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Posted by Al on Tuesday, August 14, 2007:

In Reply to: Fuel Filter posted by Jess on Tuesday, August 14, 2007:

Yes and maybe. Diesels don't complain much, but require perfectly clean and pure fuel, so you must change the filter on the following precise schedule: between every three months and every three years.

There's no engine-hour spec because in some locations fuel is delivered out of rusty drums and kept for use in open buckets. If it goes from a reliable supplier to a clean and sealed indoor plastic container and then into a clean fuel tank, the longer time is OK.

The fuel bowl is clear so you can routinely look for sediment at the bottom and for a horizontal line indicating condensation water in it. If either, shut off flow, remove bowl, empty, clean out, and inspect filter. If it looks perfect, you can re-use (clean in diesel and gently blow from the inside out), although they're cheap enough to replace. Then carefully re-install everything, bleed from the two screws, turn the flow back on, and check for leaks.

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