Well, got to spend a little time on the green Ranger today around a couple interruptions. Blew out a brake hard line because it’s been sitting and blew out my new -AN fuel line, pulled the old motor mounts and put the new ones in, pulled the old fuel line from the filter and sent the new line down there, filled the front diff with oil, pinned it in place (I say pinned because the nuts were not with the bolts except for the one that goes straight up, so nothing is tight with it yet), cleaned off the drivers side CV and shoved it in (oil was trying to get out), then slid under to connect the new line to the fuel filter and…. It doesn’t fit. The fitting coming out of the front of the filter isn’t long enough for the connector I have. So I either need a different connector, a different fuel filter, a different type of filter, a different line, or to get my line apart (which I haven’t been able to separate yet and what prompted the -AN line).
I had been thinking about getting an aftermarket canister type filter, but decided against spending the money at the time. Pretty sure someone on here did one of those but I don’t remember where it got posted or where I would have made a note of what I needed, so I’ll have to figure this all out. At this point, that’s the simple solution I think, it was what I initially planned. Be able to use the line I already made too. Which also means I don’t see any reason not to be able to set the engine once I get the brake line in and a couple little housekeeping chores in the engine bay done.