You know how pissed you are going to be if the tech walks up and changes that filter in a few seconds without any pain or fuss.

I am a mechanic and I always like it when a customer comes in telling me how they tried to do something and couldnt figure it out and I get it done with my eyes closed.

 

You got to be missing something. I am not a pro but never had a problem with it. Try getting it past the drive line further back down the frame and feeding it up.

 

I agree, it isn't that difficult, conceptually. Maybe I should tenderly try to unhook the hard lines in front of the pump, both up and down from the pump, to see if they gives them more play so that I can squeeze the filter in and out.

I will try that this afternoon and see if the area enlarges if I do that. I just hate messing with those lines too much.

 

the lines can be pushed out of the way

 

Yeah, I got a $100 quote from the dealer to do the fuel filters, so I am determined to do it myself.

I will try to unlatch some of those lines and see if I can make space.

 

I'm glad I have 2wd.

 

How much trouble is it to add a short extension and re-route the fuel lines, or perhaps even relocate the entire HFCM unit?

 

I know that that activity is beyond both my desire and abilities, currently. But installing the HFCM on the backside of the TC would have eliminated any and all of the crying I have been doing in this thread. Just installing the thing 18" down the frame would have been so much more convenient.

 

Installing the water trap under the truck was one of the stupidest things Ford has ever done. Right up there with the Edsel.

I kid you not!

 

If you can find a E series, it uses a Vertical Fuel Conditioning Module that is far easier to work on...

And it is mounted on the outer side of the rail

 

There has to be an engineering thought process behind the placement and design. Whether or not those thoughts are based on common sense, we will probably never know. I have a feeling that some, if not most, design choices are aimed at funneling the owners into the service departments of dealerships!!

 

Or plain old fashioned stupidity.

 

I'd be careful with that term.


Ford's engineers may be a lot of things, but I don't think stupid is one of them.

 

Will be glad to give you a list of decisions they made that qualified for the bone head award.

 

Stupid is as stupid does, Sir!