- Joined
- Mar 26, 2018
- Messages
- 768
- City
- Brighton, CO
- Vehicle Year
- 2002
- Engine
- 3.0 V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
- My credo
- Friend of Bill W.
Sadly I found the fuel lines butchered on this 2002 4WD Ranger XLT when passed to me after Dad died. Also I never liked the idea of having to fish out the original fuel filter tucked away up over a cross-member. Fine no doubt for off road driving but if I'm ever off road, if was not intentional.
So I was thinking all fuel filters should be of the spin-on variety when I came upon the WIX 24770/NAPA Gold 4770 filter mounting base. Looking for a good place to mount it under my Ranger, I spotted this bracket. I do not know the function of this under floor bracket but it looked appropriate to me for attaching the filter mounting base.
Then it was a matter of building an additional bracket to attach the filter mounting base to the under floor bracket as such:
I attached the homemade bracket first and then the fuel filter mounting base.
Except for the pain of splicing into the factory vinyl/PVC/nylon fuel lines, installation with the proper fittings was easy enough.
I added the fuel pressure gauge simply because I wanted on and the filter mounting base had one more port than was needed.
WIX technical support was very helpful and recommended this filter:
And then the completed installation which has worked well since September 2021.
Sure, none of this was necessary but what are trucks for anyway!
So I was thinking all fuel filters should be of the spin-on variety when I came upon the WIX 24770/NAPA Gold 4770 filter mounting base. Looking for a good place to mount it under my Ranger, I spotted this bracket. I do not know the function of this under floor bracket but it looked appropriate to me for attaching the filter mounting base.
Then it was a matter of building an additional bracket to attach the filter mounting base to the under floor bracket as such:
I attached the homemade bracket first and then the fuel filter mounting base.
Except for the pain of splicing into the factory vinyl/PVC/nylon fuel lines, installation with the proper fittings was easy enough.
I added the fuel pressure gauge simply because I wanted on and the filter mounting base had one more port than was needed.
WIX technical support was very helpful and recommended this filter:
And then the completed installation which has worked well since September 2021.
Sure, none of this was necessary but what are trucks for anyway!