Two fuel filters

[dazzadazz]

Has any body install a secondary fuel filter to a 3ltr TD, as i have had fuel contamination problems and am looking at heading up north and out west in the near future. If so where did you install it and what brand, and do you have dual batterys

[Skog07]

Gday Dazzadazz.
Mate I have a glass bowl water separator installed on mine. Its surprising how much gunk and crap comes through. It has a strainer in it that seems to filter out the larger particles.
Here is a link to the thread.
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=790
BCH has a prefilter fitted before the fuel filter.
Another good one is BJ 343 who has a water watch system from coomadiesel
www.coomadiesel.com.au
Cheers
Skog

[dazzadazz]

Thanks for the reply. Im heading down to the snow in August so i might pop in and check them out. www.coomadiesel.com.au

[bansheebuzz]

i do work for a company on the gold coast that sell ex sargent vehicles, all sargent vehicles are fitted with a 2nd genuine filter housing but it is fitted where the 2nd battery would normally be fitted

[Quinny34]

I've just done it... I used a delphi 296 filter with glass bowl, $10 to replace the element, Will have pics shortly on my build up thread... $110 including 1 way valve and hose fittings...

[Trini_hilux]

I added a cheap gasoline filter (for a carb engine) before the diesel filter. It catches almost all of the gunk and water. And it only costs USD$1 to change.

[MauricioMontenegro]

The RACOR prefilter is a good choice, here the pics from http://www.toyoteros.com.ar, our partner fgamio has instaled a RACOR 500FG in his truck.

PARKER RACOR Australian Distribiutors
http://www.parker.com/portal/site/PARKE ... trefresh=1

[Quinny34]

Why did you bolt it onto that side......???

[9W6VX]

Quinny,

They drive on the other side of the road............... it's a left hand drive.

[MauricioMontenegro]

Why did you bolt it onto that side......???

We have no sufficient space yn the other side.

Quinny,

They drive on the other side of the road............... it's a left hand drive.

We drive seated in left side, but the engine configuration is the same that you

[Quinny34]

Roger!

[9W6VX]

Quinny,

[ALFY]

I just fitted the water watch system from cooma diesel. I have dual battery fitted also so i ended up making a custom bracket which bolts to the pirhana battery tray and carries the second filter and also the engine computer. Ill try get some pics up when i get a chance.

[buggerlux]

I have a friend who had a 06 diesel up North. He had major fuel issues. Fitted more filters and ended up selling the Hilux after 9 months. Probably a crap diesel supplier but too much grief for him.

In his words

The 10 Micron one I added upstream of the OEM 2 micron unit, did a fine job of removing 95% of the crap in my late model Hilux. That left the 2 micron one to remove the very fine stuff that was left, and prevented fuel starvation of the main fuel pump.

[tonymtber]

The RACOR prefilter is a good choice, here the pics from http://www.toyoteros.com.ar, our partner fgamio has instaled a RACOR 500FG in his truck.

PARKER RACOR Australian Distribiutors
http://www.parker.com/portal/site/PARKE ... trefresh=1

Hi Mauro,

I gather your engine bay configuration is the same as ours....so does your factory fuel filter still sit on the LHS next to the battery (which Im guessing it does)? So you ran a fuel line behind the engine to the RHS of the engine bay to the new filter & then ran the return fuel line back to the LHS to feed into the factory filter?

The reason Im asking is that I want to fit a second filter as well, but with my aux battery I have limited room on the LHS, but a heap of free space behind the air filter on the RHS. I was a bit concerned about running fuel lines behind the engine due to heat.

Has anyone else done what I'm suggesting?

Tony

[BCH]

there are some extensive posts & discussions on "CAUTION - Fuel & Filter Warning".