Quote Originally Posted by DmaxMaverick View Post
To repeat what I've said before.....

In my educated opinion, this is not good advice. Add a lift pump pre-filter if you wish, but do not remove the sock as a course of corrective or preventive action. If your sock is plugging, or giving you ANY grief, you have a SERIOUS fuel quality problem. The sock is nothing more than a relatively coarse screen, which will catch metal flakes, pebbles, sand, algae or other large debris that may plug the pickup tube inlet. If your sock is plugging up, you would have had to replace dozens of filters by this time. If the sock is plugged, the tank and entire fuel system needs to be cleaned and flushed. It's that simple. I hear the sock getting blamed as a "problem", while it almost never can be. Of course it can fail, but it will never cause the problems it is blamed for. It will almost always be the result of a problem, and almost never be the cause of one.
While your advice is correct when dealing with the stock diesel sock,it does not remedy the condition many people face when buying aftermarket sending units that even though are speced for diesel use-have been shipped with gasoline socks.
The socks for gas use are a much finer mesh and often inhibit the flow of diesel that is a much thicker fluid-especially when the fuel is exposed to colder temps.