Well, the Yellow Peril was running nearly perfectly when Ben took it over
to a school to recruit for a youth ministry this noon but by this afternoon,
it was acting up and so I put the gauge back on it to find that pressure was
dropping to 10 psig or lower under power. So I guess we have already plugged
the NEW filter with fine rust.

Next step (probably Monday) will be to empty and remove the tank and get it
cleaned over at the radiator shop. Hopefully that will return us to a world
of reality operation.

Would have been just as bad (perhaps differently) with carbs, I imagine.
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US

George,
don't forget to replace/blow out really really well the steel line that runs from the tank under the car. It loves to keep all the crap from the tank and give it back when you least expect it. :) Drove me nuts on the 1800
-Erik

Good point. Maybe I'll spray it back with carb cleaner. On mine, the filter
is BEFORE that line, however.
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US

Devil's advocate time... I'm just excited to do a carb (to carbs) swap this weekend... more on that later.

If you had carbs on there, you could remove that inline filter and back blow it out in the street and re0install it before the light turns green.

One of many lessons learned (and many times practiced) as a career pizza schlepper.

-Matt
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-Matt '70 145s, '65 1800s, '66 122s wagon, others inc. '53 XK120 FHC

I did that once in the jungle much to my passenger's amazement. He was a
Japanese Colonel in the US Army. His father was fishing in Pearl Harbor
when they dropped the bombs. We were out hunting orchids in the 122 wagon,
about 25 miles from civilization.
Actually I did that in "Righteous", the white 164 that I stored in Charleston,
SC when I lived in Panama. We were out in the middle of Rocky Mountain National
Park about 25 miles out of Estes Park and had just tanked up with gas
contaminated with grain alcohol, which washed a bunch of brown gorpy stuff.
Wife, 2 daughters, son-in-law Andy and 2 grandkids in the car when it quit.
Andy and I diagnosed and fixed the problem beside the road, getting about a
handful of stuff out of it. Problem didn't recur in that car.

I think there is enough stuff in the yellow peril's tank that we have no
choice, carbs or not. Filters seem to hold more than ½cupful and to plug
one in less than an hour.... Can't afford much of that!
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US

The problem is that these tanks are baffled, there'e ahem interesting to get clean!


Regards


Pete

"The problem is that these tanks are baffled..."

Maybe you should rephrase the question then.
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Justin 66 122E
Read vclassics tech!

The guy at the radiator shop cleaned my 122 tank OK and it is bafflingly
baffled also. Clean! No bafflegab! And it was contaminated by the same
gasoline. (After I drained it out of the Yellow Peril I was too Scottish
to just pour it out and it was too smelly to use cleaning parts.)
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US

George,
I went thru a long learning curve on this clogging with a '73 142. The tank was really rusty and kept clogging the filter at the bottom of the pickup line in the tank. Go maybe 2 miles then die. Wait a minute or two an it was good for another 2 miles, etc.

I finally replaced the tank with a nice used one from Hirsch in Phoenix, but somewhere in all this I was told by some former Volvo tech that Volvo recommended removing that pickup filter. So I have 2 new ones as souvenirs.

Bruce
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Bruce Young
'93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.

The pickup filter is already removed on this one. The one that is plugging
is right in front of the gas tank, behind the center section. It is about
3¼"in diameter.
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US

Just a thought George, when I had problems with crap in my tank I used a see through plastic filter so that I could see when there was stuff in it. Of course in dem dere new fangly auto mobiles maybe the pressure is too high for a plastic fitler of this type. I wouldn't know as I HAVE CARBS ON MY OLD VOLVO! (he he)

Other than this one my newest Volvo is a 69.....

Seriously I have considered doing that on the inlet side of the pump,
but since I am getting the tank cleaned it may be sort of locking the
horseless barn. Of course you can get a lot more through a clogged filter
with 28 psi than you can with gravity flow or atmospheric pressure.
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US

George,
After I banged the dents out of my 142E's tank I expected to get a lot of junk, that the famous baffles wouldn't let me get at, to come out -- I had already destroyed the pick-up strainer in an effort to clean it. So, I put a plastic, see-through filter between the tank and the pump. The first one filled up with junk after the first two tank-fulls. Didn't block the flow, though. The second one is still picking up rust flakes, but at a slower rate. When that one is good and dirty I'll replace it with one of those fancy see-through filters with the chromed metal ends -- not for looks, but because they are sturdier than the throw-away plastic type, which I am concerned about being damaged by road debris. Furthermore, the filter element can be taken out and cleaned or replaced which, at that point, I hope, will only need to be done infrequently.
Bob S.

That is pretty much my plan also but I will have the radiator shop clean
mine first. They did a good job on my 122 wagon tank, which was also bafflingly
baffled. Didn't baffle or buffalo them!

Many thanks!
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George Downs, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Central US