fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! July 26, 2006, 10:02:42 PM For some stupid reason I have a stang strainer on from when I swapped out the stock one with a 190 stang pump Like 10 years ago when I was a rookie shade-tree mechanic. Anyway I'm looking to put the tbird strainer back cause when the fuel gets below 5-6 gallons now I pretty much "run out of gas" under hard acceleration and on strong cornering. I found a picture of one from napa online I just don't remember it looking like this. I thought it was more of a point on the bottom. Was wondering if anyone has ever used this one and if it picks up good under low fuel situations (which happens alot for me now at $3.25 gallon ) I got the 22 gallon tank in the bird not sure if this makes a difference.I want to swap this out now cause I usually have about $15 of unusable gas at any given time LOLheres the napa link and a picturehttp://www.napaonline.com/masterpages/NOLMaster.aspx?PageId=470&LineCode=BSH&PartNumber=N68014&Description=Fuel+Pump+Strainer Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #1 – July 26, 2006, 11:47:53 PM I just put that in my car (along with a new pump and fuel sending unit).. I dont even think I had a gallon in there and it made it around the block, to a friends house, and then to the gas station. So it should be good. Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #2 – July 27, 2006, 01:21:17 AM cool thanks for the reply matt, I didn't feel like dropping the tank to change it but this is getting annoying now. Where you get your from? Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #3 – July 27, 2006, 02:02:04 AM I just recently put that one into a cougar not too long ago. You can get them at autozone on the cheap. Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #4 – July 27, 2006, 02:04:56 AM . For some reason I remember mine being longer than that. Then again, my car is CFI. But from '85+ they used the same fuel pump as the SEFI cars. They ditched that 2-pump, lift + push system after '84 and went to a single pump.EDIT: Meh, I just looked one up on Partsamerica.com for my car and it shows one that's basically identical to the one you showed. I've dropped three tanks from three different cars, 2 '84's and an '85 and I could swear I remember them being longer than that, but I guess they aren't. Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #5 – July 27, 2006, 09:49:51 AM Did this problem just start or has it been that way since you put in the strainer? If not I'd bet the metal piece inside the tank that keeps the gas from sloshing around all over the place has come loose. I had that problem in my jeep. Also I know the one on my 84 intank pump is longer that the one you have pictured. The airtex part number for it is FS3, the delphi number is FS0057 hope this helps Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #6 – July 27, 2006, 10:00:42 AM I got mine from advanced auto. I bought it when I bought my new fuel pump. They were the only place that had the strainer.. I had to buy the pump at an Auto Zone, then go all the way to Advance Auto and buy the strainer..Heh, at Murrays they gave me a completly different size pump, and they didn't give me the rubber seating for it. Findind those parts were a pain lol.Edit: yea, my original strainer was completly different, and this one would not have fit on my old pump. Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #7 – July 27, 2006, 01:07:07 PM QuoteDid this problem just start or has it been that way since you put in the strainer?Yeah It's been like this for 10 years now. I just always had lots of gas in it more than 1/4.. I'm at the point now where I'm going around the car and just fixing stupid stuff that I didn't do right the first time around. So this was first on the list. Next I'll be fixing the hood release and one of my horns don't work so I'll do that too Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #8 – July 29, 2006, 12:25:20 PM Ok I got everything apart, I bought the new strainer in the above pics.My problem now is that the hole on the strainer is twice the size as the pump.Now What? Put it all back together and cry?? :( Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #9 – July 29, 2006, 06:28:56 PM Okay I figured it out. I must be the only person that is running an 10 year old-school FMS 190l/h in there fox tbird/cougar :)The picture below I found on some stangers site about changing a fuel pump. He says the pump on the right is his stocker and the pump on the left is the walbro 190l/h. My FMS 190l/h pump looks exactly like the stock stang pump in his picture. Looks like I need to buy a new fuel pump like the one on the left if I want to use the tbird pickup. WTF!! wish I knew all of this before I dropped the tank and put it all back together! Oh well just have to do it again once I get the new pumpThanks for the earlier replys :) Quote Selected
fuel pump strainer mystery solved!! Reply #10 – August 02, 2006, 10:39:11 PM Quote from: thunder306Okay I figured it out. I must be the only person that is running an 10 year old-school FMS 190l/h in there fox tbird/cougar :)The picture below I found on some stangers site about changing a fuel pump. He says the pump on the right is his stocker and the pump on the left is the walbro 190l/h. My FMS 190l/h pump looks exactly like the stock stang pump in his picture. Looks like I need to buy a new fuel pump like the one on the left if I want to use the tbird pickup. WTF!! wish I knew all of this before I dropped the tank and put it all back together! Oh well just have to do it again once I get the new pumpThanks for the earlier replys :)I just drilled the stock strainer for the larger size on my old 88 5.0 Quote Selected
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