no doubt. something fell out of another truck I was following and couldn't swerve. It bounced around and I felt it hit under my truck. It broke the filter. Sprayed diesel everywhere.
i feel for you. I started out replacing the rear shocks, found a frozen brake caliper, and now i just found a broken leaf spring. I'm trying to put her back together
I guess the good thing is that it forces me to do my final upgrade which is the complete fuel system with bigger lines and what not.
I had the stock fuel bowl just fitted under the truck with bigger lines then factory with dual stockers.... but now I'm going to even bigger lines and 2 filter bases pre then post pump filters....
marty, why not go to one big pump like a fuel lab? that way you dont have to plumb in two different pumps. i ran 2 stockers in parallel and in series, they wont keep fuel pressure up. after talking to charles, he says the fuel lab at 1/2 speed will support his 64x rwhp so thats good enough for me...
It'll stay in the Drag3b file.... my luck HAS to change, doesn't it?
haha.
Luke, I like the idea of having 2 pumps. If nothing else I might end up getting a pump like the fuel lab, walboro, etc... and plumb that in with one of the stockers. In case one goes out I'm not stranded. I have a fuel pressure gauge so if the pressure drops with the larger lines, I know where to turn to.
Been that way ever since I bought the very first turbo.... the TN BB.
5 turbo's, 3 injector sets, 2 motors, 1 built transmission and all the other one-off's have added up to way more then the truck was purchased for initially :doh:
I hope the dual pump setup works for you, it was just a huge pita for me. if your running one pump to each head and returning through 1 reg id suggest putting some type of check valve infront of each pump that way if one quits it wont backfeed through the dead pump.
Marty a big pump will not leave you stranded. I drove from the north side of Somerset PA back to Morgantown with 0 fuel pressure. The pump was locked up.
The larger line is only needed pre-pump, where the only pressure you have to push the fuel through the line is atmospheric. Post pump the pressure will be over 5 times what it is pre-pump. Requiring less line size to support adequate flow.
Although, one thing to note, is that the 5/8" (-10) suction line from tank to filter has more flowable area than the two 3/8" (-6) lines from filter to pumps combined.
Both -6 lines together would still only support 71% of the flow the 5/8" line ahead of the filter would.
Although the -10 pickup should support more flow than required anyway, so it is not a case of the -6 lines being undersized, but of the pickup being oversized. Which is obviously not a bad thing. There's really no such thing as oversized on a suction line.
This just confirms my concerns for the 4 filters hanging under my truck. Since I use my trucks for hunting and light off roading I have been looking at ways to relocate or shield the filters to prevent exactly what happened to you
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