Fuel filter size, what does FLG mean ??

Status
Not open for further replies.
Fast Eddie

Fast Eddie

VIP MEMBER
Joined
Oct 4, 2013
Messages
21,597
Country flag
Can one of you clever folk help out a thicko please?

I’m looking at some fuel filters on ebay that are advertised as 1/4” FLG.

Can someone please educate me as to the meaning of FLG ?

Is it the ID of the spigot on the filter?

Or the ID of the fuel line the spigot is designed to fit into?

Or something entirely different ?

Google has failed me...
 
More common to see them noted as 'flng'. Sort of helps in avoiding confusion. They should have had some piping experience reading ISO's W/BOM's prior to unleashing a not so common term saving keyboard stress..... Those are hose barbs anyway on inline filters, so double fail on communication.
 
jbruney said:
More common to see them noted as 'flng'. Sort of helps in avoiding confusion. They should have had some piping experience reading ISO's W/BOM's prior to unleashing a not so common term saving keyboard stress..... Those are hose barbs anyway on inline filters, so double fail on communication.
Click to expand...
Exactly, hose barbs, or spigots, but not flanges !
 
Perhaps description was made by someone not very familiar with the finer nuances of our common language.... We're quite capable of creating confusion enough on our own without outside assistance as we all know from regional dialects.

You don't type with an English accent.... Does mine have a southern American inflection?
 
jbruney said:
Perhaps description was made by someone not very familiar with the finer nuances of our common language.... We're quite capable of creating confusion enough on our own without outside assistance as we all know from regional dialects.

You don't type with an English accent.... Does mine have a southern American inflection?
Click to expand...
I was born in MN, raised in Seattle, lived in NOLA, married an English woman from Hampshire, moved to NZ and then married a Kiwi. What is my accent? LOL
 
My sister (Essex girl) adopted her husband's Scots accent after a few years of marriage, now a semi Kiwi of 50 odd years she sounds just like the chicken in: 'Meet The Feebles.' Scarey!!
 
I have to have a minute sometimes to take it in from the few Scots I've met.
 
Beemer said:
Aren’t the pitcock screens sufficient
Click to expand...

No.

As Fast Eddie wrote, they catch the "big stuff", but they also degrade over time and allow larger particles to pass. Anyone with the original petcocks is living a charmed life on borrowed time. Every time you remove the tank you run the chance of loosening more crap; shaken not stirred...

You have countless choices for fuel filters. Choose the pair that has a flow rate above the maximum consumption rate you anticipate and you can worry about something else, and the Norton as countless choices of these...

Best.
 
Hey Nigel,
What filter did you go with?
Thanks,Mike
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

gpzkat
Fuel filter into fuel tap - is it threaded or just press-in?
2 3
Replies
52
Views
1,130
Fast Eddie
Fast Eddie
robs ss
Fuel Filter Flow Confusion
Replies
4
Views
790
Schwany
Schwany
7
  • Locked
Oil leaking from exhaust ports, what does that mean?
Replies
3
Views
2,374
Chris
Chris
Back
Top