97 disco. Before I totally round off the nuts, anybody have a secret to getting the fuel filter nuts loose?
Can't get the fuel filter out...
- Thread starter mburnett
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I don't have the inline filter that bolts to the frame anymore. But if I recall, the filter is threaded clockwise on one end and counter-clock on the other end. Are you sure you are not trying to take it off using the clockwise turn on both sides? If it doesn't loosen one way, then go the other way.
I could be wrong on this.
I could be wrong on this.
ptschram
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Carefully cut the crimp ferrule off the piece of pipe that is attached to the truck. Once you get the ferrule off, there is ahose barb beneath it.
Hose clamps were good enough for the early NAS trucks...
The fittings are both RHT.
Hose clamps were good enough for the early NAS trucks...
The fittings are both RHT.
Ah, Leave it to P.T. to make it easy. I hadn't thought about removing the hose from the tubing...
ptschram said:
Did you change the style of filter to a hose barb type and get rid of the tubing huts all together. If so what filter did you convert to.
Looks like the wix 33161from the early Range rover is the ticket. It just has plane hose barbs on it. http://www.wixfilters.com/filterlookup/PartDetail.asp?Part=33161
Make sure one uses high presure fuel injection hose on it.
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After I got the filter off, I put the nut in a vise and torqued on the filter with an open end wrench and I couldn't get either end to budge. I already had purchased a fuel filter to fit so I took my Dremel with abrasive discs and cut off the ends of the old filter - then sliced the nut part of the filter end and separated them with a chisel. The fittings were rusted pretty bad. I cleaned them on the wire wheel and put them in the new filter with never-sieze and new o-rings. Then 2 pieces of fuel line hose and clamps and we're back in business.