Deisel filter work with gasoline?

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Alright, I'm sick of ethanol falling out of suspension on my gravity feed garden tractors when they sit and needing a fuel flush every few months.

Found some marine units with a 10micron filter and a plastic bowl below that with a quick purge valve to dump accumulated water and "muck" as the ad says.

My question is, would this holdup to gasoline exposure?

The old glass bowl units are about the same price but don't have a mount for soft lines.... I can fab them but would rather just bolt them up.
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I have a '60 Ford car that had a dirty/corroded gas tank. I pressure washed the tank several times and got it fairly clean but not good enough. Between the
rear axle and fuel tank I mounted an engine oil filter(one without a check valve) and a diesel fuel filter Like the one you pictured. Mine works good and I also use
100% gasoline.
 
Thanks guys, this is just a gravity feed system. I just didn't want to come out to find the plastic bowl melted from the ethanol.
 
I have yet to find a plastic that alcohol would melt. It's what I use to degrease questionable plastics. On filter media I'd find the size of a
water molecule and get a filter with a mesh smaller than that. Diesel molecules are tiny and gasoline probably tinier.

Gold Bond (I think is the name for the popular filter) has a water "absorbing" filter for their inline fuel dispenser cannisters. Don't know the
particulars on just what it does, how it works, nor it's particulate size restriction limit, but the data is probably out there.
 
Most diesel filters are designed to be run under the pressure of a pump, so a gravity fed system might not have enough pressure to get the required flow, but the only way to know for sure is to test it I guess.
 
On the Ford, and Massey Ferguson that used the CAV type filters some of the Fords like my 1971 4500 used gravity feed only while MF had a lift pump before the filter.
 

Could you simply put a tee fitting in a low point in your fuel line. On the branch of the tee fitting (pointing down) put a clear line 6 - 12 inches long with a valve at the end of it. Simply open the valve every now and then and drain a sample of fuel in a glass jar.

You can inspect the fuel in the jar and discard it if contaminated. I have run E-10 in my 8N since about 2002. I have yet to find ethanol/water in the glass sediment bowl. I takes a significant amount of water for the ethanol to drop out.
 
This is on my garden tractor (73 Simplicity with a 16hp Briggs single). The 9N never has a problem and it sits out in the weather too.... however it doesn't have an exposed gascap.

I like the idea of a T-trap like in my airlines, good suggestion.

OR, maybe I can convince the wife I need to build a shed big enough to cover everything :)
 
(quoted from post at 10:19:51 03/20/18) On the Ford, and Massey Ferguson that used the CAV type filters some of the Fords like my 1971 4500 used gravity feed only while MF had a lift pump before the filter.

1965-1975 4000 series, including the 4500, that had diesel engines, had a transfer pump built into the end of the CAV injection pump. There was no separate lift pump, but there was a transfer pump before the main injector pump.
 
(quoted from post at 16:46:30 03/20/18)
(quoted from post at 10:19:51 03/20/18) On the Ford, and Massey Ferguson that used the CAV type filters some of the Fords like my 1971 4500 used gravity feed only while MF had a lift pump before the filter.

1965-1975 4000 series, including the 4500, that had diesel engines, had a transfer pump built into the end of the CAV injection pump. There was no separate lift pump, but there was a transfer pump before the main injector pump.



It should still be able to work by gravity feed (and that's what I get for posting when I first wake up LOL).
 

I also, have a lawn tractor with an exposed gas cap. I sealed the vent in the cap and installed a right angle brass fitting in the top of the fuel tank, hidden from view under the hood. From the fitting I run hose down below the engine. You will need to leave vapor space above the fuel level (at maximum fill) or it will spit out fuel when operating.

Some times I put a valve in the vent line and close it when not in use. If you have a shut off valve before the carb this gives you a sealed system.

Other times I have put an empty tuna can upside over the gas cap.
 
I don't eat tuna....

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I think I'll try this cheap little filter out and change gas caps.
 

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