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1st Gen. Ram - All TopicsDiscussion for all Dodge Rams prior to 1994. This includes engine, drivetrain and non-drivetrain discussions. Anything prior to 1994 should go in here.
Thanks EDWINSMITH. That video was excellent and I am embarrassed to say that not recently but I have had Fram filters on my truck (not ever again). The filter theory just went up a notch.
I run Baldwin oil and fuel filters on my motor since we have lots of logging and mining equipment up north and they are readily available locally for really great prices. I do run one of the cheapy fram G2 clear in-line filters on my fuel line out of the tank and before my lift pump....just to catch anything big coming out of the tank.
Well I found more rust in my system, hopefully this is the end of it. The fuel filter nipple was rusted, very scary because this is after the filter. I ran a brush through the filter mount on the engine and found nothing. I am interested in upgrading my filter system but other than spending hundreds of dollars on a fancy remote system I don't see anything for our early trucks. So I will make one, I will start a new thread showing what I do. I couldn't get a good picture strait up so I used a remote camera. I wire brushed it out and then gave it a phosphoric acid bath to clean up anything left. I will drive a thousand miles and check for rust in the system again.
If that's the nipple for the fuel heater, you can unscrew it, and clean it properly. You'll need to replace the heater gasket, and the fsm wants green locktite on the threads, during replacement, or that's in the instructions from Cummins when you buy a new fuel heater.
Unfortunately I already have it put back together so I can't check to see if it is stainless. But maybe somebody that is doing a filter change could jump in here. I can say this, after I was done cleaning it up the bore was very clean and smooth. No sign that rust was ever there. For that amount of rust I would have thought that there would have been some pitting or something. But if it is stainless then why would the rust be there at all? I just hope that this is the end of the rust problem.
Misconception on stainless is that it will never rust....maybe some very pure forms do not, but most SS will still rust just at a very very slow rate, at least that is what I have heard and read.....
Misconception on stainless is that it will never rust....maybe some very pure forms do not, but most SS will still rust just at a very very slow rate, at least that is what I have heard and read.....
I do not remember witch alloy numbers are magnetic ( 304, or 316, and others), but the quick and dirty way to check if the stainless will rust is if a magnet will stick to it, it will rust but reeealllly slowly. if a magnet will NOT stick to the stainless, it ain`t going to rust in our life time.
I bought Good quality (or so I thought) manual salt spreader from Meyer. Over $ 300 USD.
It was all stainless, and it began rusting after the first year of salt application during winter. It is a Chinese produced salt spreader. I'm not terribly surprised
Unfortunately I already have it put back together so I can't check to see if it is stainless. But maybe somebody that is doing a filter change could jump in here. I can say this, after I was done cleaning it up the bore was very clean and smooth. No sign that rust was ever there. For that amount of rust I would have thought that there would have been some pitting or something. But if it is stainless then why would the rust be there at all? I just hope that this is the end of the rust problem.
Are you sure that it is rust and not some out of this universe crud that was formed by the unholy alliance of other sub-crud invaders?...Mark
12-30-2018, 08:35 PM
