Yesterday I decided to change the fuel filters. Simple job, right? Spin the old ones off, fill the new ones with fuel, spin on, maybe bleed a little just to be sure, done.
Not with MY luck.
The PO was kind enough to put on the adapter to change the old CAV (cartridge) style system to take a spin-on filter. Good idea.
There's no room between the filter and the heat exchanger below it to remove the filter. Bad idea:
I suspect the adapter is a DP-1000
I can see the pipe with the circular hole in it sticking way down into the filter, which prevents me from sliding it out at an angle (#7 in the parts list).
There's the head of a bolt (#1) on top of the filter bracket, but it just turns without much resistance. I assume the nut on the bottom (#8) is just turning.
Two bolts will remove the bracket, but I still have four metal fuel lines I'd need to disconnect to get it out far enough. I tried to see if there was enough play in them leaving them attached, no luck.
Two questions:
1) Is there something I'm missing here? Any other way to get these out?
2) After breaking all 4 fuel lines, should I replace the adapters with the narrower screw-on kind that don't have the pipe sticking down into the filter? I've heard they sometimes spin off with the filter, but that would still be easier than breaking the fuel system at four locations.
Not with MY luck.
The PO was kind enough to put on the adapter to change the old CAV (cartridge) style system to take a spin-on filter. Good idea.
There's no room between the filter and the heat exchanger below it to remove the filter. Bad idea:
I suspect the adapter is a DP-1000
I can see the pipe with the circular hole in it sticking way down into the filter, which prevents me from sliding it out at an angle (#7 in the parts list).
There's the head of a bolt (#1) on top of the filter bracket, but it just turns without much resistance. I assume the nut on the bottom (#8) is just turning.
Two bolts will remove the bracket, but I still have four metal fuel lines I'd need to disconnect to get it out far enough. I tried to see if there was enough play in them leaving them attached, no luck.
Two questions:
1) Is there something I'm missing here? Any other way to get these out?
2) After breaking all 4 fuel lines, should I replace the adapters with the narrower screw-on kind that don't have the pipe sticking down into the filter? I've heard they sometimes spin off with the filter, but that would still be easier than breaking the fuel system at four locations.
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