Easy drive pressure gauge filter

Rich, what brand of filter are you using? I bought this filter from Carquest since I am using drive pressure to control my VGT, and it seems to be letting some soot through.. When it does this it keeps my housing closed and makes it a lot harder for my wastegate actuator to open the housing. I am not sure if it will make much of a difference from one brand to the next, but for $6 its worth a shot.

Brett
 
I honestly don't remember and I'm nowhere near the truck to look.
 
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what are you guys using for tubing after the filter, going to the gauge? i was using the white colored tubing, and it melted off the filter the other day.. ive got about 10' of copper tubing from the manifold to the filter too..
 
weazel said:
a leak? maybe inside the filter itself?
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I would say after the filter or the filter. If it is "air tight" you shouldn't be having hot gas travel up the tube, but with a leak, the hot gas will travel up the tube.
 
ok, thanks man, ill check it out and see whats up with it..
 
I'd like to find a way to try to keep the moisture out of mine. I am using drive pressure to control a VGT turbo and the water seems to be making it hard to move..
 
bna5017 said:
I'd like to find a way to try to keep the moisture out of mine. I am using drive pressure to control a VGT turbo and the water seems to be making it hard to move..
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I had water pool in the bottom of my copper coil and freeze on me... So I put a T in the very bottom, added an inch or two of line, then put a valve on the end of that and drain it once in a while :Cheer:

HA! Purolator is the brand I sell at work... :D
 
Can someone verify the part number? I have been to autozone twice and it doesn't have a 3/8" NPT on the female end.
 
If you are still having problems with fluttering guages pressure spikes during operation Parker company makes a pressure snubber. We use these in the high pressure gas industry work well on issues like this I did use them for mine and had to add them when I went to transducers for data loging.
Here's a link to parker they come in many piping configurations tube to tube or mpt or fpt of a combo of both. They also make great inline tube filters as well. There are also other brands out there.


Thttp://www.parker.com/portal/site/PARKER/menuitem.de7b26ee6a659c147cf26710237ad1ca/?vgnextoid=fcc9b5bbec622110VgnVCM10000032a71dacRCRD&vgnextdiv=687505&vgnextcatid=1537973&vgnextcat=GF++PRESSURE+SNUBBER+VALVE&Wtky=&vgnextfmt=ENhey
 
I don't remember the part number, but I got mine from Carquest and it has NPT threads on each end. I just told them to get me a fuel filter for like an 86 F150 with a straight six in it.. So maybe try Carquest, if you don't have one near you I can swing by mine on Saturday morning and get the part number.
 
I looked at 3 filters one including the 86 f150. Are you guys really putting the screws to get the 3/8NPT into the female threads?
 
Someone show me a pick of a guage what pressure should i expect to see? Is this the same as a boost guage?
 
It IS a boost gauge. It should ideally run 1:1 with your actual boost gauge. Less drive than boost is even better...more drive isn't bad...untill it starts getting way outta whack. Like 70drive/60boost is still decent....100drive/60boost ain't so good. LOL
 
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