Ford 3000 backflush filter

[galah3]

Not sure I have the name right but backflush filter is leaking and drippping fuel onto the manifold... worried I might start a bushfire!

Anyone know where I can get one? Local dealer says doesn't know where to get one.

It is the litle cylinder just near the fuel tank that takes excess fuel back from the engine and drops it back into the fuel tank just inside the top of the fuel tank just below the cap.

Merry Christmas as its Christmas Eve here.

galah

 

[RickB]

It is the fuel reservior for the Thermostart system. Later tractors didn't use the reservior, the identical Thermostart unit in the intake manifold simply used the fuel stored in a dedicated return fuel line. You can remove the little tank and replace it with tubing.

 

[banjodunn]

As rickb said pull it off and rturn the fuel straight back into the tank never seen one over here that needs a thermostart unit to fire it up. Welcome to TBN and a very merry christmas to you hope you are not up in qld with the rain there expecting up there, we have had enough down here ( western vic) but cant fathom what it would be like to expect 24" in a week


Jon

 

[galah3]

Thanks banjodunn and RickB
I'm in central VIC and cool today.
I know very little about engines. Will I need to bleed air out afterwards? Do I need a metal tube to fill the gap? Doesnt sound like something I can do better get back to the local tractor place then.

 

[banjodunn]

G'day mate no need for the local bloke to do it just unscrew the pipes going into/out of the canister and remove the pipe from the fuel tank take this into your local repco etc and get some fuel line that is a nice neat fit and a couple of hose clamps to suit and there you go, just make sure you get enough to go about an inch (25mm) down the steel line plus the gap in the middle. Where in central Vic are you i am in Ararat


Jon