buick man Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Just wondering if anyone has experienced or heard of any issues resulting from running E-10 fuels through a glass bowl filter using the older AC NOS porcelain or NOS AC red cellulose fuel filter or even the regular Paper Replacement elements designed for real gas that you see being offered on the Web? For Example: Like a AC GF-124 which would be the one to use on post war 50's and early 60's Buicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 The porcelain would probably be ok, but not any OLD cellulose or paper with ANY gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick man Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 So you would not buy any of these NOS AC filter elements that are being offered for glass bowl filters. Then that begs the question are the currently available replacement GF-124 Napa paper replacement filters for our glass sight bowl filters O.K. with E-10 or are they just selling yesterdays technology paper filters as a new item today? What is everyone using for a filter element today if you use a glass bowl filter setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Many parts of the country have had ethanol'd and ReFormulatedGas for about 20 years now (10% and approx. 5% ethanol, respectively). I would hope that a higher-volume re-seller as NAPA would now have filters tolerant and designed for these newer fuels. Of course, you could probably ask them to decode the date code on the box or part itself, (if there is one). BUT, if you get the ceramic which Old-Tank mentioned, no worries! NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhclark Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I use Wix filters with no issue. 33034 for non A/C cars and 33039 for A/C cars, at least for 1959. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Newer parts are ok, but don't use perishable (perished?) parts like filters, hoses, belts, seals.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick man Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 (edited) Tanks fellas….for the replies. Guess Ceramic is O.K. but would still want to bench bottle test any so called New paper filter to make sure the glue resins in the paper would not be dissolved by the ethanol solvent fuel E-10. I can find Carter Ceramic filters which are new made for the Carter glass bowl filter setup, bus as mentioned earlier, not able to find AC porcelain filters. Not sure if Carter units would fit an AC glass bowl fiber setup. Might have to buy a Carter porcelain one and find out. Edited May 27, 2015 by buick man (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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