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I received information on my fuel pump that Ford is replacing on my 2000 SVT contour from a CEG member. I was told to tell them not to put this round filter disk on. Why? Please help. If they had already put it on is it to late to ask? I should be getting my car back today.
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Originally posted by dluv:
I received information on my fuel pump that Ford is replacing on my 2000 SVT contour from a CEG member. I was told to tell them not to put this round filter disk on. Why? Please help. If they had already put it on is it to late to ask? I should be getting my car back today.
I'd say you should DEFINITELY have it on there. i wouldn't want all that crap from my dirty ass tank gumming up my pump...
i'm about to drop my pump and clean out the screen... as soon as my new filter comes in...
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 Hmmm, that new pump has a much smaller intake filter area. This may mean it will clog or become restricted faster then the original. 
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The pump has a filter sock on it.
The bottom screen is a very poorly designed pre-screen for the pump. It is not required.
Not only that, but we use a plastic fuel cell that is 100% sealed and pressurized.
What would make it a "dirty ass tank"???
The only chance any airborne dust or dirt has to enter is the 2-3 minutes you have the fuel nozzle stuck in the filler neck. I just don't see a great amount of foreign objects entering the fuel cell.
You are more likely to get FO in the tank and subsequent problems by going to old or cheap gas stations.
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Thats also a good reason to buy just the pump and not the whole assembly(besides money).
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Originally posted by DemonSVT:
The pump has a filter sock on it.
The bottom screen is a very poorly designed pre-screen for the pump. It is not required.
Not only that, but we use a plastic fuel cell that is 100% sealed and pressurized.
What would make it a "dirty ass tank"???
The only chance any airborne dust or dirt has to enter is the 2-3 minutes you have the fuel nozzle stuck in the filler neck. I just don't see a great amount of foreign objects entering the fuel cell.
You are more likely to get FO in the tank and subsequent problems by going to old or cheap gas stations.
Even new stations get gas from OLD trucks and the trucks get the gas from OLD refirnery storage tanks, etc. A new station doesn't guarantee clean gas.
I would describe our fuel tanks as fuel tanks, not fuel cells since we have no filler material to prevent explosion or rupture leaks (as does a fuel cell).
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I just use the term cell since the are not metal tanks. To differentiate between the old scale forming metal tanks and the new shielded ABS plastic cells. BTW a Fuel cell by definition is a chemical electrical conversion tank. Nothing to do with what either of us posted...  
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I highly recommend removing the round filter disk on the fuel pump and this is from personal experience. I have to replace two fuel pumps; yes I am on my third pump. Ford replaced the first pump and of course they did not remove the disk. The next one I had to replace since the car and the other pump was out of warrantee. After doing some research on this site, I determined that the disk was not needed. My first pump went out at 24,000 miles. My next pump went out at 56,000 miles. The pump I put in without the filter disk is running fine at 91,000 miles. The sock filter will remove any particles that could hurt the pump. The fuel filter will remove the fine particles that will hurt your fuel injection system. I noticed at 90,000 miles that I was getting some hesitation, so I replaced my fuel filter and the problem went away. If I had that fine filter disk on my fuel pump, I would be replacing another fuel pump. Pumps need something to pump so it is better to restrict the flow out of a pump than to restrict flow to a pump. I work at a plant and we will put a strainer on a suction of a pump (like the sock filter) but not a very fine filter. If we need to have a fine filter, we always put the filter downstream of the pump.
In my opinion Ford made a mistake to provide such a fine filter disk on the suction of a pump.
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