Man I wish it was a Subaru then I could just drive it instead of work on it all the time! 🤣
Huge thanks to
@Die Blaue Ziege for helping me pull the bed off.
Well this morning I did the hutch and harpoon mods to the fuel tank. The fuel pickup and return are inside of a chamber. This chamber has filters inside of it—inside the tank… dumb dumb dumb. I pulled the chamber apart and to my surprise I found the filters have already been gutted.
That said it still had the chamber and that is a great place to introduce air into the fuel pickup. The return swirls fuel and feeds the pickup if that makes sense. 7.3’s have a dead head fuel system and you don’t want air in that or it hammers through the injectors.
I pulled the chamber out. Added a drop and pointed the return and pickup in opposite directions.
You can see the black umbrella for the pickup, most 7.3’s have this piece lying in the bottom of the fuel tank. It gets brittle, breaks off so if your truck runs out of fuel at around a 1/4 tank you’ll know why.
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