolested. I have put the truck on a lift even. I can't see a filter anywhere even though I traced the lines from the tank. The supply line looks to me to go directly into the rear of the fuel rail. I must be missing it. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
 
Found where I was going wrong. I see there are two access holes on top of the tank. The pump is under one and the sender under the other. I was tracing the wrong lines. Another thing is I was looking for a much larger filter. The one in there now is way smaller than I expected. Easy to miss as a filter. Looks more like a check valve.
 
Well crap I feel stupid. I found the real fuel filter above the starter bolted to the block just like the above thread mentions. It looks like the pictures of the ones for sale so I'm convinced it is the one. Guess the smaller thing is indeed a check valve...
Guess I can order a replacement now.
 
Say buddy, it's right here in the red circle.
Fuel Filter.webp
 
It's a stupid place for it. If you can I'd remount it. I had enough slack since my hoses were from an extended cab in my regular cab truck to move it to the front of the block where I can reach it
 
Mudder said:
It's a stupid place for it. If you can I'd remount it. I had enough slack since my hoses were from an extended cab in my regular cab truck to move it to the front of the block where I can reach it
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I totally agree. Too hard to get to for a regular maintenance item.
 
Regular maintenance? They're good for like 100,000 miles or something like that. Geez ya whiners, you think that's bad, you should try swapping the fuel filter on the next gen trucks with the 3VZ, down on the frame rail tangled in above the T-bar mount. Huge PITA, impossible to change without taking a bath in gasoline.

On the 22RE, remove the front wheel, take out that little access panel in the inner fender, easy to reach now. Loosen the banjos before you unbolt it from the block. Nuthin to it.
 
100k seems a bit excessive, but perhaps not since there is a filter sock inside the tank that gets the bigger stuff. I still live in the 70's I guess cause my instinct tells me to change the filter every couple of years or so.
 
Yeah it's right behind the passenger side inner fender liner, really easy to get to. They may be more than 100,000 mile filters, Toyota did several that were lifetime filters like on the mk3 supras, they were 4 or 500k mi filters and PITA to change
 
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