Beyond Frustrated - Wont start/stay running

^^This is true, even they are not perfect. The old Landruiser I fought for years, had fine dusty rust that would "shake up" from the tank. I ran an inline filter, an AC sediment bowl, and when running a QJ or Holley, STILL ran the brass/ ceramic little "thimble" and EVEN THEN stuff "got past"

It would start to "idle bad" and I "knew"

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I've never had a stock type inline filter on a mopar plug up from catching too much stuff, but I had a ceramic inlet filter on my mother in law's 350 2bbl Malibu wagon plug up. Funny thing, it didn't look plugged up, but all I did was remove it, and the car ran fine, whereas before it wouldn't run at all.