Dti fuel filter

[woody in shetland]

Hi guy's, I thought I'd post up after doing a few searches, I wondered about posting in the trouble shooting section but its not a problem yet. I was just wondering about people's opinion on changing the filter without the special pump. I bought a new filter today just as a bit of routine maintenance but after reading up about damaging the fuel pump I have been put off changing it as the car is fine at the moment. What's the general thoughts
Get a vx dealer to do it?
Or
Have a go (not keen on this option now)


Cheers

[Graham]

Special pump?

Just take the fuel filter housing lid off, remove filter, put new filter in and top up chamber with some diesel . Then crank like mad until it fires up. Not sure what you mean by special pump?

[plasma]

he means a primer. but i used to do the above, remove filter, fit new filter then refil housing with clean diesel, reattach top, pour in more through the bolt hole if u can, then clamp it down, fire it up, it may stall within a few seconds, but turn it over in 10-15sec bursts with 30secs inbetween and it'll fire up fine.

[mick.n]

That's the method i use on my Y20DTH. Fill it right up with clean diesel, top back on & it has always fired up as if the fuel system hadn't been disturbed........have never even had the need to crack the injector pipes off.

[woody in shetland]

Thanks guy's, put's my mind at ease. I'm usually fairly handy with the spanners but a simple filter had me worried lol. The haynes manual puts the wind up you with all that can go wrong inside the pump if run dry.

Yeah the primer tool i meant is an electric bleeder.