"it might be that the high pressure of the 'high side' is very high"

might be....

can you say 1668-1740 psi ?

so your advice is to put a filter on the high pressure side of the
pump, unless that pressure is too high for the filter. Have you
actually done this?

alistair

On 9-Jun-10, at 4:44 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:

> here's what I think might be a very good idea ...
> and inline filter on the pressure side of the PS pump going to the
> rack.
> There is a filter screen in the bottom of the res..
> but that only filters ATF coming back from the rack.  ( so it
> protects the
> pump from the rack failing )
> but there is no protection against the pump failing and pumping
> junk into
> the rack.
>
> check out a FLAPS, or truck places ..
> an inline ATF filter is a common add-on for Automatic Transmissions.
> that way you could pump some juice into your rack , and be sure the
> pump was
> not pumping metal into it or whatever.
>
> it might be that the high pressure of the 'high side' is very high,
> or too
> high for an inline filter , so consider that for sure.
>