Technical Fuel Filter and a few other bits

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Technical Fuel Filter and a few other bits

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Right, gonna run this past you lot and see what you think.

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The green arrow points to the screw that is well and truly rusted on. You can see the futile attempt I made armed with WD40...

The red arrow points to the plastic bracket, that from what I could see, this metal clip thing goes round the filter and through this mount.

Can I just cut this screw off, do away with this metal clip and replace it with an appropriately sized jubilee clip? Also Halfords mention two filter sizes, 45 and 60mm long IIRC. Its a '98 60s if anyone can help there, if not I'll just get the old one off and get a mate to get me to Halfords and get the right one.

BTW I'm replacing it because I've run it dry a few months ago :)o ) and nearly ran it dry a few days ago :)o :eek: ). It also looks like it's never been changed and the Haynes says do it at 20k (I'm nearing 65k)!

Also as part of my hunt the mis/backfire campaign, the Haynes troubleshooter keeps coming up with a leak in the vacuum at the throttle body. I'll check that out. Also as part of it's service I'm about to do oil, oil filter, plugs, air filter etc.

Which brings me on to my next query, I'm hoping Dave reads this:

I want to do an engine flush, I remember reading bottle of flush from Halfords just being hyped up diesel fuel. So just to double check, drain some of the old oil out and replace making the mixture about 1/4 diesel 3/4 oil and run at 2k revs for a few mins? Sounds dangerous! Maybe the Halfords Wynns flush stuff would be simpler?
 
Wooo, just changed:

Fuel filter - Halfords
Air filter - Champion
Oil filter - Champion
Spark Plugs - Bosch super 4
Oil - Selenia 20k

Along with an engine flush from Wynns.

The fuel filter made the pickup from low revs 10 times better, there's a tiny bit of complaining from the engine, but that's only when I get the biting point wrong.

Then the rest made everything silky smooth. On idle sitting at traffic lights I thought the engine had stalled, can't hear it or feel it, at all. Brilliant.

The fuel filter clip had to be junior hacksawed off, then I got a jubilee clip from the local motor factors and used that to reclip it in place. No leaks anywhere as of yet! (Touch wood) Pics to follow to illustrate for anyone looking to do the same.

All in all, job's a good'un, I'll have to wait a while to see if I've cured the missing and popping, but so far so good!(y)
 
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One of the easiest jobs that you could ever do, for very good gains if it hasn't been done in a while. Just replaced the clip with the jubliee clip pictured for about 70p. The filter hoses itself simply unclip and clip on, very simple.

You can also see the newly undersealed part at the top of the pic, somehow the jack point had been collapsed (been like that for ages), I knocked it back in with a block of wood and a hammer. Where it had been creased for this period of time, the original underseal had been cracked and so it wasn't a pretty sight rust wise. Just wire brushed it off, then sandpapered the hardcore rust, and gave it a coat of underseal. Looks good as new now. Also did a few other bits of the sills that had damage to the layer of underseal.
 
What size was the filter you got from halfrauds the 45 or 60ml one...might do mine a the weekend.
 
For some reason I was looking at some other dimension and didn't notice:eek:. I took the filter cover (the plastic surround the jubilee clip is touching) into Halfords and took the two possible filters out their boxes and matched them together. I actually got the wrong one LOL, they both fit well, but when I got home and compared old and new, the one I had bought was longer. It fits perfectly ok, so I honestly doubt theres much of a benefit from either filter, they both do the same job.

I would suggest you get the clip off, get the cover off, take a good look at the filter and measure it up, then at the store you can decide which one it is.
 
hey, is it easy to fit the fuel filter? do you just take the old one out, or are there other things that need doing?

thanks (y)
 
Hi there,

The fuel filter is literally just held in with that clip. Get the clip off, then you simply press and pull the connectors on either end to release them, a bit like an electrical plug clip on other areas of the car. Have a container ready to catch spilt fuel. It didn't come gushing out at a rate of knots for me however, just a slow piddle. Then push the connectors onto the new filter (making sure the filter is going to filter in the correct direction, marked on the side) until you hear them click into place. Then refit the plastic cover and jubilee clip.

It really is a 10 second job once you get past the clip (which is probabaly rusted).

As a bit of feedback, no popping or banging what so ever, engine runs smooth, doesn't miss at low revs anymore. The oil when it was going in new seemed a bit thinner however, and upon cold startup I get tappet noises, but they go away after a few seconds.
 
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