fuel filter O ring ?

[luna]

with the new fuel filters coming from
Geno's there is no O ring for the center shaft like the old filters. can
I get these somewhere or will a generic O ring work ? thanks for the help.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

They posted on here a couple of weeks ago about this - Fleetguard stopped putting the o-ring in the kit and you're supposed to reuse the old one unless somethings wrong with it. They are supposed to start including the O-ring again in the near future because of complaints about it.

 

[JohnE]

The canister stem seal is premounted to the filter element same as the other seals. It also rides higher on the stem than the old o-ring so it shouldn't cause any problems.



Funny, no one is complaining the price for the new filter element is around $5. 00 less than the old element.



-John

 

[gitchesum]

I was told by the Cumins guy that there is a seal inside the new filter and the o-ring isn't needed. However, I have noticed the holddown boly on my filter housing is a little damp. I'm guessing that littel seal isn't doing it's job very well.



I might put an extra o-ring in there just to see.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Then he's wrong gitch. Straight from Fleetguard they stopped including the o-ring that went on the center stud because 99% of the time it can be reused. But so many people are thinking that it's no longer necessary because they aren't including it that they are planning on including it again.

 

[Mingoglia]

I sure hope they start including it again. I've only replaced one... the original when I hit 15,000 miles on my '01. Since i had never replaced one before, I asumed that I had the right replacement filter. Well, I took the old one out, and guess what... I had the older style filter. OK, I decide to put the old one back in so I can head to the store and the O-ring was swelled and I couldn't get it back in for the life of me. Everytime I started to get it tight enough, it would sneak out from between the filter housing and the lid. After the third attempt, the O-ring ripped.



Since I had no choice (my wife just left for work), I called my Chevy owning father-in-law and asked him to drive me to the store. The Cummins shop is about 40 minutes away so I felt bad having him drive me there in such short notice. I ended up going to the stealer... Well, $49 later!!!!!! I had a $15 Fleetguard filter. After the first time around, I sure do like the idea of a nice tight new o-ring.