Old Leafsprung Land Rovers

Evening.

I have been running my 2286 petrol with in line fuel filters as I had an endless supply of them.

However I am becoming convinced that they are not helping the thing run as sweet as it can. It does seem to run better without one.

I have a Zenith carb, the lift pump is in good fettle. I just think that they are restricting the fuel flow, particularly at low revs.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Haven't had  drama with them and my SU

After seeing the **** that my filter has stopped I will be keeping mine. Especially after spending £100 odd quid getting my carb sorted. Also means I can see when fuel is getting up when hand pumping (vapour lock issues)

In my experience as long as they're good quality and regularly checked the little inline filters are OK. I've had one poor quality ebay one drop in half on me, I think the fuel dissolved the glue holding the thing together 

I also read somewhere of one causing running issues. When the car was initially started it would run fine for 5 mins and then cut out. It turned out that the filter was fine initially but once fuel started flowing the paper element would swell restricting the flow of fuel.

The standard original glass bowl type AC fuel pump does a pretty good job of filtering the fuel without any help, however the later type without the bowl and electric pumps do need a filter. When I fitted an electric pump to the ambulance I got a glass bowl filter from somewhere, Holden I think it was. The Solex carb has an additional gauze in the fuel inlet union which is nice, sadly lesser carbs don't have this. Can't say I'm a fan of those plastic inline things.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I am going to run without one now. I will pull the pick up out of the tank just to check the gauze, but as it is running so well at the moment I don't think there is a problem in the fuel system.