Going to be changing my fuel filter, is there anything I should know before hand or a guide on how to cheers

Easy enough done, take off intercooler, filter back pass side on fire wall. Disconnect wire below filter, loosen clips and remove pipes, unscrew and be careful, it'll be full of fuel.
Remove filter from the bottom of old filter, I know, sounded odd. Clamp/vice metal lip of main body and unscrew plastic bit.
put this plastic bit on new filter, put new seal ring on top of new filter and wet with NEW fuel. Fill filter with NEW fuel, not the fuel from old one.
screw back in, replace everything, including wire below. Pump the priming button on top until firm and then you are done yo

Quote: dazmanf wrote in post #2

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Easy enough done, take off intercooler, filter back pass side on fire wall. Disconnect wire below filter, loosen clips and remove pipes, unscrew and be careful, it'll be full of fuel.
Remove filter from the bottom of old filter, I know, sounded odd. Clamp/vice metal lip of main body and unscrew plastic bit.
put this plastic bit on new filter, put new seal ring on top of new filter and wet with NEW fuel. Fill filter with NEW fuel, not the fuel from old one.
screw back in, replace everything, including wire below. Pump the priming button on top until firm and then you are done yo

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nah dont bother tanking cooler off waste of time

Cheers lads il have a go tonight

5 min job mate 15 mins tops if you aint done it before, just have some FRESH derv to fill the new filter with and fill it to the top a few times saves having to prime to bitch

No,never taken off intercooler either..it's dead easy..just remember to prime it after.

Daz

Weird, my filter sits under the cooler and has to come off to get in at it. Either I've fat ass hands or I'm missing a trick

Just under to the rear but it comes out easily enough with my big shovel hands

I can see how removing the intercooler would make access easier,but at the same time,I can't really see why you would need to..I don't have big hands but access is dead easy for me.

Daz

Quote: dazmanf wrote in post #8

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Weird, my filter sits under the cooler and has to come off to get in at it. Either I've fat ass hands or I'm missing a trick

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to get better access to my filter, I bent the bracket out of the way (the one with the loom cable tied to it in this picture). Unplug the wires from the bottom and remove it with the drain thingy still attached so you dont spill diesel everywhere
I also half fill mine with forte diesel injector cleaner (after screwing the drain thingy back in from the old filter)then top up with diesel when I change mine.Smear a little diesel round the top of the rubber seal to help it seal when you put it back on. Pump the primer till it's hard then start her up ........ then a few good hard revs (italian tune up) will chuck all sorts of black stuff out the exhaust

Yous are all just show offs lmao

Yet again cheers guys. This forums proving really useful. Hopefully it be fine and nothing will catch fire 😂 but I spray cars for a living. Am no mechanic

John...I may have a job for you

Daz

I assume the body screws off from the top pump section cow mines stuck on like a b!tch. Send my pm daz

use a oil filter strap mate

If you release the pressure in the can by opening the bleed screw slightly,you will unscrew it by hand..they can be tight but it generally works

Daz

For anyone interested this is what came out my filter

I think that shows 2 things..1, it's time for the filter change and,2, it proves the filter was doing its job..

Daz

yeh thats normal mate good for cleanning that bit of fuel