Wow. I just put the old beveled O-Ring in and it isn't leaking. I guess I just got a POS filter. Last time I go to freakin' Autozone! I thought "it's just a filter, how could they screw that up?" Well, I guess they managed to. But, if I want a pine tree air freshener, I know where to go.

 

Might have just been a bum o-ring. Or maybe got pinched the first time that you put it in. It has happened to others.

 

What is the problem here? It was leaking, then fixed? Then you di##ed with it? If you have the stock lid, use a large strap wrench, channel locks, filter strap/wrench, or even gorilla grip it by hand. I have never used oil on mine and never had a leak, Are you sure the oring is oriented correctly. This is a simple procedure. If it does not seal, something is wrong, as in the wrong or inferior parts.

Could this leak be from elsewhere?

EDIT: OK, good. Sounds like inferior parts.

 

Fram makes a fuel filter for our trucks they has a place for a 1/2 inch drive in the middle of the cap. Not a big fan of fram but it makes it easy to take on and off. It is sold with cap and filter.

 

Someone said they had gotten a fuel filter @ Autozone and had no trouble with it.....what brand would THAT have been??

 

So I should chunk that fram in the garbage?

And he said he got a filter from autozone and did have a problem with the o-ring. So I'm really not following your statement.

 

Try taking it back, it's a defective part.

 

The cap is made for using a 1/2" drive ratchet.

 

TENNASEE01PSD350 Good call defective parts.Why is it you can tell by the way he or she types you know they that they just f--ked up?

 

Filter lid is made to be tightened by using a 1/2" drive ratchet. Snug only. If you have to tighten really hard there something wrong with the seal.

 

LOL. I was actually watching TV while I typed that post. It took so long to type it that there were several more posts before I finished it. When I posted it, I saw that he had found the problem.

It is funny though, sometimes I can tell by what someone types where the problem may be. Sometimes it is something I have done myself , but usually it is something we have seen here before.

 

The first time I changed the fuel filter, I think it was wix filter that i put in. It came with a new cap, an O ring, and a filter without the tabs. The instructions said to use fuel to lube the O ring.

The filter cap that was there had a square for a 1/2" ratchet. The one that i put on from the Wix filter did not have a 1/2" drive socket on it. The O ring leaked from the first time I started it. After a couple of days of putting up with a leak I replaced the wix cap with the cap that had been on there, the one with the socket on it. That stopped the leak. I thought. The next day on the return trip to the barn I noticed a lot of gray smoke pouring out the exhaust as I accelerated from a stop. I thought it was coming from the exhaust

Next morning I looked under the truck and there were a few spots of fuel but nothing bad. An hour later as the sun was breaking the sky I ended up shutting down a freeway with a cloud of gray smoke so thick and so huge that the whole 5 lane highway stopped behind me about a mile. No joke.

I pulled over and fuel was pouring off the back of the engine like a garden hose running down a driveway.

I piulled the air intake, tightened the lid as much as possible but it as already tight. I drove a few miles to a spot where I could work on it. I removed the lid, the O ring and then used motor oil to lube the O ring, and reseated the O ring and lid. It took several tries to get it to seat completely flat without the beveled O ring rolling up.

That solved the problem for that day. After that I only used the flat O rings and I switched to, I think, the cheapest filters at Napa, a generic brand. These have flat O rings and I change the filter every 3 months anyway.

Oh, remember I thought the gray smoke was coming out of the exhaust. It wasn't. It was comming off the exhaust pipe and rolling out from the right rear. Turns out the fuel was running down bell housing and traveling the pipe and burning off along the pipe.

BTW, I don't drain the fuel bowl to pull the filter. I use a double plastic bag, pull the filter up slowly and gently, wrapping the filter into the bag. I wipe the rim and the lid clean and place the new filter into the bowl very slowly till the filter is all the way in. There is no extra cranking required to start.

My thinking is the pump drains down when the bowl is empty and that reduces life on the pump. Could have just been my pump, which I ended up replacing at 250K.