What did you do to your van today?

Does the Fuel Filter not require a special tool, Terry, to avoid the risk [a common problem according to various Forums] of messing up the seal and turning a seep into a downpour?

Steve
I don’t know Steve? I’ll do a search on YouTube, see if I can find detail there. Push comes to shove, MH still drives, my go to garage is ten mins from my home, or have mobile mechanic do the fit, to be honest though, I’d rather learn how to do this myself.
Cheers 🍻
 
In fact, and I forgot, they have another garage less than a five minute walk from my home, they could do fit there if required.
 
I don’t know Steve? I’ll do a search on YouTube, see if I can find detail there. Push comes to shove, MH still drives, my go to garage is ten mins from my home, or have mobile mechanic do the fit, to be honest though, I’d rather learn how to do this myself.
Cheers 🍻
I'm sure I've read several Threads about the problem; and Indy garages may not be aware of the risk, with tales of visits to 2-3 garages at, say 50 miles intervals when the leak worsens during the trip, with fresh filters being fitted at each stop at great expense ... I'm sure @wildebus had the problem within the last 6 months or so when he changed the Fuel Filter at home

Steve
 
Gordon, I assume the filter is a straight forward screw off and new one on type, not the type and style you mentioned last week, also, does the black cap just pull off?
Lefty to loosely righty to tightly different from the type on wildebus van
Nip up and a wee bit more for safety
Check the new if it has a drain in bottom is tight or if not you use the old one and there should be a new seal in the box for the drain
Fill with diesel b4 install start and run eng at around 1200 rpm and it shouldn't need bled if you whip off old one and quickly put new one on if this makes sense
 
I'm sure I've read several Threads about the problem; and Indy garages may not be aware of the risk, with tales of visits to 2-3 garages at, say 50 miles intervals when the leak worsens during the trip, with fresh filters being fitted at each stop at great expense ... I'm sure @wildebus had the problem within the last 6 months or so when he changed the Fuel Filter at home

Steve
Different filter to David's style and that was the issue david had
 
Lefty to loosely righty to tightly different from the type on wildebus van
Nip up and a wee bit more for safety
Check the new if it has a drain in bottom is tight or if not you use the old one and there should be a new seal in the box for the drain
Fill with diesel b4 install start and run eng at around 1200 rpm and it shouldn't need bled if you whip off old one and quickly put new one on if this makes sense
Roger dodger El Capitan
 
I'm sure I've read several Threads about the problem; and Indy garages may not be aware of the risk, with tales of visits to 2-3 garages at, say 50 miles intervals when the leak worsens during the trip, with fresh filters being fitted at each stop at great expense ... I'm sure @wildebus had the problem within the last 6 months or so when he changed the Fuel Filter at home

Steve
It is a problem indeed if you have this family of filters and not done right. I have no idea about the Runnach filter but if Gordon says it is different, then it will be different :)
As it happens, I fixed the problem at home after the garage failed to be able to in their workshop, which beggars belief! (On both their part AND mine :D )

The main consequence of my fuel filter problem is my local garage has now lost my business for good for van AND car due to their incompetence.
(And that decision ratified by them having my neighbours Ducato Autosleeper in their yard for now around a month (instead of quoted 3 days) with not a clue how to resolve a comfortmatic gearbox issue))
 
David, this is filter on mine, looks same-ish as filter on my Mitsubishi, which is a simple install, apart from a near engine strip down to get at it!!
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It is a problem indeed if you have this family of filters and not done right. I have no idea about the Runnach filter but if Gordon says it is different, then it will be different :)
As it happens, I fixed the problem at home after the garage failed to be able to in their workshop, which beggars belief! (On both their part AND mine :D )

The main consequence of my fuel filter problem is my local garage has now lost my business for good for van AND car due to their incompetence.
(And that decision ratified by them having my neighbours Ducato Autosleeper in their yard for now around a month (instead of quoted 3 days) with not a clue how to resolve a comfortmatic gearbox issue))
David give roaminrog a shout as he had issues with his Renault and they had to go in with Vauxhall data I think worth a shout and he will assist you
 
What did they do to get it wrong, David?
His filter has a screw ring on the top ,there's a special tool to remove this ring so you can lift the top away and replace the element but many places don't have the tool and use a screwdriver and hammer to chap the ring on and off it sometime es done seal after a while starts to leak,when I ws at Peugeot for a while we stopped putting just a element in as we were having a lot of hassle with leaks this was a good years ago terry
The complete housing now I think is about £50 a third of what it used to be
 
Thanks Gordon, I’ll have a word with lads at the factors over bridge from me regarding filter install, although I think we agree, I have the straight forward one?
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David give roaminrog a shout as he had issues with his Renault and they had to go in with Vauxhall data I think worth a shout and he will assist you
this for the gearbox? It is tricky as the neighbour thinks it is in a good garage (and in the past I have thought that) and I don't want her to feel down about potentially wasted weeks :( (she relies on this camper - used to full-time in it as well for years).
 
Set up my tracking as best i could with string and axle stands, still about 1mm toe out and should be toe in, it was miles out set by a garage hence the extreem inside tyre wear, at least a half inch toe out, total di-ks.
That's pretty disgusting of them Trev. When I change track rod ends, I use a steel tape measure, and I think you should do it with the wheels on the ground because it changes with them up in the air. I then take the vehicle to a tyre place and they do the job more accurately, but it isn't far out using a tape measure. As you say, it is usually toe-in a bit, very rarely straight, and I have never heard of a toe out.
Now, my 40 yr old Mercedes car needs new lower track control joints and it looks a bit difficult to get at them, and I haven't even seen if I can buy any. They are ok mechanically but the rubbers have gone so if I can't get the whole joints I will have to search for rubbers, and maybe have to look for a different joint with the same rubbers. Any advice on how to go about it?
 
this for the gearbox? It is tricky as the neighbour thinks it is in a good garage (and in the past I have thought that) and I don't want her to feel down about potentially wasted weeks :( (she relies on this camper - used to full-time in it as well for years).
Yeah it was for the robotic system (auto ) David
 
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