Gas in Oil!?

[hack_man]

You mentioned a glass fuel filter- get rid of that pronto. They are famous for cracking and starting engine fires.

I also learned the hard way never use plastic fuel filters, always get the metal can. I drove my truck to the garage for its yearly emission test with gas spurting under the hood as I drove into the shop. I was so lucky it didn't start an engine fire. I replaced it with a metal one in the parking lot and will never use a plastic one again.

 

[Tonimus]

What was the engine condition? Higher rpm with higher crankcase pressure and more oil flow, the pump instead of pushing fuel in, was sucking oil out from the same path.

No, it had to be loaded up. 3k rpm in neutral wouldn’t do anything. Engine runs great. Has a properly functioning PCV system too.

 

[YakkoWarner]

I also learned the hard way never use plastic fuel filters, always get the metal can. I drove my truck to the garage for its yearly emission test with gas spurting under the hood as I drove into the shop. I was so lucky it didn't start an engine fire. I replaced it with a metal one in the parking lot and will never use a plastic one again.

Can you get just a generic metal can filter with a simple barb on each end? My current British project has the glass filter (and currently only gets run from a boat tank). I want to swap it with a metal filter. Without knowing an "application specific" part number finding just a generic has been tricky.

 

[hack_man]

Mine was something like this gas filter, just not the exact same PN
Yes metal generic can with simple barb on each end

The problem with plastic is over time it becomes brittle and cracks as I found out.

That was the second time I brought my truck in for an emission inspection and I was told to get the $H$$!! out of the shop. The first time it was exhausting such a high level of hydrocarbons it stunk up the shop and choked everyone while running the tail pipe sniff test, the second time it was dumping out raw gas from the busted filter.

Evidently my truck does not like to be smog tested and feels the need to retaliate

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