Correct Fuel Line and Filter

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VaCat33

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Hi All

Does anybody have a current photo (or can you take one) of the correct routing of the fuel line (from the filter to the carb) as configured for the LAT 1 (F4B/Holley) Induction option. Based on the LAT1 instruction sheet (See old photo) it appears as if there is a metal line, at least part of the way, between the filter and carb and the written instructions support that. I currently have an all rubber hose from the filter to the carb.

Also, does anybody know the correct fuel filter. The workshop manual does not say and the BON refers to a Purolator GF-11. I believe that part number is out of date. I googled the part number and came up with all different images. A part number and photo would help.

I usually have a metal filter per Duke's recommendation, but somewhere along the line I heard a plastic filter is correct so sometimes when originality counts I switch it for a plastic one. That said the images I came up with for the GF-11 filter were both metal and plastic.

Thanks,
 
Ditto & More Ditto

Duke Mk1a said:
I would not even start an engine with a plastic filter.
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The fuel line routing and filter set-up is a risky compromise in a Tiger just for starters. Not as bad as any old Bantam, but scary just the same. Never plastic !!!
 
Really Duke,

These guys get out into the parking lot at a show or slightly before then put on their old tires, filters, brittle from age bits before the show, well unless they trailer them in. I could quote a pal who wants the original seat belts in the survivor style car, "I will change them when I go for a drive,"
But I know if he gets em in it will he will be saying "they are fine for around town,"

Which brings to mind the oldest excuse known for not wearing seat belts, "I will be thrown clear of the accident," I think it was a quote from Fred Flintstone.
 
Warren said:
Which brings to mind the oldest excuse known for not wearing seat belts, "I will be thrown clear of the accident," I think it was a quote from Fred Flintstone.
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I call those guys, future organ donors. They are close behind motorcycle riders with no helmets.
 
Easy Rider

Duke Mk1a said:
I call those guys, future organ donors. They are close behind motorcycle riders with no helmets.
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That's cause you are not from the feel the hair blowing thru your hair while you still have it generation.

Some of us still like to ride in fly over country or at the beach in a 25 zone with out our helmets, but the Nanny state say's NO.
 
Organ Donors/No seat Belts/No Helmets ???

Warren said:
That's cause you are not from the feel the hair blowing thru your hair while you still have it generation.

Some of us still like to ride in fly over country or at the beach in a 25 zone with out our helmets, but the Nanny state say's NO.
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Dad would say " Life has risks; some don't survive the day". Usually spoken after I had done another (plural) dumb thing. When I flipped ole' number 78 in the fall of 68, the submarine belts saved my butt even though the hair (I did have some) brushed the grass. The San Diego family calls So Cal bikers "pin Balls". Not an attractive pursuit. Our helmet law was nulled when the bureaucrats forgot to specify the specific application and defiant bikers wore them on a kneecap. True story . . . . .sorta
 
VaCat33 said:
Hi All

Does anybody have a current photo (or can you take one) of the correct routing of the fuel line (from the filter to the carb) as configured for the LAT 1 (F4B/Holley) Induction option. Based on the LAT1 instruction sheet (See old photo) it appears as if there is a metal line, at least part of the way, between the filter and carb and the written instructions support that. I currently have an all rubber hose from the filter to the carb.

Also, does anybody know the correct fuel filter. The workshop manual does not say and the BON refers to a Purolator GF-11. I believe that part number is out of date. I googled the part number and came up with all different images. A part number and photo would help.

I usually have a metal filter per Duke's recommendation, but somewhere along the line I heard a plastic filter is correct so sometimes when originality counts I switch it for a plastic one. That said the images I came up with for the GF-11 filter were both metal and plastic.

Thanks,
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Try Universal GF 61, 5/16P

It's not clear to me at least whether the correct filter is/was all metal, or plastic with a metal top, or something else.

The plastic-with-a-metal-top version apparently is still available as a generic inline filter.

I'll echo the remarks on fire danger although the odds seem reduced assuming correct placement.

I wonder if the factory position was the coolest or at least the less hot part of the stock engine bay. Next to the ballast resistor is high risk (don't ask me how I know).

Allan Ballard
Atlanta, GA
 
It would seem, as the LAT1 option was dealer installed, that there may not be any "factory correct" methodology. I wasn't around when the cars were being delivered, but I'd guess there were quite possibly a number of different installs, in terms of bends in hard line and fuel filter used?
 
Here is the correct Tiger fuel filter, Ford # C2RZ-9155-A as shown in the Rootes Parts Book. These were originally marked Rotunda, then Autolite, have never seen a Motorcraft marked plastic body filter, Ford replaced the plastic with a metal body, probably for safety reasons. Note the box shown has been re-labeled twice.

David Franchi
 
Plastic fuel filter -

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Risk

It is not about the actual temperatures or what/how much plastic can take temperature wise? new. Plastic ages faster than glass or metal. But is the way Rootes did it in the day. Replace it with every oil change? That would reduce the risk a bunch.

Rick
 
I always put the filter before the pump. That's a fair way from the engine heat. Any electric pump I have bought has specified it.

As for helmet laws, you can't ride a push bike here without having to wear one.
 
filter

rick,
many plastics have a melting point of 350 degrees up to the 700's. that's why I asked about the engine compartment temps.. of course I never have the heat problem with the alpines.
 
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