Thread: Black Fuel Strainer

Hi All,

I've had some severe surging up hills recently in my 4bd1-t powered 110, so this afternoon I decided to check "that annoying strainer" in the fuel banjo of the IP inlet. Must have picked up some dodgy diesel because it was chock a block with crap but the interesting thing was that when I've cleaned it out in the past there has been stuff caught in it but other than that it was clean.. This time it had black gunk in it. I couldn't smell anything about it other than diesel.

After getting most of it off with a tooth brush I put some paper through it and you can see how much black stuff was still there! the strainer itself had gone black and changed colour when cleaned!

When I last replaced the main fuel filter (2000 km ago) the old main filter was visually clean.

After being cleaned it is going great again, but I'm interested in what it may have been?

bugger.

thanks