Thanks, Tom.
I originally had really big plans & ideas for my truck, like an intercooler, bigger injectors, chip/tuner, & such. I began laying down the foundation, then the green '97 5-speed I had got hit & totalled out. I bought that truck from the insurance co., and yanked some parts off it to put on my new "pink" colored E4OD '97. Not long after I got some of the goodies onto the "new" '97 truck, I kinda got sidetracked, and was having more fun riding dirt bikes & racing mx with old guys. I simply wanted a truck to haul my travel trailer & dirt bikes around at that point. Getting tired of chasing fuel leaks in the oem stuff, and changing mechanical fuel pumps, I decided to get an electric pump installed, like I'd planned on doing years ago......
I have only one fuel tank, a 33 gallon Bronco tank, from the Bronco Graveyard. My old fuel selector switch/valve got plugged up & trashed after a fill up from a truck stop in Baker City, OR. They gave me a little bit of #2 fuel, and a LOT of rust. It was cheaper to get the 33 gallon tank than to buy a new tank selector switch. It also simplified my fuel loop. I have a 5/8" pickup in the tank, going out of the tank to -10 (5/8" i.d.) Aeroquip Push-Lock hose. From there it goes to the Webb VorMax dual filter setup.The Webb VorMax is off a class 8 otr setup. I'm not certain if they're sold anymore. It has a water separator, with a clear bowl on it. It basically separates some really dispicable slime & water/gunk from the fuel, and will filter down to the size of, small gravel, maybe. It's basically a tricked out sediment bowl. From there, my fuel goes into a Fleetguard FS1000 fuel filter/water separator. That filter is good down to 10 microns, I believe. This much is all accomplished just on the VorMax filter head. More Aeroquip hose (-8, or 1/2" i.d.) carries fuel a feet away to another Fleetguard filter head. That few feet of room between the two filter heads gives plenty of room for an electric pump, and it allows some "Pre-filtering" of the fuel before it gets to the pump. One of my biggest marvels is how Ford figured a setup where unfiltered fuel goes to the fuel pump is a "Good Thing"????
My second filter screens junk out down to 2 microns. I forget the Fleetguard p/n, but the thing is like 9" or so long. The whole setup is supposed to be good for 100K mile filter change intervals, but I do it once a year anyways.....
From the 2nd filter to the injectors is fairly standard, I guess. I used -6 (3/8" i.d.) aeroquip hose along the frame rail, up to the last chunk of factory stainless line, where I have a flareless fitting to connect my hose to that line. From the front part of the frame up to the engine, I use the stock stainless steel line. It feeds to a Summit Racing Y-Block fitting. That Y-fitting splits into 2 steel 5/16" hard lines I bent, and into the back of the heads. The unused fuel goes into my Aeromotive adjustable bypass regulator, which I think is a model 13109, but I can't recall exactly right now.... Then the fuel goes back to the tank.
There's a lot messed up in my fuel system, from a performance standpoint. You can basically only flow what the smallest opening will give ya, and those 1/8"-27 NPT inlets into each head don't allow a very large fuel line to be used. But like I said, out-and-out performance isn't my goal here, anymore. I plumbed in the Carter SD replacement pump between the filters, necking stuff down to 5/16", like the pump uses, and then back up to 3/8" after leaving the 2 micron filter. Oh well..... It'll flow plenty enough for me, and hopefully be reliable, leak less, and be easier to fix should a problem arise.
That's all I have so far. It's always in a constant state of tweaking, for reliabilty reasons, usually. I'm hoping the electric setup, and lack of leaks, will give me a little better running truck, and maybe a little better fuel mileage. And hopefully, maybe support a tuner or chip I wanna get soon, hee hee.......
Thanks again, Tom! And if my econo setup gives anyhone questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I know there are better systems on other guys' trucks out there, but maybe something I've done can help others, maybe.... Or, show them how NOT to do a fuel system, lol.....
Jimmie
