How to: Fuel Filter...

660Ryder · 11-29-2006, 10:01 PM

My fuel filter has never been changed (to my knowledge) and the Rodeo is rolling around the big 100k mark soon. I was wondering if there is a thread/page with instructions and/or pictures to aid me. I'm not a complete moron (just replaced the exhaust system by myself

) but I don't want to make a stupid mistake and end up with more than a $10 parts bill. Any things I should watch to avoid or be careful of? Do I really need to remove the fuel pump fuse and all that jazz?

Thank you,
Alex

amigo-2k · 11-29-2006, 10:19 PM

http://isuzufaq.ibctech.ca/#faq16

Canucklehead · 11-30-2006, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amigo-2k

http://isuzufaq.ibctech.ca/#faq16

That FAQ is a good procedure except that the fuel filter on a first gen Rodeo is on the passenger's side frame rail just forward of the rear tire.

660Ryder · 11-30-2006, 08:26 AM

Perfect! Thanks guys!

surferfletch · 11-30-2006, 01:02 PM

10 minute job.
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...ht=fuel+filter
This is from when I did mine a couple months ago.

highlandlake · 11-30-2006, 03:12 PM

...and put the penetrating lube to the threaded fittings well in advance to doing the job.
If there is corrosion/rust involved....it ain't no 10 minute job.

Take your watch off too. Fuel will spill down yer arm....

highlandlake · 11-30-2006, 03:16 PM

Hey! Surferfletch's photos showed no threaded fittings on the filter - just nipples. Mine had a nipple on one end, and pipe thread fitting on the other. Must have been swapped out in the past to a different style?
Sheez, maybe it is a ten minute job 660!

surferfletch · 11-30-2006, 03:31 PM

I wondered if mine was the factory filter or not. It was an AC filter and had been there since I bought the truck with 30K or so. Is mine the odd one?

highlandlake · 11-30-2006, 06:05 PM

When I bought my '97, it had a fairly new filter and a new section of fuel line from the filter towards the tank. So it could have been a non-original style of filter that happened to fit the steel line that was used.
I'd like to know for certain, cause I have a new fuel filter in that box o' parts I have for sale, and want to make sure I've described it right.
Can someone with a '94 - '97 take a peek under their rig and see if the filter has two nipples or just one. (I like saying 'nipples')
Tom

Canucklehead · 12-01-2006, 06:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by highlandlake

When I bought my '97, it had a fairly new filter and a new section of fuel line from the filter towards the tank. So it could have been a non-original style of filter that happened to fit the steel line that was used.
I'd like to know for certain, cause I have a new fuel filter in that box o' parts I have for sale, and want to make sure I've described it right.
Can someone with a '94 - '97 take a peek under their rig and see if the filter has two nipples or just one. (I like saying 'nipples')
Tom

He said nipples...

err, anyways, back to the issue at hand.

Two nipples.

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