Re: Gratitude followed by fuel fileter question

[srubano@xxxx]

The fuel filter is located under the car on the drivers side right 
near the rear wheel. If you go under the car (from under the door 
area) and work your way back you'll see it just behind and up from 
the rear driver side wheel (right next to the crossover exhaust pipe) 
I took a picture of where it will be and posted it in the Files 
section, I hope it's clear enough: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/files/Bosch%20fuel%20filter/. 
I named it Location.jpg. In case the link dosn't work, go to the 
files section and look for Bosch fuel filter.
Just one word of Caution....if you use the Bosch Fuel filter...DO NOT 
OVER TIGHTEN IT....you'll cut off/restrict the flow of the fuel and 
you will have a no start problem resulting from it. The trick is to 
use some Teflon tape (I got the yellow kind that is fuel resistive 
from Home Depot but the regular white one should suffice). Use 
something small enough to fit into the "input side" of the new fuel 
filter to measure how far in that black bubble is. Then mark off for 
reference on the threaded nipple (black permanent ink marker) so you 
don't go that far in. Thread it on by hand just a little and Tighten 
down the top banjo fitting to torque spec. Run the fuel pump (don't 
start the car). Check for leaks...if there is a leak then tighten it 
a little by hand until it doesn't leak. You may need to loosen
the 
Banjo fitting when turning the filter to tighten it. Once you have it 
where it's not leaking then try starting her up. If your D has a hard 
time starting (and it didn't before) you may have tightened it to 
much and the threaded nipple on the input side of the filter may be 
pressing against or is to close to that black bubble restricting fuel 
flow. I'm using the Purolator filter that doesn't have that black 
bubble in it and you don't have to worry about over tightening it. 
You can check out the pictures (and part number of the Purolator 
filter) on the Files page: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/files/Bosch%20fuel%20filter



--- In dmcnews@xxxx, Travis Goodwin <tgoodwin@xxxx> wrote:
> Thanks to John Hervey and his website. My fan problem turned out to 
be
> simple ingorance. I thought the fans were activated when the blower 
was
> switched on... Au contrair. The AC compressor override was the one 
part I
> missed. Everything works just fine.
> 
> Now the question. The Workshop manual does a terrible job of 
describing the
> location of the fuel filter. Can anyone give me its specific 
location? Is
> there anything I should know before replacing it. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Travis
> VIN 3512