Just a note for new 150 TD owners that actually take the car off road and may have to tackle a fuel filter change on the side of the road. My truck had a slight miss in it, so I decided to change the new (5500km old) fuel filter out for a new one. Thankfully, the filter change sorted the slight miss and it's running sweet as..
I was alittle shocked when I tried to undo the float on the bottom of the filter, siezed solid from the factory. The same for the filter on the filter base. I ended up using a large shifter on the float housing (bloody carefully) and a Rigid filter strap on the filter to remove it. Seems that the factory turkeys like to fit these filters tight as hell, with zero lube on the o rings.
I sorted mine, but thought it might be worth knowing, if you have to tackle a filter on the side of the road, with very little tooling.
I was alittle shocked when I tried to undo the float on the bottom of the filter, siezed solid from the factory. The same for the filter on the filter base. I ended up using a large shifter on the float housing (bloody carefully) and a Rigid filter strap on the filter to remove it. Seems that the factory turkeys like to fit these filters tight as hell, with zero lube on the o rings.
I sorted mine, but thought it might be worth knowing, if you have to tackle a filter on the side of the road, with very little tooling.
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