Changing Fuel filter and regulator - Page 2

**shimmy** · 10-07-2012, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cantfind1

Shim you should be a photographer...................

My photo bucket is playing up!

shane@mbtech · 10-07-2012, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by shimmy

Cheers guys.

Change the filter, regulator, o ring and circling yesterday so now need a hot trAckday to test out the cooling! It sounded like a bag of spanners for 5 minutes after but then all settled down.

Easy job, even time for a ciggy whilst I did it! Cheers for the tea Billy!

(did you remember to lock the door?)

You are meant to prime the filter a few times by turning the ignition on and off and on again a couple of times, it would have run great from get go then.

You are brave using an angle grinder on a petrol soaked filter. LOL

**shimmy** · 10-07-2012, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by lawsy

You are brave using an angle grinder on a petrol soaked filter. LOL

Been watching the Sopranos all week

is did purge it with water and then drip dry it and then put my fireproof banaclava on!

**CraigMillwardCroft** · 10-07-2012, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by shimmy

Been watching the Sopranos all week

is did purge it with water and then drip dry it and then put my fireproof banaclava on!

That has to be seen

Chad · 29-10-2018, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by shimmy

So I bought:

Fuel filter (1) and copper washer (3)
Regulator (4) [which comes with 5+6 fitted] and circlip (7)

Got them fitted no issues, except it takes a few minutes for the car to run evenly and fuel pressure to get up to even pressure I guess.

On getting home I decided to cut open the Filter (non service item) and see what it was like. aluminium construction with steel threaded end.

I cut it open with an angle grinder. Something I can't do with the regulator (it's too small) so I need to borrow someone's dremmel with metal cutting disc

so I can see if the vacuum disc is broken.

Re ignition of an old post. Thought it was about time, so I did my fuel filter at the weekend, while I was in the area did the gearbox oil castrol syntrans b75w ,,I believe oem ,,, wasn’t quite as brave as shimmy cutting open the fuel filter with a angle grinder ,