I know where it's supposed to be, at least I thought I did, but I took off my air cleaner and for the life of me I can't find it. Enclosed are pictures of the engine bay.

 

Well hers a pic of my engine (Hope it works) you can see the glass fuel filter (Its now a bigger clear plasice one) in the fuel line in the right corner of the pic. I know its a different set up with the carb but hope it helps

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Hmm, looks like it's going to be different on mine. If it helps I have the thunder series 1813 800cfm Carb from edelbrock.

 

yeah i have a 650cfm holly Double pumper so it most likely be different but i am sure the origonal fuel filter position should be similar

 

Not familiar with your carb but did you remove the fitting where the gas goes in? The Q-jet has either a sintered bronze (aka stone) or pleated paper filter that's spring loaded so that if it clogs, it doesn't shut you down.

IMO you are both playing with fire (literally) with hoses on the pressure side of the fuel system unless it's the new FI hose used on today's vehicles. There was a good reason GM used steel tubing w/ double flares. Keeps your car from catching fire. []

 

Thanks for the info about the hoses I actually didnt know that they were origonally steel tubing

 

Thats looks like an Edlebrock Performer carb. There great, I have one on my truck. They dont come with a filter in them like the Q jets. You have to put one in the line. If you want to be fancy and spend about $40 or so Edlebrock makes a fuel filter kit for it. It's a steel line that screw into the inlet and has a 90 deg bend and goes under the linkage and has a removable filter on the end. Then hook the fuel line to that.

 

Here is a common location for the fuel filter. NOTE - DO NOT USE GLASS FILTERS like you see in this picture. They are known to break and cause fires, this one has been replaced with a metal canister fuel filter.

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DeeVee,
Is that small metal Edelbrock item on your Mickey Thompson valve cover nota "breather?" It reminds me of the hot late '60s engines in everyone's cars in high school and just after. And remember the "filler/breather" cap on the valve cover? The ones w/ the steel wool in them. LOL That cap was also on the filler tubes of the 283s, when the valve covers were solid. I remember them in my brother's and afew other guy's '57 Chevies that had a283 in them. They were the runningcars in those days. Now I look back and think about that BIG car w/ that SMALL V8 in it, even the worked ones...LOL
And that's a really good looking motor. I especially like the "old Chevy orange paint" and the fuel pressure gauge. It sounds stupid now to me, but I remember being quite annoyed when the small block Chevy turned that ugly blue. As I said before, I built a 350, I believe it was a 1980 block,for my '62 Impala in '83, and I painted it "Chevy Orange." To me, that was the "REAL" color of the Chevy engine. How VERY close-minded and what a trip I was back then.LOL I now feel that a person needs to change w/ the times if they want to live long and happy. Thanks for the memories.

(My father's middle name was "Devee." How did you come up w/ that User Nmae?)

 

I sense a possible star wars moment!