Thread: 2.2l fuel filter change

Originally Posted by BigBlueOne

Hi all,

I hadn't changed mine in around 20,000km and the crap that was in the bottle afterwards was disgusting and not to mention due to the position of the fuel filter the old one had started to rust around the edges...

I'll be doing mine religiously every 10,000km from now on.

Cheers

10,000km is what I recommend and gets done on all my customers vehicles with an air filter (obviously oil n oil filter too).

Cant stress enough the importance of regular fuel filter changes on any common rail diesel engine.

Regards
Daz

I drained the filter in the RHS rear wheel arch this afternoon. 2 minute job (and this included 1m30s of me searching for something to drain into). Eventually found a 600ml solo bottle.

There was no water in my filter, however I did have some cruddy brown particles which could have either been dirt/crap off the bottom of the filter spout, or in the fuel.

In my 2.2, I cycled between ACC and OFF about 6 times. Then it fired straight up. While doing this there were some gurgling noises I heard that I've not heard before, but then again, I've never actually listened for that noise before.

100% will do again!

It's easy isn't it! I had put it off too long thinking it wouldn't start afterwards. I got the gargling sounds aswell so I grabbed a hold of the filter during the noise and I could feel the new filter filling up.

Also, I had a full tank of fuel when doing the filter change. I'm not sure if this is required but I'll do it again next time also just because it worked.

Land Rover Monthly latest issue p.181 answers a query about doing this on a 2.4 TDCI by saying there is an official bleed procedure using a hand held pump but its simpler to just fill the new filter with fuel, fit it and start the engine. There may be a misfire as some air passes. So it seems this is OK to do.

I wouldn't advise pre-filling your filter. The tolerances in the pumps and injectors in the newer diesel engines do not tolerate contaminants like they used to. Better just fit a 10 dollar priming bulb pump inline before your filter.

I know the naysayers call out the danger of pre-filling a filter
What if you placed a funnel in the centre inlet and poured your clean fresh diesel in that way? At least then any grub will get filtered before getting to outlet?
No different to the junk in the fuel tank

S

Apart from being strained before the pump usually. What's a hp fuel pump worth or an injector?

I'm curious. If you use clean diesel, and considering there is still another filter to go thru, what's the danger?

QUOTE=manofaus;2523606]I wouldn't advise pre-filling your filter. The tolerances in the pumps and injectors in the newer diesel engines do not tolerate contaminants like they used to. Better just fit a 10 dollar priming bulb pump inline before your filter.[/QUOTE]