I have a Lincoln Classic 3 gas welder,and I was wondering which inline gasoline filter would work best. I`m not sure what filter was on there when I bought the welder{ I didn`t pay attention as to what filter was on there when I bought it,I thought any filter would work fine}. When I bought it,it ran great,and after a couple of years I changed the fuel filter,I just figured it was about time to change it. Well when I went out on a job working on a drilling rig,the welder would run for a while and then it would quit. I then went to start it and it would not start right away,but would after about a minute. Then it would run for 3 or 4 minutes and then quit again. I would try and start it ,same old thing,wait for about a minute,then it would start and run again for about 3 or 4 minutes. As you can guess this gets embarrasing as well as it doesn`t look good,to have someone come out to work on a drilling rig where downtime is very costly,and the rig needs to be up and running yesterday. I drained out all the gas from the tank and carb,figuring maybe I had bad gas.But no same problem. Then I thought I had an obstruction in my gas line,took it off checked it out,it was fine. I eventually took off my fuel filter and it ran great,just like it should. When I got back home I put the filter back on same problem. So then I went and bought another filter and put it on,and had the same problem again. Took it off ran great while welding,put it on same problem. The filters I was using were Wix filters.I don`t know what was on originally,but with the original filter it ran fine. If I would have known it was goint to run this way with new Wix filters,I would have checked the old filter closely to find out the brand before throwing it out. Also when the welder was running with the filter on, the gas didn`t even seem to flow into the filter well. It wasn`t even 1/4 full,I thought the gas should have flowed more freely and possibly filled the filter at least 3/4 full when running.When I bought it I asked for an inline gasoline filter that fastened to a 1/4 inch line. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks.
seen this and just had to chime in. 97 classic 1 did the regular tune up , oil plugs filters and everything i could think of. next morning fired off machine ran fine for about two hours then it coughs a few times and dies go back to truck fire it up again runs fine for a few minutes coughs and dies check to make sure filter is on right check to make sure on fuel all is good so i pull the new filter installed the evening before use a hose splice to hook it back up machine fires on first try runs good the rest of the day. i ended going to the hardware store and bought an inline filter for a lawn mower no more fuel problems
i had the same problem,went to wal-mart bought a lawn mower filter for $2.89 and have not had a problem since then.now i have a spare on my truck,never know when you will need it or a buddy of yours.