Cast Iron Fuel Filter - Rebuild and Filter

[sandbug]

From a good friend, who passed away, I could obtained a good metal fuel filter.
It looks to be in great condition, except that it is missing the filter.

1) How do I clean the interior of it?

2) A search says most places are out of stock on a Cast Iron Sediment Bowl Repair Kit, except for Mike's Affordables. Where can I get a kit if not from Mike's?

 

[alexiskai]

Mike's has it listed as back-ordered. One of the forum members here is working on having new filters manufactured. I'm not sure what his estimated finish date is.

 

[Gary WA]

From a good friend, who passed away, I could obtained a good metal fuel filter.
It looks to be in great condition, except that it is missing the filter.

1) How do I clean the interior of it?

2) A search says most places are out of stock on a Cast Iron Sediment Bowl Repair Kit, except for Mike's Affordables. Where can I get a kit if not from Mike's?

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Bead blasting works great!

 

[J Franklin]

Bead blasting works great!

And fast too!

 

[Bob C]

I just soak them in Rust 911.

 

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

I just soak them in Rust 911.

^^^ This ^^^

Once the internals are cleaned, we coat the inside with urethane Gas Tank sealer. The only other thing you will need is a lead washer. We make them for the ones we do. The big box stores sell a Lead sheet that is used for roofing flashing. We made a punch the correct internal & external sizes out of tubing that we welded an end with a stub, and then sharpened the other end in the Lathe. That way we just put the appropriate one in a Drill Press or a Milling machine and just pull downward with the power off. If the Lead is backed by a pine board or some Delrin, then it will all but shear thru the Lead.

One other thing to realize about these is they are NOT a Fuel Filter. They are a Water Separator. Because the solids would fall to the bottom along with the water in the fuel, then they "filter out" somewhat, but if you need to use it to filter sediment, you really need to correct the root problem as that is not what these were designed to do.

 

[alexiskai]

The only other thing you will need is a lead washer. We make them for the ones we do.

Isn't the lead washer used for the late Model T sediment bulbs the same part? Lang's sells it. They used to sell a rebuild kit for those bulbs that seemed like it would also work for the A bulbs, but, of course, currently back-ordered.

 

[sandbug]

All good reading, AND... I have enough RUST911 to make 64 gallons! All the washers are on it, and in good condition. Yeah, right! I probably don't need a filter since I have an inline one before the fuel pump!

 

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Isn't the lead washer used for the late Model T sediment bulbs the same part? Lang's sells it. They used to sell a rebuild kit for those bulbs that seemed like it would also work for the A bulbs, but, of course, currently back-ordered.

Yes it is. When these were first backordered, -and the glass bowl reproduction bulbs were unavailable, we had to fabricate tooling to get us by.

 

[rackops]

I bead blast mine, and it works well. The biggest issue for these is the threads on the base. They are very easy to mess up, so you need to be particularly careful (ask me how I know!)

I have several hundred filters (finally) on their way to me - just got the shipping notification yesterday. Assuming all works out correctly with them (they look good in the photos, but I want to test fit them first) they will be available from Snyder's.

The lead O-ring is the same as the Model T one. I have a few hundred of those enroute, but (again) Snyder's has those in stock currently.

Dave

 

[Bob Bidonde]

Both of my Model A's, a 1931 45-B Coupe and a 190-A Victoria, originally had cast iron gasoline sediment bowls. However the gas tank in my Victoria had a significant amount of sediment in it, so I switched to the glass sediment bowl so I could observe the amounts of sediment being trapped and removed. Both types work very well.