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Cat fuel filter on 1.9TD

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farkman:
Hey guys

I would like to install one of those Cat filters on my car. I was thinking about using a 3.5"x 3.5"x 3/4" thick piece of aluminum. Then drilling three holes in it for the fuel lines and tapping the holes for NPT fittings. To start the fuel supply port would have a 1/4" female-female fitting threaded into the aluminum base plate. The a tee fitting threaded onto the female fitting. And two hose barbs for both sides of the tee. Then for the other two ports just having 90 degree elbows threaded into the base plate, and hose barbs threaded into the elbows. Then securing the lines with clamps. As for the threads that hold the filter on. Drilling the base plate about 1/2" deep and screwing in a piece of threaded aluminum pipe with the same threads as the filter.

Do you guys think that this would work? And does anybody know what kind of threads are on the Cat filter.

Thanks

type53b_gtd:
I'm not sure what the benefit would be to installing a different filter, but it would seem to me that it would be much easier to acquire a filter mount from either a wrecker that deals in large trucks, or to get one from a hydraulic/farm equipment supply store.

The Biodiesel guys have got the supplemental filter thing down pat, so maybe one of them will chime in here...

farkman:
I want a different filter on my car because the stock one only filters in the 7-15 micron range, I think. The Cat filter is a 2 micron filter. Also my car has died a few times on the road because the plastic piece on the fuel inlet line that contacts the filter body sometimes wiggles a bit and starts drawing in air. So I have to stop and fill up the filter with some of the fuel additive stuff I have so I can get going. I would rather make this myself too, I think it would pretty cool. Plus the cost for the materials would only be about $20-25. I wouldn't mind running biodiesel though, but from what I have read, the 1994 Golf's didn't come with fuel lines that are safe for biodiesel.

type53b_gtd:
Yes, sorry - a momentary lapse of reason on my part - I was thinking SVO, but my fingers heard biodiesel.

Blades:
Not safe for biodiesel ???

Very Safe.




Use an older VW Diesel fuel filter (without the white plastic piece hole).

Remove the plastic piece and just connect those two hoses together.

Note: Just don't use a pen like gropar did  :shock:

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