Hi all, wanted to post this to get some feedback.....

So two days ago, I'm driving, hear a suspicious pop from under the hood, start to smell diesel and a low fuel pressure warning comes up on the screen just as I'm pulling in my driveway. I shut down the truck, open the hood and there is diesel fuel all over the engine compartment and on the ground. After a minute or two, I see that the middle fitting on the engine bay fuel filter has popped off. (NOTE: A week earlier I had just replaced both fuel filters, without any issue (so I thought). This is my third 6.7 and have done this procedure successfully many times).

On the 2017s+ the filter drops in the bracket and you turn in slightly clockwise to "lock it in." So in the process of cleaning up the diesel mess I remove the filter again but notice that the tab on the plastic filter bracket that catches the the small nub on the filter has cracked. Since that tab is cracked, the filter isn't as secure as it should be.

So my question to you all is do you think that that tab being cracked caused the filter to move around enough to work that fitting loose or is it more likely that the lock on the fitting wasn't fully seated when I replaced the filter?

Thanks in advance.

PS - on a separate related note, does anyone have some good suggestions to clean up all the diesel from the engine bay, truck now wreaks of diesel fuel.