For guys and gals driving a diesel car/truck or using any diesel equipment, how often do you replace your fuel filter and based on what? All diesel powered things have a recommended filter replacement interval, i guess it's something like every other oil change for my car.
I remember replacing filters that were in the car for about 60,000 km and cutting them open, it was fairly clean and the car made all it's power. Other times i got a batch of crap at the pump or i did a poor job at filtering alternative fuels thinking it was clean enough and clogged two filters in a thousand km.
To me a set replacement interval for the fuel filter is a bit like a set interval for emptying the ashtray... Never if you don't smoke. However there's something more to it that makes me think i should change my fuel filters more often: water contamination.
I guess this type of spin on filter retains water at the bottom even without a visible sediment bowl. As i said i sometimes use a bit of alternative fuels that i filter and old fuel i collect and filter. I would like my IP and injectors to last a not ingest liquids that aren't fuel. Does that theory hold water? (pun intended)
I remember replacing filters that were in the car for about 60,000 km and cutting them open, it was fairly clean and the car made all it's power. Other times i got a batch of crap at the pump or i did a poor job at filtering alternative fuels thinking it was clean enough and clogged two filters in a thousand km.
To me a set replacement interval for the fuel filter is a bit like a set interval for emptying the ashtray... Never if you don't smoke. However there's something more to it that makes me think i should change my fuel filters more often: water contamination.
I guess this type of spin on filter retains water at the bottom even without a visible sediment bowl. As i said i sometimes use a bit of alternative fuels that i filter and old fuel i collect and filter. I would like my IP and injectors to last a not ingest liquids that aren't fuel. Does that theory hold water? (pun intended)