Dirtleg
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Yesterday I removed the valve covers and checked all the rocker arms/valves for wear and excessive play. They are all in seemingly good condition fortunately. While I was in there so to speak I went ahead and changed my fuel heater o-ring that was leaking. Piece of cake. I also put on a new WIX fuel filter. I reassembled everything, bled the fuel system and restarted to truck. There was a drip of fuel off the bottom of the filter. So I figured that maybe the water drain seal was leaking because I had just disturbed everything and put that on my list of things to fix.
Fast forward to today. No puddles under the truck and it starts right up. Must not be leaking too much. No noticeable air in the system. So I am going down the highway and I start smelling diesel really strongly. This can't be good. Fuel gauge had been dropping faster than normal as well. 1/4 tank in 30 miles. As I am near my destinination I just go there and pop the hood. Fuel is pouring out of the filter. It's coming from in between the water sensor/ drain cap and the bottom of the filter. I put in the new o-ring for that and was careful to make sure it stayed in the groove. Plus it was only a very minor drip after it was assembled.
So, I go get another new filter and tell them that when I remove my current, badly leaking one I want them to warranty it. Hell it was 20 hours old. I am not sure what caused the catastrophic failure. No apparent damage to the filter. Must have been a defect. It was dripping right away but so little it was only accumulating on the bottom of the filter cap thing. (what's that supposed to be called anyway)
I installed the new one and it's dry now. No drips at all.
Also, and I'm excited about this, I filled the new filter with power service before installing it and the truck started right up and ran first shot. I've not had good luck in that department before.
Fast forward to today. No puddles under the truck and it starts right up. Must not be leaking too much. No noticeable air in the system. So I am going down the highway and I start smelling diesel really strongly. This can't be good. Fuel gauge had been dropping faster than normal as well. 1/4 tank in 30 miles. As I am near my destinination I just go there and pop the hood. Fuel is pouring out of the filter. It's coming from in between the water sensor/ drain cap and the bottom of the filter. I put in the new o-ring for that and was careful to make sure it stayed in the groove. Plus it was only a very minor drip after it was assembled.
So, I go get another new filter and tell them that when I remove my current, badly leaking one I want them to warranty it. Hell it was 20 hours old. I am not sure what caused the catastrophic failure. No apparent damage to the filter. Must have been a defect. It was dripping right away but so little it was only accumulating on the bottom of the filter cap thing. (what's that supposed to be called anyway)
I installed the new one and it's dry now. No drips at all.
Also, and I'm excited about this, I filled the new filter with power service before installing it and the truck started right up and ran first shot. I've not had good luck in that department before.