Since getting down here I’ve noticed that fuel filters plug up faster than they did up North, but the dirt bikes and trikes in particular seem to get a lot of nasty material in the float bowls even with inline filters.
I tried a glass filter (duh) that broke when a rock hit it 10 miles into a trip. Then I started using these, but I still find a bunch of junk in my float bowls after just a few hours of use. This one has 400+ hours on it and there’s hardly anything trapped in it
So about 6 months back I remembered the filter my Dad’s old 1972 Moto-Ski had. It was a Tillotson in-line filter that you could open and clean and put back together with a single screw. It also was adjustable if you wanted to angle the inlet, or outlet. I searched eBay and there were some NOS units still out there, so I grabbed a couple and put on on my long range bike.
So last night I opened the carb to clean the bowl as I have been doing every 20 hours or so and it was clean so I opened the Tillotson filter and this is what I found.
Can’t say enough good about these things. Put the second one on the back up bike and found a dozen more on eBay. I’m putting them on everything I own with 1/4” line.