Who Can guess the mileage of this fuel filter?

[ScottBrown]

My guess is 8,478. 4 miles that is eight thousand four hundred seventy eight point four miles :-laf

 

[rbattelle]

Looks like mine that I changed at 10,020 miles. Cannister was clean. I dripped some diesel fuel on the new filter and it turned black just as your picture. I expect the filter to be black but I don't want to see any particles in the cannister!!

I changed my filter last weekend and took the time to examine inside the canister. Sure enough, there was a lot of large pieces of grit and dirt sitting in the bottom. I wiped it all out with a shop towel, but the only reason I even felt comfortable with doing so is I have a second filter mounted between the stock one and the injection pump, so it doesn't much matter if I get little pieces of lint and dirt into the system.



-Ryan

 

[ssanders60]

Fuel Filter Change

My vehicle is only a hobby truck, I change F/Filters about every

10,000 miles, air filter about every 19,000 to 20,000 miles, more

if it's dirty or light doesn't penetrate it. I do operate my truck when

it's real low on fuel, in theory that should keep the tank clean. My fuel

comes from Murphy Oil co. , (Walmart), it seems to be a lot more pale

than other brands, however Shell, Chevron, and Hess my other

alternates seem to be lighter in color compared to a year or so ago.





'03 2500 SLT, 4x4, 48RE, H/O, Quad Cab

 

[KBertetto]

That's a pretty nasty looking filter. I change mine every 10K (every 2nd oil change)

 

[ttreibel]

Mine looked worse than that at 15K

 

[Fireman]

You can do what you want but.....

I change mine about every 10K



Two years ago my brother and I were pulling a boat to FL, as we reached the GA line he was telling me how he had just had the truck serviced (oil change, trans lub change, etc) when the truck just stopped pulling. We got out and investigated, and I determined it wasn't getting enough fuel. I asked if he had the fuel filter changed... ... NO. I asked how long it had been since it had been changed... ... . he looked at his odometer and said 57K ! So there we sat on Sunday afternoon, a long way from home and no filter avalable. Once we found a filter (several days later) and replaced it the truck ran fine. Sometime later he began having injector problems. BTW, it was a D-Max.



Fireman

 

[thejeepdude]

I changed my first one at 15K and it looked about the same as that one. I have since installed a FP gauge post-filter, so as long as I'm getting efficient flow, who cares what color the filter is? I keep a spare in the truck in case I get some bad fuel (learned that lesson about 1500 miles from home!).

 

[OHale]

I changed mine the first time at 5K. Looked just like that.

 

[FAST4DR]

Changed mine today. Quick and easy, glad I didnt give DC the $100 they wanted to do it!

 

[FJfonda]

Oil changes at 5k, filter changes at 15K... . fuel and air. I have never changed a fuel filter that didn't look real nasty. Just as important... do you carry a spare fuel filter? Two in winter? Bad fuel is top on the short list of things that will put diesels into "sneaker mode".

 

[LightmanE300]

Cali600 I would bet that you definitely put a lot of extra wear on your fuel rail. Between 10-15k on fuel filters and mine haven't looked nearly as bad as yours - and only medium acceleration pulls the fuel pressure down to 0 in a second or maybe two. Especially if you pull a trailer or drive hard, you certainly had no fuel pressure.

 

[ChrisTucker]

You guys may laugh but I change my oil and fuel filter every 3,000 miles. I have a '90 chevy 6. 2 diesel that hauls a 10k lb enclosed construction trailer every dayand has had the oil and fuel filter changed every 3k since new. I now have 182,000 miles ,it starts on 1 crank and still runs like new. The injector pump usually only makes it to 90k but because of constant filter changes, It is over double its lifespan and still going strong. As a mater of fact, the only thing I have changed on the chevy engine is adding a Banks turbo system. Still on the original injector pump, injectors and all other engine parts. No oil leaks either. I will continue the same process on both my Dodges.

 

[Diesel Nut]

I change out the fuel filter every 13-15K religiously! And I keep a few onhand in case of need. Those center console under seat storage spaces are perfect for holding 4 fuel filters and a Thomas Guide and an inverter! BTW, I buy my filters from Cummins, 12 bucks each, as opposed to the 54 bucks at the dealer.

 

[DBrickel]

I have 173000 on my 95 and have changed the ff 4 times. My old filters never looked like that. In fact they hadn't been very discolored at all. I change the oil and oil filter every 6000 though.

 

[PHeadings]

Cali600 I would bet that you definitely put a lot of extra wear on your fuel rail. Between 10-15k on fuel filters and mine haven't looked nearly as bad as yours - and only medium acceleration pulls the fuel pressure down to 0 in a second or maybe two. Especially if you pull a trailer or drive hard, you certainly had no fuel pressure.

All the miles were through the TST CR Powermax, It's not a pressure box. 4000 miles were towing a 9000lb toyhualer.

 

[Allnew2Me]

I just changed my fuel filter for the first time this weekend. I bought the truck in December and thought I'd go ahead and change it. When I removed it it looked exactly like the picture, black and dirty. But upon closer inspection I could see that there was no debris, nothing loose on the element. I cut it in half and seperated the layers of filtering material and found that there were three. The innermost was a paper type material, then a spun fibrous material and on the outside was the black that you saw in the picture. The funny thing though was that the black was a printed pattern with lots of little white dots, in a regular pattern. It wasn't dirt or oil or anything on the paper but the paper itself. I just bought new Stratapore filters and they are bright white and this one was also a Stratapore so I'm wondering if they used to be black or is this some odd thing? Does anyone know if it was black when new or if this is some way of telling that it has been exposed to water or something?