1996 fuel filter
Racer
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From: Huntsville AL
Passenger side on the back side of where your right foot falls when sitting in the passenger seat. I haven't done mine yet, but it has been suggested here on the forums that you remove the right hand lower fender section behind the front wheel. This is the same panel you remove on the left side to remove the main battery. This about the only way to get a wrench on the top fitting on the filter.
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Pro
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From: Cape Coral Florida
Passenger side on the back side of where your right foot falls when sitting in the passenger seat. I haven't done mine yet, but it has been suggested here on the forums that you remove the right hand lower fender section behind the front wheel. This is the same panel you remove on the left side to remove the main battery. This about the only way to get a wrench on the top fitting on the filter.
Melting Slicks
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From: Ottawa Ontario
Easier to just disconnect the braided line at the fuel pressure regulator that goes to the filter. You'll need a fuel line disonnect tool, but they're pretty cheap compared to trying to undo that front line at the filter.
Racer
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Melting Slicks
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From: folsom california
I changed the fuel filter on my 96 from the bottom; no hassle except getting my fat **** under the car using just wheel ramps under the front wheels.
be forewarned that whichever way you get to the fuel filter, that you will spill a significant amount of gas. so be careful; once you get the original loosened, have the new one right at hand (not on some bench on the other side of the garage) ready to go right in .
be forewarned that whichever way you get to the fuel filter, that you will spill a significant amount of gas. so be careful; once you get the original loosened, have the new one right at hand (not on some bench on the other side of the garage) ready to go right in .
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Pro
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Cool good advice thanks, I was planning on bleeding off fuel pressure either pull fuse and start engine or schrader valve and bleed off pressure ,
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I did mine a couple weeks ago on an 89 but it still the same.
I waited until about an 1/8 of a tank of gas and then I pull the fuel pump fuse and started the car until it died. Then I opened the gas tank cap. barely any fuel spilled out when I did this, all I had to do was just hose a little bit off because I like to be cautious when it probably was not even necessary (Just some dribbles from what was still in the line).
I waited until about an 1/8 of a tank of gas and then I pull the fuel pump fuse and started the car until it died. Then I opened the gas tank cap. barely any fuel spilled out when I did this, all I had to do was just hose a little bit off because I like to be cautious when it probably was not even necessary (Just some dribbles from what was still in the line).
Pro
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From: Austin TX
On my 92, I took a Craftsman wrench, I think a 17mm (whatever the size is on the filter) and bent the open end 90 degrees. I had to torch it for a while until red hot to bend it. I then put a pipe through the closed end of the wrench. It will reach up to the top of the filter. Works much better than trying to reach up there with your hand for the hold wrench. I use a flare nut wrench for the fuel line flare nuts.
With all the ethanol in the fuel today, you will be changing the filters more frequently as ethanol absorbs moisture from the air and gets caught in the fuel filter/water separator.
Just saying..
With all the ethanol in the fuel today, you will be changing the filters more frequently as ethanol absorbs moisture from the air and gets caught in the fuel filter/water separator.
Just saying..
Mine is easy to change with the aftermarket cat on it, lots more room.
Racer
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From: Huntsville AL
