C10CJ: A Pro-touring '71 Stepside on a No Limit Pro-C10 Chassis

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Got the fuel filter plumbed up last night, but not mounted. Bent the existing 3/8" fuel lines and cut up the front section a little to fit the filter in. I left the double flare union so I have a short length of line I can remove in order to get the filter out without having to loosen the whole fuel system up. My trouble now is I need a compact drill to get into the chassis between the rail and center bridge to drill and tap the holes for the filter mount, but all I have are giant old school 18v DeWalt drills! They are almost as long as that area is wide! Doh!

And I may wind up needing to make a heat shield since this filter is so big and I'm guessing will be about 1-1.5" from the exhaust pipe. TBD on that, but some thin 26 ga steel will do wonders to keep the heat at bay.

Here is a before and after shot showing the whole area I modified. For reference the before shot is linked in from post #104.



A little closer up on the front section. After cutting the front, I made 4 bends to get the tube to hit the filter. I used -6 hardline fittings (with a 37 deg flare, not the compression ones) to hook up to the filter.


A little closer on the back. I only put 2 bends in the tube otherwise didn't do anything else. Just flipped on the one clamp you see there. The other side of the union (filter side) is just the portion of the forward section I cut off, not mod's here. I got lucky that it lined up so I left it all alone.