Does anyone have the parts number for the Baldwin 5 micron fuel filter. I've been using PF7777, but the gentlemen at the Heavy Duty Truck Parts Store where I purchased them had no idea what it was, he made a phone call to someone, hangs-up the phone, then starts saying something about a 5 to 11 micron, then said he was confused. Help anyone?

 

Baldwin P/N PF7977

MikeyB

 

Wow, if anyone is offended by the replies, or the awesome joke about Prince, who was formerly the performer known formerly as Prince but is now reknown as Prince again....

Then you have a great life with no real worries

Micron is a measure of size, being one millionth of a meter, or 1/1000 of a millimeter ( please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm an old school measurement man, who measures using yards, feet, inches, sixteenths and then 'blondes' or 'brunettes', if you know what I mean then hats off to you!! )

Anyway, you get the finer particles out when your filter is designed to remove paticles sized to 3 microns verses one that just filters out 10 microns.

There is a downside of course.... There are lots and lots of 3, 4, 6, 8 micron particles in your fuel. Catching all these particles will fill the filter media much faster than if you let them slip by.

Do you need to filter them out? I'm not that smart . Maybe the 4 micron particles will pass through the injectors like dust through a garden hose, maybe not.

So your decision is: Pay more for a tighter filter, change it more often and sleep the sleep of babes; or use the stock filter and spend more time worrying about how to stop continental drift.

Good luck.

 

I recommended a 7 micron filter with a little play on words.

You derailed the thread, dodged the swear filter, and called me stupid. Awesome!

 

hahahahahaahahha

 

Now that I am done laughing thru this thread, I will add that I use the 7 micron Fleetguard from Geno's and have not had any issues.

 

Thank You, Mikey B

 

I'm sorry, but HOV's post had me laughing all of yesterday and today. There is nothing wrong with having a little fun, and he did in fact answer wreed's question. I didn't see it as a bad thing...