How to guide: Changing Fuel Filter

[wadoryu]

use a cable tie mate it's what i did

[Gazer]

Originally Posted by wadoryu

use a cable tie mate it's what i did

i wanna try and get a strap first

[iJAZ]

Could be a missfire? Is this only happening with 'hard' acceleration?

[m0nk3yb0y94]

Great guide very useful

[unimatrix1]

Brilliant Guide I must say.

Them clips are to get off the filter.

Also no need to jack up the car I did it with it on the ground easy enough to get to and saved lots of time.

[jware92]

Originally Posted by Predator_R32

lol my car has slipped off the jack before, its so easy to do, if your working uder a car with just the jack in place and you start undoing a bolt the jack could easily fail or slip, for the sake of an extra 2 minutes put it on stands, could save your life

Car slipped of the jack on me just after christmas, black eye and a couple cracked ribs, +1 with the stands!

[Pink1991]

I herd that removing the fuse to the fuel pump and then switching the ignition on will clear the petrol out of the filter and hoses and the pump wont let anymore petrol in and this will stop fuel coming out of the filter then you take it out ... has anyone tried this?

[Zephyr]

great guide!

[a1sparky]

Thanks for this great post i will be doin mine tomoz

[jamie281093]

Just thought i would share what came out my old filter today...isnt it supposed to be clean car runs so much better now, put some redex through too as had massive prower loss before, I even thought the engine was shot before i changed the fuel filter

[GTuff]

great guide took 5 mins did get bit of petrol in the eye

[sbragato]

i want change the fuel filter, but before i want ask a question; when i remove completely the filter, the petrol continues to go out or comes out just a little bit?

[kentphil]

Hi,

I'm sorry to come on here as a newbie and ask for help straight away, but we have just done a major service on my daughters 03 plate saxo desire. I doing this we changed the fuel filter, and needless to say the old strap broke.

I have managed to get a new one from Citroen (had to buy 4 to get 1!!), but my question is, do you have to drop the tank on that side to get the upper part of the strap in?.

We have tried for 20 minutes to feed it in, but I just cant get my big sausage fingers in to press it into the tank. Is there a particular trick to this or is it the pain it looks?.

At the moment, I have temporaily cable tied it up to the brake lines, but I don't like the idea of this as a longlasting repair in case it chafes through the brake line.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Phil

[skudero]

hi ive been strugling with this one and i cant get it off ! anyone qith the same problem ?

http://www.mediafire.com/view/e3sufr...u/DSC_0901.jpg

thanks in advance

[ashj22]

nice guide, good pics aswell.