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No.....cause even single tanked rangers have that black fuel canister. Seems like all that is for is to hold fuel to allow quicker starts or something along those lines. If you pull one apart theres nothing inside of one. The later model trucks (once ford started using just a high pressure pump in the tank) dont even have a black canister even with dual tanks.That thing you thought was a filter is what Ford calls the fuel reservoir. That link that is in the previous post is the wrong valve. That large round thing you took apart is your switching valve, fuel pressure from the pumps operate it. When you electrically switch power from one pump to the other, the pressure from the pump goes up to the fuel reservoir and moves the spool inside to switch the lines and send the return fuel to the proper tank.
IIRC the valve i posted is first in line, as in...
fuel tanks >selector valve>canister>rail pump>filter>engine.
They can get stuck halfway between postions and will usually just feed fuel between the tanks.