This is a ~25,000 mile run. The glue had partially failed but the filter itself was intact. It's a Autozone filter 3/8 inline fuel filter. Honestly I only replace it because the plastic tees blew dissolved on me this afternoon on way to to work. 96ish degrees here in Central Fl today.
I had intended to replace it at about 5-6k but was to much of a slacker.
The vehicle is a 1996 S10 2.2l auto 77k miles. This was the first year of dexcool. The water bottle of coolant below was drained from the radiator last year before I flushed it, had to replaced the cracked radiator and hoses. Hence the coolant filter. You can see the sediment in the first two pics(of the bottle) and the last picture of it is shaken up with a flashlight behind.
I removed the filter setup altogether since the plastic/nylon tees are clearly not up to the task. I used Supertech Coolant and distilled again. There was clearly sediment still in the system but I didn't have time to flush it out again.
The last pic is the toilet plunger I bought at CVS to jam in the heater hose to get to work. It worked really well.
I inherited the truck with 39k original miles on it from an elderly relative who had been paying huge amounts of money to the FILTH at the dealership over the years. $2k for tires, $1k for complete annual maintenance, tuneups etc... We were pretty ticked that the dealer was charging him so much for doing the work but after he passed and I found out the were charging so much and not doing anything I was livid. We couldn't find his receipts for the work or I would have raised a you know what storm and been on local tv about it. But I digress , the thread is about the fuel/coolant filter, not the human garbage at the stealership.
I had intended to replace it at about 5-6k but was to much of a slacker.
The vehicle is a 1996 S10 2.2l auto 77k miles. This was the first year of dexcool. The water bottle of coolant below was drained from the radiator last year before I flushed it, had to replaced the cracked radiator and hoses. Hence the coolant filter. You can see the sediment in the first two pics(of the bottle) and the last picture of it is shaken up with a flashlight behind.
I removed the filter setup altogether since the plastic/nylon tees are clearly not up to the task. I used Supertech Coolant and distilled again. There was clearly sediment still in the system but I didn't have time to flush it out again.
The last pic is the toilet plunger I bought at CVS to jam in the heater hose to get to work. It worked really well.
I inherited the truck with 39k original miles on it from an elderly relative who had been paying huge amounts of money to the FILTH at the dealership over the years. $2k for tires, $1k for complete annual maintenance, tuneups etc... We were pretty ticked that the dealer was charging him so much for doing the work but after he passed and I found out the were charging so much and not doing anything I was livid. We couldn't find his receipts for the work or I would have raised a you know what storm and been on local tv about it. But I digress , the thread is about the fuel/coolant filter, not the human garbage at the stealership.
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