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[richmondclassicsnorthwales]

As Moke says - replace once a year - for the money - not worth messing around, fuel flow is more relevant

 

Again - placing the filter in an easy access place for visibility and ease,  kills 2 birds - one you can see it - two - easier to get to rather than jacking the back of the car up and lying on your side and back and showing the neighbours your yoga moves

 

Personally - I prefer the up front to the carb approach.  My reasoning - If you have a steel line fuel line, and there is moisture - you can catch the crud better up front as you will get sediment from the tank and the line. If you have it at the back - you can catch the crud from the tank - but not from the line.

 

I have done both approaches to this subject and found from experience - better up front

 

As for costing - you can buy a pack of 5 and 10 for reasonable prices - just a case of using your own initiative and not just install anything - but something half decent

[Spider]

Any recommendations on the best filters to use? 

 

I don't know if these are the best but they were factory fitted here from about 1976 on

 

https://www.rycofilt.../index/part/Z15

 

I continue to use these or a similar model in that brand that has an angled outlet.

 

I'm also not sure if these are widely available in the UK ?

 

 

A little off topic - when we go 'on safari' we usually carry 2 spares per car. On one trip,we all got some very dirty petrol, within about 120 miles, we'd used our spares up, so we re-cycled our used ones by back flushing them. That got us through those bad tank loads and eventually, back home.