Fuel Filter Replacement Instructions???

[HBarlow]

I'm planning to take off next week for a few weeks of wandering, pulling my fiver, and expect to roll over 15,000 miles on the road.



When that happens I'll want to change the fuel filter. I don't have a clue how to change the filter on the 6. 7.



Can anyone provide basic instructions on 6. 7 engine fuel filter replacement?



Your advice will be appreciated.

 

[EB]

According to Dodge the way to do it is to take the left front wheel off, remove the inner fender and remove the filter. I've done it like that, works fine, gives you the most access. The way I do it now is to jack the truck up from the frame, (lets the wheel drop down) and remove the inner fender. I'm sure you will get all kind of answers for your question, but my arms are to short to reach it from under and my arms scratch and bruise to much to do it from the top. (that's what age will do for you) It isn't as easy as the early third gen trucks but it is a better filtering system. Good luck.



EB

 

[CBrabston]

Harvey, I had the same problem with the fuel filter. It is impossible for me with short arms to change or drain the fuel filter. Finally took it to a dealer and they changed from the botton on the rack about 2/3 up and loosened from the front and removed fron the back. $35. 00 labor charge. Still no way to periodically drain.

 

[HBarlow]

Thanks EB and CBrabston.



I'm disappointed that Cummins has given us such a poor design from the viewpoint of servicability. This thing is going to be an aggravation every time the filter needs changing.



I could change the fuel filter on my '01 and '06 in five minutes anywhere I was stopped for a few minutes.



I forgot to ask the question but you answered about draining water. What's with that? The cannister is eventually going to accumulate water from diesel fuel. I fumbled and looked at the cannister with a flashlight from below recently and couldn't figure out how to drain it but figured it was just me who couldn't find the lever.



I'm not impressed.

 

[grasmo]

Mine has a drain petcock?/ thumbscrew on the bottom. also I paid $20 for my filters at the Dodge dealer when they told me they were only $20 I said give me 4 of them. I am certain they were priced wrong! Mine included the housing ,the cartridge & the sensor with wiring. What did you guys pay?

 

[Cattletrkr]

They are chep compared to most things you get at the deaer. I paid $33 for two of them and yes it is the whole cannister/drain and everything.

Draining water... I tried that once. On a relaticely new filter the drain didn't work. The whole dang thing came off before any fuel came out. Old filter was the same. What a bleeping mess. From now on the water gets dumped when the filter gets changed. If Dodge/Cummins want me to drain it, they can come out here and show me how. Apparently I'm too dumb to figure out a thumbscrew.

The change is a major PITA compared to the last type of filter. I think the easiest would be to do as they say, drop the wheel and fender liner. I'll save that for when my arms shorten with age. For now, I contort myself just enough to get the swap done. Usually that leaves me with an armfull of fuel, a couple wear marks, and a lot of lost religion.

Luckily, I have a FP gauge and that's what will tell me to change the filter. We'll see how long one of these suckers can go.

 

[EB]

The only way I've found to get it to drain water is to loosen the drain and turn the key on to start the pump. Once it is started it will drain. I've really never gotten enough water out of it to worry about. They are not expensive at all. I get a commercial discount and pay a little over $10 each buying a case at a time. I change mine about every 15k.



EB

 

[DanSullivan]

What I found when I changed the filter was when you open the drain nothing came out . I put a short length of plastic pipe to a bottle to catch it all and nothing. but when you first crack the seal on the filter it all dumps out and leaves very little in the filter so you don't get a bunch down your arm. I do mine the way EB does his seems to work the best and you can see what you are doing.

 

[HBarlow]

I called my friend who was a Dodge dealership mechanic several years ago when I met him. He is still a mechanic but now works on all sorts of Volvo agricultural and offroad heavy equipmennt.



He had never seen one of the new 6. 7 filters but changed it in a few minutes and we studied the old one after it was out.



I can now offer practical "instructions" for changing the filter. I think I'll start a new thread for anyone looking for information.

 

[gustapus]

I called my friend who was a Dodge dealership mechanic several years ago when I met him. He is still a mechanic but now works on all sorts of Volvo agricultural and offroad heavy equipmennt.



He had never seen one of the new 6. 7 filters but changed it in a few minutes and we studied the old one after it was out.



I can now offer practical "instructions" for changing the filter. I think I'll start a new thread for anyone looking for information.

I searched the forums, and apparently you didn't start your thread with "practical" info on filter changing... ... or did you and I just can't find it!

Gonna jack it up with the frame so the wheel drops, then go in through the wheel well without removing liner. Seen tighter accesses before... ... will give me more room underneath, too.

 

[Jim W]

I believe this has been covered very early on when the 6. 7L engine was introduce. It even appeared in the TDR magazine issue on how to change the fuel filter. What you need to remember is to allow the filter to drain before removing the filter entirely.

I open the start wheel for the water in fuel drain and then slowly loosen the filter so I break the seal and air can enter. This will allow about 1/2 of the filter to drain. You then need to take a plastic baggie a gallon size bag place around the filter and loosen up to where the filter can be removed. This will capture the remaining fuel oil and prevent a mess.

Jim

 

[EricBu12]

here is my first fuel filter change report

https://www.turbodieselregister.com...ons-2007-5/222949-first-ff-change-report.html

 

[KLauber]

I'm planning to take off next week for a few weeks of wandering, pulling my fiver, and expect to roll over 15,000 miles on the road.



When that happens I'll want to change the fuel filter. I don't have a clue how to change the filter on the 6. 7.



Can anyone provide basic instructions on 6. 7 engine fuel filter replacement?



Your advice will be appreciated.

If you wander over this way for some reason, give a shout. There is Paris Mtn State Park just 2 miles from our house.



Ken

 

[HBarlow]

I searched the forums, and apparently you didn't start your thread with "practical" info on filter changing... ... or did you and I just can't find it!
Gonna jack it up with the frame so the wheel drops, then go in through the wheel well without removing liner. Seen tighter accesses before... ... will give me more room underneath, too.

I did post the procedure a couple years ago but I think Robert Patton put it in a new forum for helpful suggestions or something like that.

 

[HBarlow]

If you wander over this way for some reason, give a shout. There is Paris Mtn State Park just 2 miles from our house.

Ken

Thanks Ken but I think this is a very old thread recently ressurected. I think my post saying I was going wandering was two years ago in August 2008.

I am thinking pretty seriously once again about wandering. (That's what I do best now. ) My summer season of mowing grass and weeds is nearing a close and I am giving serious thought to a trip to VT and NH with my fifth wheel to see the fall colors. The trip probably won't take me through northwestern SC although I have looked at a map and considered going all the way to the east coast area before turning north.

I lived in CT for ten years back in the '60s - '70s and have traveled through VT and NH several times over the following years but have never selected those states as a destination and taken time to just wander through the small towns and villages. That's my plan.

 

[bheiting]

If all else fails, consult the factory service manual. I found one online for my '07 for $17.
Check ebay.

 

[KLauber]

Thanks Ken but I think this is a very old thread recently ressurected. I think my post saying I was going wandering was two years ago in August 2008.



I am thinking pretty seriously once again about wandering. (That's what I do best now. ) My summer season of mowing grass and weeds is nearing a close and I am giving serious thought to a trip to VT and NH with my fifth wheel to see the fall colors. The trip probably won't take me through northwestern SC although I have looked at a map and considered going all the way to the east coast area before turning north.



I lived in CT for ten years back in the '60s - '70s and have traveled through VT and NH several times over the following years but have never selected those states as a destination and taken time to just wander through the small towns and villages. That's my plan.

That sounds like a fine trip! I'm about 10 years (hopefully less) from picking up and running around like that. Enjoy the cool crisp mornings up in the NE. THey won't arrive here for about 40 days or so.



Ken

 

[HBarlow]

A NH fall colors website I was recently browsing says third week of September. The fall colors begin earlier farther north and slowly move south.

 

[46mech]

Well, I'm glad this got resurrected because I'm at the point of changing the fuel filter (the first by me) so this was helpful. But... ... is there a procedure for priming the system after changing the filter like there was for my old '95?

 

[EricBu12]

No. The HPCR system is self priming. Just bump the starter a couple times