Alcohol killed my fuel filter!

[Fridge]

I notised no one wants to buy my Q while its missing so I started investigating. Sometimes it misses sometimes it dont so I decided to change the filter and run some seaform through it. I removed the filter and black stuff came out of it. Hmmmm whats this me thinks. I cut the filter open and found it is the glue holding the paper element in. It has turned to chalk. This was a wix filter I wonder if there is a brand that will stand up to the alcohol? Looks like the filter will have to be changed often.

[maxnix]

OEM annually.

[Fridge]

Have you ever cut open a oem filter? I wonder if they are prone to the alcohol as well. The filter that was on there was about 6 months old. I asked the counter guy at the local auto partsbut he was clueless about a alcohol resistant filter..

[qship96]

What makes you so sure it is "alcohol" causing the problem with the fuel filter?

[maxnix]

There is another recent post about someone who cut open his filter, or actually just observed goo coming out of it. Might have been OEM and I don't think he knew how long itwas in service.

Q45tech reverse blows his and weighs them to judge trapped contaminants.

[Q45tech]

Unfortunately history is just that - the past.

I buy 3 gallons per month for lawnmower and weedwhacker so I get to see in a graduated glass cylinder test kit what's happening in the wonderful world of gasoline.

http://www.fuel-testers.com/pr....html