Particle size and pressure are different. You want to spend a thousand
bucks to rebuild a diesel fuel injection pump -- save $25 on your fuel
filters and you'll have a good shot at it.

And count your blessings if you're in the developed world. Fuel filter life
in the third world is much shorter than here, because there's a lot more
stuff in the fuel. The record low on our circumnav was ten hours on a
filter -- or why we had three filters in line....
--
Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com


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"Gfretwell" wrote in message
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It occurred to me the other day as I was shelling out almost $30 for a
spin on
fuel filter that this thing looks suspiciously like a $2.99 oil filter.
Other
than the threading on the base, what is the difference? You cut one open
and
they certainly look like the same stuff inside. It also has nothing to do
with
the can itself since Perko fuel filter are made from mild steel that rusts
up
very quickly if you don't paint them. I prime and paint mine before I
install
them and still don't get a year out of one before it starts bleeding rust
from
somewhere.