so guys i pop my hood this morning and i notice on my passenger side down where the GPs sit i have pools of liquid. I assume its diesel so i wipe it all up and smell it... it is odorless. I feel the bottom of the water separator on the fuel filter and it is wet and the drain tube is off and the bottom is wet. Still clear odorless liquid so i say its water. now this isnt a drip here and there i literally have puddles near every glow plug on the passenger side. I did fill up at safeway last night ... you guys ever have this problem? The water in fuel light never turned on (i havent seen this light even work since '93)
Should i ignore this and let it just run out or try and fix some how?

 

The water separater only drains if you turn it to drain it if it was open you would lose all fuel out of filter

 

Check the heater hoses, I think they go through the same area. If one of them sprung a small leak, it could be spraying the bottom of the fuel filter, as well as onto the engine. Once on the engine, it could be pooling up around the glow plugs as that is a small area. I'd get the truck warmed up to normal operating temp, pop the hood and check to see if anything is spraying.

 

Opened the hood when running. Its deffinatly diesel. Injectors on whole passenger side were soaked. But doesn't smell like diesel after it sat

 

Well does it taste like diesel after it sits? Because it should still smell like diesel...???

Sounds like you need to repair the injector return lines if its diesel, but shouldn't get to the bottom of the fuel filter that way.

 

I left the pool there so here in a bit im going to taste. It leaking quite a bit from each injector. Could it be spraying? I guess I could rev it up and see

 

I've had the fuel filters start to leak on a couple trucks, not sure if the rubber gets hard or what, change the filter and leak stopped.

 

i soaked up the fluid and this is what i got. Doesn't taste or smell like diesel but feels like it (slick). this is what is coming out of injectors on one side only. safeway diesel

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Does it burn like diesel? Do you ACTIVELY see it leaking out of the injectors? Coolant can feel slippery too.

I don't want to say you're lying, but if it doesn't smell or taste like diesel, its not diesel. If it doesn't burn like diesel, you don't have a diesel leak. Something just doesn't seem right.

What does your coolant look like? If you spilled some coolant over the injectors, and it sat for a little while, would it look like what you're sucking up?

Next idea, clean it up the best you with some paper towels. Then lay a few clean dry paper towels over the injectors. Cover with a piece of plastic (trash bag, saran wrap whatever..) Probably will have to weigh it down or tape in place so the fan won't blow it out of place. Put a few more paper towels on top of the plastic (again may need a little bit of tape). Then run the engine and see what happens. If the top layer stays dry, and the injectors/lines get soaked again, fix the return lines. If the top layer gets soaked, but the bottom stays dry, look for the real leak.

Be careful when working around the return lines, if they aren't leaking, and you move then, you'll mess up the o-rings and cause them to at least leak air in, if not diesel out.

 

I have purple coolant. Coolant is ok. I physically see it coming from the return line connection. Just wondering y its that color and y my fuel filter is covered in same stuff. Checked the inside of filter and it was normal

 

Taste it and burn it. One of the two should tell you what it is.