Weird Fuel Leak!
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Weird Fuel Leak!
Finally got my 88 F-150 running, the only problem is there is a fuel leak... It's right down by the filter, but i'm not sure it's the filter, but it's gotta be. I replaced the line going from the booster to the filter and the line from the filter to the rail, but the damn thing still leaks and bad. I'm thinking that possible if the fuel filter wasn't manufactured correctly and the extenders on the ends of the filter are a little too small, maybe the fuel might be coming out of there, but i doubt it. The fuel filter is brand new so i don't know what the hell is going on. Please Help!
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well i would take it back and try to exchange it or go ahead and get a new one trying to save the money a filter cost is not worth wasting all that gas, it is way to expensive to waste, and if it still leaks then i don't know. i was actually worried about that on mine when i changed the filter last month because there were some small clamps inside the fuel line i had to get out yo get the filter off and i couldn't get them back in, i think that they were factory clips, if they were then that filter was about 9 years old.
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you say you replaced the fuel line........did you replace it with the correct fuel line with the clips in the end for the filter? when you buy a new filter you get new plastic clips with it. why do you need clips? because the line is under a lot of pressure and you dont want it to leak. the correct fuel line has plastic ends that use clips to secure the line to the filter.
Last edited by bourbon; Mar 11, 2005 at 12:24 AM.
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no, i replaced the filter and on the inside if the lines there were little round, looked kinda like a bushing, on the inside of the metal part of the line, they were very flexible and bent up easy, i do belive it was the factory filter and it had metal clips to hold the lines on the filter, the new one came with plastic ones but i reused the metal one, they semed a little safer.
my bad, i wasn't thinking when i replied to that, you was talkin to the other guy, sorry about that, but done typed it now.
my bad, i wasn't thinking when i replied to that, you was talkin to the other guy, sorry about that, but done typed it now.
Last edited by jimbob21rc; Mar 11, 2005 at 12:46 AM.
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found it
I found out what was going on, it wasn't on the high pressure line, it was on the return line, cause on the truck, the return line runs right next to the high pressure line, and when we put the return line on the fuel rail, only the shielding was hooked attached, not the line itself. so the fuel was running between the fuel line and the shielding, coming right down next to the fuel filter.
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