Yes, the filter is in the carb where the fuel line goes in. It looks like a screen to me. Sorry wrong wordage. We pulled off the cap and everything looked good. Looked in the carb, hit the throttle, fuel streamed out at low rpms and when holding the throttle there the fuel stream gets weak. When on the throttle at the higher rpms the fuel turns to a fine mist and roars. This is all in the driveway mind you. When I took it for another drive it could barely get moving. When I finally got into second and third gear it sputters and backfires. But again at the higher rpms it runs. Maybe a bad fuel pump or the line clogged at it?