I use an Earls stintered bronze filter downstream from my pumps. You are right that they clog. every 100 hrs or so I start to notice a decrease in the overall flow rate, then maybe a small drop in pressure. The element always looks perfectly clean, but I just give it a good cleaning and it is good for another 100 hrs.
Dave Leonard
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:41 AM, John Slade <sladerj@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>I use filters between the tank and pumps that have a sintered bronze element.
Mike, are these the small blue circular Earls filters?
I had problems with these. I would regularly get fuel starvation / low mixture at high throttle settings. I finally traced the problem to the the sintered bronze elements that looked clean but were, in fact, partially blocked by invisible tiny particles. I replace the bronze elements with stainless mesh filters and had no more problems.
John
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