A weird thing just happened. A funny light came on on the rt side with a funky right arrow. Looked it up in the mauel and it's the Filter Minder so I raised the hood and observed the filter minder was broke where the clear plastic connects to the black plastic. Actually the whole black end was laying down and the spring was lying on the frame. Is this just a weird coincidence or what's going on. I haven't taken the filter out yet to inspect it.

Thanks

 

My filter minder fell apart at the same time the truck (2004 F250 6.0L) puked the coolant back out of the expansion bottle while I was towing.

I was told that where the switch is located - just below the expansion bottle means that the hot coolant lands right on it and weakens the glue.

They are not cheap to replace either -- think I paid $36 at Ford for a replacement.

Truck is now sitting in the shop for new head gaskets, studs, EGR delete, oil cooler etc to cure the coolant issue.

PB

 

Yuk.....mine's already had the cooler and EGR replaced.....crossing my fingers on head gaskets....just spent $1165 on the turbo Y pipe replacement!

This filter minder issue just may be a maintenance issue......the glue and clear part of the plastic looks like somebody tried to twist it apart and broke it but I know nobody's touched it. The light never came on before to warn me of a filter issue. I think it just came on at the second the thing broke apart. Took the filter out and it's dirty....too dirty for me anyway so i'm going to replace it and the minder.

 

I know i'm jumping in here 4 years later, but i've got an 04 f250 and the back of my filter minder just blew and i'm getting the same light on my dash.. where do you find a filter minder replacement?

 

Best place Ford or International may have it.
After that you could try Autozone,O'Reilly,Car Quest
or Napa.I know I forgot others.

Sean

 

Has anyone tried rebuilding it? Someone tried patching mine together with electrical tape where the hard plastic seems prone to breaking, and it just came right apart. I tried patching it together in a rush with more tape, and I ended up getting the yellow diaphragm a little dirty. My light is still on, and I'm not happy with tape on there anyway. Wondering if anyone's had success with epoxy or the like???? Can a guy just delete it and monitor his filter the old fashioned way?

 

Every time the Air filter or degus comes out I bump that thing , what a very bad design

 

I so agree with you on that. It's a part wanting a reason to break.

Sean

 

Is the filter minder needed? I just looked and my truck has a bolt where it goes lol.

 

Using the filter minder is the best way to determine when you need to change the air filter. If you don't have one, I guess you just pick a mileage and change it. Some people get 50k miles out of the air filter, some get 100k.

The part is $12.50 at AutoNation WBL (formerly Tousley Ford) - normally $19.95

They hold up OK if they are not hit with something.

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I pull mine out every time I have to work in that area so I don't break it AGAIN... Bumped it one time and it broke as you describe. Nothing got lost so I put it back together and superglued the case back together. Functions fine...

I was too poor after buying injectors for another $15! :lol:

 

Mine broke too and I ordered another one from the local Ford dealership. Will the light go off once the new part gets here? It's hard for me to imagine how having that part in place will turn off the light since there are no electronics attached to it.

 

There is a wiring harness that plugs right into the side of the filter minder on mine.

(oddly, the second time I removed mine it did not give me a light inside. I ended up gluing broken filter minder back together and plugging it back in. Seems to work ok in there, but I'm wondering if it will turn on the light if it plugs up.)

 

You have a 15,000 buck engine. Spend the 20 bucks for a new one.

 

I'm just now jumping in on this discussion, and wanted to hear some more views. My filter minder has NEVER worked. You're supposed to be able to reset it by hitting the "Push here to reset" button but that button doesn't reset anything. In fact, when I pulled the minder apart, I saw that there's nothing behind the button, no electronics and no stem that might be used to push the spring back forward. So, essentially, this little piece of magic is a POS. Does anyone have a minder that actually works, or are they all just decorations?