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post Jan 1, 2006 - 4:07 PM
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Hey guys I was reading bulldog's post on his filter troubles and it reminded me of mine. I changed my stock fuel filter (the original one that came on the car from the factory) at 160,000 miles. It was a huge pain to remove, just like everyone else, and I replaced it with an Advanced Auto filter (purolator, I think?) instead of one from the dealer (big mistake). Well, when I rolled over 250,000 miles last year I tried to swap it again, only this time the purolator one I bought wouldn't fit. The threads on the bottom were too tight. So I put the old one back on, went to Toyota and ordered a new one. I also broke the mounting bracket (don't ask) and when the Toyota one showed up it came with a new bracket, too, which was nice. However this time when I put this one on (it went on just fine) fuel was leaking from the bottom no matter how tight I got it. I used a mirror and had one of the guys in the garage I was using check it for me and it was definitely coming straight down the fuel line. I pulled it off and stared at the bottoms of both filters side by side, and the mating surface (the nipple inside the filter past the threads where the flared part of the line mates up) from the purolator one was bigger than the Toyota one. I put the purolator back on, and no leaking. This leads me to believe that the first time I switched it, the purolator filter reformed the flared end of my fuel line and enlarged it so that when I went back to a Toyota filter the flared part of the line couldn't get a good fit because it had been stretched by the old filter and wasn't mating up right. Anyways, now I need to know how bad it's going to be to fix it because I'll either need the flared part of the fuel line repaired (is that even possible?) or have a new fuel line run. Anyone have experience with this? I'd love to ignore it, but this filter has got over 100k on it now which scares me a little bit.
 
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post Jan 2, 2006 - 7:00 PM
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Hmmm, good question. I guess that would still involve removing it so I could get the fuel out of the line, but that might be less than buying a part.

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