How do you know when to do fuel filter?
Post Fiend
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From: Lancaster, Pa.
Tuff question but a good one. I been keeping track of my fuel filter changes over the course of a 123,000 mile and trying to stay with the same fuel stations whenever possible, I can change mine at about 20,000 to 25,000 miles. They are a little discolored but not major dirty, if you get my drift. The fuel around here and where I used to live is fairly clean. Keep a log in your maintance book, it will help you to determine your intervals..
More Turbo
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From: Frankfort, KY
If you have a fuel pressure gauge, it will show lower fuel pressure when time to change the fuel filter. Some people put a vacuum gauge in front of the filter. I have an electric fuel pressure gauge.
Postmaster
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From: Glen Rose,Texas
As Pop's said it is a very good question and can save you some heart ache and money down the road by keeping a good filter installed.I am really **** about maintenance on my trucks so I change my oil at 5k and fuel filter at 10k.This may be too often but I like to look in the bowl and see if there is anything in there plus a filter is a cheap way to keep things clean....Just my .02....Everybody is different and that is fine as well.
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just change it at the suggested interval of 15k miles and youll be fine. my fuel bowl filter is obsolete however since i have a regulated return and it came with a 2 micron pre-pump filter. ive been thinking about removing the bowl but i like the drain to help bleed any extra air out of the system.......
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Postmaster
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From: Glen Rose,Texas
I do not see anything wrong with that.I do the same just every other OIL CHANGE.I keep all of it written in a book so I have a record of it and do not get out of order.
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More Turbo
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From: Frankfort, KY
Wow, that is a big waste of money, unless you have really bad diesel stations in your area, or you are getting the filters very cheaply.
Post Fiend
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From: Dallas-Ft. Worth
Every oil change is probably a little overkill. Every other is pretty good if you go 7k or so on an OC. Since I have a pre-filter, I physically look at mine every OC and decide from there. It stays pretty clean with the pre-pump filter (which I change about every other OC).
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From: Yuba City, CA.
Every oil change is probably a little overkill. Every other is pretty good if you go 7k or so on an OC. Since I have a pre-filter, I physically look at mine every OC and decide from there. It stays pretty clean with the pre-pump filter (which I change about every other OC).
Learned to go every other oil change!
Post Fiend
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From: Dallas-Ft. Worth
Yep -- mine saved my butt already. Got a load of bad fuel and about half way to work one morning it did what you're talking about. Popped into the parts store & replaced it with another and back on the road I was in 20 mins. If I didn't have the pre-pump filter, I imagine it would've been much more messy.
