90 b22 fuel filter location?

Well its the carb'd 2.2 engine and from my research i learned it was near the firewall behind the carb. I am still unable to locate the filter. The new one i purchased is an inline type made for the vehicle so i would assume it should be right in the engine bay. If anyone knows the location it would be a great help!

Thanks in advance guys!

If you have an automatic, the filter is located near the gas tank, under the truck.

Otherwise it is located on the passenger inner fender well.

right on! thanks for the help! swapped it out in a minute!

Good to hear SkrapinSask got things fixed - tweaker is pretty smart when it comes to odd ball things like this.

Ok tweaker - riddle me this, why would Mazda put the fuel filter near the tank on an automatic but on the inner fender well if you have a 5 speed. Just does not seem to make sense. But then again......

I'm not sure if this contributes to the fuel filter location but the automatics have an in tank fuel pump and manual has a mechanical pump.

Why is a fuel filter located where it is. . . ?

Probably for a couple reasons.

A mechanical pump pulls fuel.

A electric pump pushes fuel.

A mechanical pump generates 3-5 psi.

An electrical pump can generate far more.

A mechanical pump pulls fuel through a filter.

An electrical pump pushes fuel through a filter.

Junk and debris get caught a lot earlier in the line of an electrical pump setup.

I would have said something clever like "The pump creates pulsations that the filter dampens, preventing line resonation" but that wouldn't matter enough to be a universal factor. Other makes, models and manufacturers have the filter in all kinds of weird places.

So maybe Mazda wanted to be like them.