Hello everyone. Had a simple filter change go wrong. Last Time i put the fuel filter on I guess I stripped it and now it's stuck. Used all my strength and destroyed the filter just to get 2 or 3 full turns. To remove the filter housing I don't understand how I remove the metal fuel lines coming from the injection pump going into the filter housing. I'll post a YouTube link shortly to let everyone see. Maybe someone knows a good way to remove the stuck filter.

Gonna have a friend come buy in a bit to hold the bottom part of the housing the cap thing while I turn the filter to see if we can at least get that off.

Thanks for reading

 

You must be using some type of filter wrench? I'm 215lbs and pretty strong, no way I could ruin a filter with my hands at that angle in the truck.

Don't worry about the bottom part, it's cheaper to get the NAPA one-piece replacement, if my memory serves me correctly. Or at least a similar price and there won't be a bottom seal to leak later on.

As for the steel lines, just unscrew the nuts all the way and pull the line out. There's no big fuel pressure to worry about and they come apart easily. Unless you have the original rubber seals, then you'll have to work a bit. Be careful not to bend the lines.

Oh and just a thought-- if anything stripped it would be the aluminum header or the brass pipe(not sure what it's called) that the filter screws onto. That same pipe screws into the aluminum header.

 

Here's the video guys.

Josh yes I used a wrench, at 230 I had no chance. Thanks for your help I'm going to go check out napa after I try to get filter off a little more. I'll try to remove the steel lines but if I think img gonna break it I'll play it safe.

 

 

Loosen those nuts on the fuel lines and they'll come just like Josh Bear said. The metal line might want to move a little bit as you first loosen it just take it slow and don't worry.

Its better to use a strap type wrench than the plier ones you're using, strap ones grab tighter as you pull instead of crushing the filter.
Not sure what you were trying to do with the screwdriver, but don't continue that idea. What could work would be a screwdriver punched through the side of the filter and out the other side.

Don't worry about the bottom, just get a one piece filter, they're cheaper and easier to swap. I use Wix 33617, its got the water sensor on the bottom that you have to swap out from the stock filter bottom. There is also ones without the water sensor, the number is similar I just don't know it off the top of my head.

 

I use a Napa 3417, Wix number should be 33417. It only has the water drain in the bottom.

 

Hey guys thanks for the help so far.

Couple updates.


My strap wrench broke when I tried to loosen the filter.now I don't think it's in good enough shape to use one.... My fault

The nuts are welded, that's why I can't move it w/o breaking

I also tried punching a screw driver through and no luck.


Finally have the rest of the day to mess with it. I'll update as I go

 

The first time I changed my fuel filter, it was so tight i had to use a leather belt. And since I'm a big boy, that belt was so long I had to route it through the engine compartment and out by the driver door. Ridiculous, but it worked.

Not my video, but this is what I did:


Mike

 

Well spent about 2 hours getting know where. I can't turn or move the filter. I had a wrench and my friend had a screwdriver shoved thru the filter. We got 2 full rotations and filter didn't move Down at all. The nuts for the steel lines were welded or heated together for some dumb reason and can't remove housing from tuck without doing a lot of stuff I don't have tools for.


And ideas on how I could maybe cut through the filter, like just cut the middle and straight through the aluminum or steel ring thing at the top of the filter?

I'm a college student and have very very few tools with me. I'm thinking like super siccors or something

 

Hey white boyslo I loved the video. My gen wasn't tough cool stuff like that.

 

Edit: Now that I've watched the video, it's clear to me. I thought those nuts were brass, and the lines steel! Which means no welding.
Also you'd see it if it were possible. Worst case they JB welded the nuts. I'd just rip on it with the tightest fitting end wrench you can get on it. If that fitting breaks you were worried about, they are like $3 each at a hardware/plumbing store.

And then if it breaks, you could cut the tubing on both sides. you'd need a cheap compact tube cutter from home depot. It's only like $10-12, handy as heck for old school fuel systems that run low pressures.

Anyway once it's off you can use a vice on the filter or go to a buddy with more tools, junk yard replacement, etc.

 

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Well I finally won.....kinda. as you can see it took some effort lol.

Does anyone know what the double sided brass piece is called the connects the filter and housing? Or how to get that or the bottom.piece off the filter without a vice?

Where I live basically all college students leave for weekends so I can't get a ride or find someone with a vice until a little bit later



I appreciate all the help with this thread and threads I have posted in the past. Thank you very much ford enthusiasts

 

Your picture doesn't show up.

The double sided brass piece is probably a close nipple. It most likely is not something you'll be able to find.

 

should be able to put a wrench on the fitting, stand on the crushed filter with one foot and stand on the end of the wrench with another, need a fairly large (over 1") combination wrench, and it should bust loose.

 

Actually, if there are hex flats on that fitting (hard to tell from the pic angle), I would put a socket on it, with a bigeffin' breaker bar. Then a strap wrench on the filter (or stand on it). Worst case, cutting wheel on the top of the filter, cut a small circle around the fitting, then with what's left, one single radial cut toward the fitting, stop JUUUUUST as you're approaching the threads of the fitting, then you should be able to split it open.