The pieces that make up the Dry-break fuel filter are its bottom, which can accept any dash 10 adapter, the micro-mesh filter itself, a poppet valve and the related parts to hold it all together. Tear-down time can take about 10 minutes max, and there is no fuel lost with this new filter system.

The Barry Grant Dry-break fuel filter is made up of an Enduro pump "bottom-half" that has an inlet that can be plumbed with either a dash 10 straight fitting or a dash 10 90-degree fitting. Inside this bottom of the new fuel filter is a specially-machined, spring-loaded and o-ringed "poppet" valve that seals the whole system from leakage when it's taken apart.

The filtration element is made up of an eight-micron, pleated, stainless steel fabric that if ever taken apart can stretch to nine feet in length. "It can hold a lot of trash without any reduction of fuel flow," Grant said. The filter element is placed together with the outlet in-housing, and besides some screws to hold the top of the filter to the bottom, that is all the pieces the part is made up of.

A T-handled Allen wrench is all that's needed to take this filter apart. Everything is sealed with rubber O-rings that don't leak, even when saturated with racing alcohol. The filter accepts either gasoline or alcohol for fuel.

When it comes time to clean the fuel filter, the racer merely has to loosen four Allen-headed screws to take the filter apart. The whole operation should take no more than 10 minutes, and the new Barry Grant Dry-break filter can save the racer not only time, but lost or spilled fuel. And it just may prevent a fire hazard like the one that hit our friend who was draining racing gas from his racecar into a fuel jug.