Strong smell of petrol in the cab today, so I stop and lift up the bonnet with the engine running only to see the stuff fairly gushing out over the distributor cap.
Then I noticed something I had not before, some plumbers nightmare of a gizmo between the petrol pump and the rest of the tubing. No idea what it is because it is certainly not in the manual, and there is a filter further along the line. Any ideas, it looks for all the world like something left over from a moonshiners still.
Sedimenter?
Probably an added in line fuel filter. Assuming the engine you refer to is a
2.25 (these are most common) standard setup has a sediment trap with a glass bowl on the pump and a a wire screen there and on the pickup pipe in the tank. Many owners add an after market paper filter, and that is probably what you have found.It does help if you say what model you are talking about. JD
I agree.
On my first Series III (2286cc Petrol), I had a glass-bowl sedimenter on the petrol pump but also had an inline filter which was a white plastic cylinder, about 2" long and 1.5" in diameter. I had all sorts of problems with dirty fuel to begin with. The carburettor was full of sand. (Can't blame the poor little Landy. Someone had set fire to it and I had to have it delivered on a trailer as there wasn't a huge amount left and what there was was full of soot, melted stuff and water.)
I also had to re-route the rubber fuel lines as the engine kept cutting out when it got hot. Oh those were the days.
When I replaced the fuel pump I used the sedimenter glass bowl as a whisky glass. Waste not, want not.
Judith
Possibly one of those 'fuel saver' gadgets, you know the ones that give you
300mpg from a V8!SimonJ vaguely muttered something like ...
I thought they were made from rocking horse s*it ...
Not so much a filter as a distillation column from an oil refinery with too many nuts and flanges.
I have a paper filter way up in the line but this thing is massive, as for the glass bowl, well I had one but not any more, it leaked and the present pump is devoid of that ornamental fish tank.
Thank heavens for duck tape. I suppose this doodah has some benefit in keeping the muck out the carb but is petrol mucky enough to justify that nowadays ?
The main benefit of the glass bowl is it separates water out of the fuel for you. Sediment also gets separated out by filters but water doesn't. Having said that, they don't work very well off road as the shaking and vibration tends to mix it all up again !
As for your mysterious doodah - I'd put my money on one of the snake oil fuel "conditioners" - maybe one of those magnetic ones that's supposed to realign all the molecules in the fuel so they sit in the float chamber in a more orderly fashion :-)
cheers
Dave W.
The previous owner of my '86 disco installed one of those magnet gadgets. I laughed when I came across it. I figured I'd remove it to save on weight. LOL
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