I have a 10 year old generator with a Tecumseh 10 hp engine. The gen was built without any fuel filter , although it may have had a screen of some sort that fell off inside the tank. I am constantly pulling off the carb and finding little bits of plastic, metal or dirt clogging up the jets and lying in the bottom of the bowl, and then having to tear down the carb and do a full clean. I want to add a fuel filter to the 1/4 " fuel line, which is easy enough, but I am concerned that the carb might be starved for fuel. The tank is above the engine and is gravity fed. Most of the fuel filters for this purpose are either 75 micron or 150 micron, but I want to go with the Wix 33001 which seems to be common for small engines and is a 12 micron filter. I always run fuel stabilizer and try to pre-filter the fuel, but it seems to be a lost cause without some filter in the fuel line. Am I asking for different problems by adding a fuel filter ?