Kam B

All, i am going to service my car and was wondering if its a tough tricky job to do the fuel filter on my fiesta tdci

im a confident home mechanic and the car needs a service

RichieST

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Easy enough to change, can be a pig to bleed though and car won't start if there's trapped air in the system! Personally, if it's your daily car I'd do the rest of the service and have someone else do the filter for the sake of half hour labour, their problem when it won't start then

cit-tech

easy all push fit pipes ,then hand pump it will self bleed

Kam B

is the hand pump to the left of the air filter?

also where is it

will it make much difference if i change it? i havent seen it in the service record

Kam B

also will i need clean 2 litres of diseasel?

matts zetec s tdci

this is what i did on my 1.6 because i read they were a paint to get started agen

Kam B

Iv taken your advice and not done the fuel filter lol

Don't the rest of service though inc the.brakes

First time iv touched tools inyears, quite therapeutic and enjoyable

Still got it.ya complete set of bastids

saph4be

Never had a diesel engine not start first time after changing filter I ALLWAYS fill filter with fresh diesel before fitting and not had a problem!

Steve Hodges

changed filter on mine filled with fuel now t wont start its the 1.4 tdci even the garage havent got any ideas why it dont go even tried refitting the old filter still no luck engine management is also on now i need help

studabear

light has prob come on due to low fuel pressure, have you hand primed the filter?

Glenn_

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There easy enough to do on these engines. Like said above when I change fuel filters I put some smelly diesel in the filters.

GVK.

As said, if you prime it using the hand primer that's near the bulkhead on top of the engine BEFORE trying to start it, you should have no problems, if you haven't primed it before starting it, then yes you can have problems as you've filled the whole system with air.