I was cleaning the car and started it up, noticed a drip, turns out its a tiny hole in the fuel filter - the fuel filter is same size as a tin of beans - does the replacement have to be the same size or can i use any ?
Is it injection? If so probably... Injection filters are quite chunky because they have to filter quite a lot of fuel because the pump is pretty much running flat out (even if most of the fuel is returning to the tank via the regulator unused).
Cheers - bloody lucky I noticed it before i set the thing on fire
!!!!
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Originally posted by Blackcab
Cheers - bloody lucky I noticed it before i set the thing on fire
!!!!
just put fire extinguisher on my list of things to get tomorrow
quote:Yeah, big fat 3L foam one is my favorite. Smaller foam one in car.
Originally posted by Blackcab
just put fire extinguisher on my list of things to get tomorrow
Mine is powder in the car. Messy, but effective.
I had a plastic & paper filter before the fuel rail, and as i was pulling into the petrol station after the MOT, i got a BIG smell of fuel, but i
wasnt on the forecourt yet.
So, i opened up the back, and the filter had popped! Trouble is, the filter is about 150mm from the exhaust, so there was fuel all over the muffler
as well! 
After shitting myself for a while, i took the filter out, and ill put one into the main line BEFORE the pump! 
I put mounted one of mine in the car the day after the post the other week about the melted car 
New fuel filter and fire extinguisher being fitted tonight - feel like I had a lucky escape as the filter is mounted just below throttle bodies and could have easy ignited on a warm engine
New fuel filter and fire extinguisher being fitted tonight - feel like I had a lucky escape as the filter is mounted just below throttle bodies and could have easy ignited on a warm engine
If the filter is the huge one with a banjo fitting on each end that Ford used to use then yes you can probably get away with a smaller one.
I see cars with fuel leaks all the time. Many of them have been leaking for ages and, believe it or not, people ignore the smell. Fortunatly petrol
needs a spark or flame to ignite; It won't ignite without one or the other. On hot surfaces even white hot steel it'll just boil away and as
long as the area is ventilated you won't have a disaster.
adrian
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Originally posted by adithorp
If the filter is the huge one with a banjo fitting on each end that Ford used to use then yes you can probably get away with a smaller one.
I see cars with fuel leaks all the time. Many of them have been leaking for ages and, believe it or not, people ignore the smell. Fortunatly petrol needs a spark or flame to ignite; It won't ignite without one or the other. On hot surfaces even white hot steel it'll just boil away and as long as the area is ventilated you won't have a disaster.
adrian
sorry you are wrong 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_point
"gasoline is required to have a low flash point and high autoignition temperature"
just to clarify, in a low pressure environment, i.e. not in a combustion chamber, the vapour pressure wont be high enough for autoignition as it will
"boil" off too quickly.
also got to agree with adrian on the smaller filter thingy.. ford OEM is bucket sized but aftermarket alternatives are the size of a small pot of
marmite. I've got one you can have for a couple of ££ in fact.
[Edited on 5/10/09 by cd.thomson]
[Edited on 5/10/09 by cd.thomson]
Cheers - New fuel filter fitted and all seems ok - not taken any chances though and have got a fire extinguisher on board now.
Not sure what caused the damage so have checked everything I can do and cant see anything obvious other than the bracket that holds it, given it a
good clean and put a few layers of insualtion tape between the flter and the bracket .... fingers crossed !
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
sorry you are wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_point
"gasoline is required to have a low flash point and high autoignition temperature"
just to clarify, in a low pressure environment, i.e. not in a combustion chamber, the vapour pressure wont be high enough for autoignition as it will "boil" off too quickly.
also got to agree with adrian on the smaller filter thingy.. ford OEM is bucket sized but aftermarket alternatives are the size of a small pot of marmite. I've got one you can have for a couple of ££ in fact.
[Edited on 5/10/09 by cd.thomson]
[Edited on 5/10/09 by cd.thomson]