[RustyPile]

In other words, you're looking for an opinion. Let's look at the facts.. Every time you called on the engine for speed, carrying a load, or climbing a hill, the engine would miss and perform poorly.. EVERY TIME.. 90% of the people here directed you toward fuel starvation .. For whatever reason, it took you a week to find this filter filled and plugged with crap from the tank.. After you replaced it, the engine runs fine.. I can guarantee you still have crap in the fuel tank that will eventually make it's to a filter and that one will be plugged.. How long that will take is anybody's guess.. When it does happen, will you start this thread all over again looking for a bad coil, OR, will you go directly to the filters again.. Think about it.. With a known dirty gas tank, do you want a spare coil or spare filter????