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crapday
 
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Joined: Jan 05 2010Location: Glasgow |
I just got home from the night shift at 6.30 and had the filter replaced for 7.15. 1. The engine bay before I started.  2. Remove the engine cover and the air ducting to the right hand side of the engine. Also remove the 2 torx screws holding the brake fluid reservoir and move out out the way  3. Remove the 3 bolts securing the air meter housing and remove, (their is an electrical clip on the housing, remove this too). The bolts are far back so you will need an extension for your 8mm socket.  4. These are all the parts that I removed to give better access. You can remove the battery if you want, but I did not need to do this and I have big hands.  5. I removed the electrical clip at the top of the filter and removed the 2 diesel pipes going it to the filter. To remove these, you need to push the two white sides in on the clips to be able to remove them. I then had to remove an electrical clip at the bottom of the filter, this was not in use. There is also a pipe going into something beside the filter that you have to remove. I then removed the filter.  6. The old and new filter.  7. This part has to be removed from the old filter and added to the new filter.  8 and 9. I made a cone from the cardboard box the filter came in and poured the diesel back in to the filter before I replaced it.   10. The old dirty filter.  11. The new filter in place. 12, 13 and 14. The diesel priming pump at top of engine.    I hope this will help some of you do this your self. It only took me about 45 minutes. Remember to pour diesel back into the new filter to aid starting of the engine. Gary. |
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Dave_Retired.
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    Member No: #1
Joined: Aug 07 2006Location: Northumberland |
Thanks for sharing. I have made it available to download as a printable.pdf here: - Click Here - | ||||
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Michal.Enter
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Joined: Apr 06 2011Location: Częstochowa |
How many miles have you done with this fuel filter ? It looks strange... | ||||
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crapday
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Member No: #11964
Joined: Jan 05 2010Location: Glasgow |
It had done about 68000 miles. It looks like an oil filter. I had let the fuel run low too many times and all the gunk at the bottom of the tank had been through the filter. | ||||
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Commodore
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 Member No: #21107
Joined: Jul 31 2011Location: Ruislip, Middlesex |
crapday wrote ... It had done about 68000 miles. It looks like an oil filter. I had let the fuel run low too many times and all the gunk at the bottom of the tank had been through the filter. Eeek, not good - fuel filter on the 1.6HDi should be changed very 37,500 miles - no wonder it looks so yucky. Great walk through, extremely helpful. |
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OMGS
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 Member No: #32247
Joined: Aug 26 2013Location: Peterborough |
Thanks for the tips. They are very helpful. I followed your procedure today and the work was a success. A few points to add from lesson I learnt today, which may help other people who would like to do this himself: 1. remove battery will be easier for disconnecting pipes at the back of the filter, if you don't have too much experience in disconnect electrical plugs and pipes; 2. when remove electrical clips, as step 5 above, using a this screw drive lift the clip from the other end, it will be easy to pull out the clip then. 3. when remove the lower diesel pipe, it was difficult to press down the white slide. Turn the connect 90 degree will help to press down the slide. 4. after put everything back, the engine would start straight away and you will see engine vibrate violently when turning ignition key. But don’t panic. After about 3 minutes, the engine started. 5. there was a “ depollution system faulty” message comes out and warning light ON. After engine was running for about and a few start-stop, the message and warning light gone. And then, everything goes back to normal. |
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elephantman
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Member No: #33003
Joined: Oct 28 2013Location: sussex |
A great set of notes for doing this at home with the bonus of photos. Our C4GP has only covered less than 47K miles but threw up the usual fault codes for Fuel leakage and low pressure on the rail plus Depollution light and various warnings. The car has always had full services but evidence shows that the fuel filter had not been changed even though the documents state otherwise. I recommend that these filters are changed more than the 37K mileage periods. I followed the detailed procedure but did not need to unclip the Air Meter duct nor need to touch the Brake Pot. However I did refill the new filter using new diesel rather than using the old also. Changing the filter was less than 45mins including resetting of the fault codes. Excellent thread and made easier with the pdf from this site. 
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DeuxChevaux
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Joined: Nov 21 2010Location: North Norfolk UK |
I don't usually do the full service on the same day, I work on the basis that I've got an hour spare I'll do xxxx today and xxxx to finish next week / day etc. Two things to do together though are fuel filter and air filter as you have to move / undo the same things for each - saves time and effort in the long run | ||||
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Bullettooth1
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Member No: #33242
Joined: Nov 19 2013Location: Stockton-on-tees |
Great post! Exactly what I was looking for! My car kept cutting out today because of this problem (I believe) only got the car last year (2007 reg) but I doubt the filter has ever been changed. It has 76k on the clock so I guess it's a bit over due  might do the air filter at the same time as recommended above. Thanks very much for sharing this info! |
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Bullettooth1
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Member No: #33242
Joined: Nov 19 2013Location: Stockton-on-tees |
Just a quick question. Where does that clear rubber tube from the bottom of the filter go to? It came off my filter a while ago and I'm sure my mate put it back in the wrong place because when I put it back where he did just now it was leaking diesel. Thank you! |
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Phil
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   Member No: #406
Joined: Jun 16 2007Location: Stafford |
Bullettooth1 wrote ... Great post! Exactly what I was looking for! My car kept cutting out today because of this problem (I believe) only got the car last year (2007 reg) but I doubt the filter has ever been changed. It has 76k on the clock so I guess it's a bit over due might do the air filter at the same time as recommended above. Thanks very much for sharing this info! They are very prone to fuel filters clogging - so much so from about 11 plate onwards (iirc) the interval has been reduced to every 25,000. 20,000 on the 2.0HDi. It usually puts in a P0087 fault code - Fuel pressure lower than reference. |
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DeuxChevaux
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Member No: #16472
Joined: Nov 21 2010Location: North Norfolk UK |
The clear tube is a drain tube and simply dumps fuel and water when you drain the same from the filter. If it's leaking it's likely that the drain screw isn't tightened up properly. | ||||
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adioperator
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Member No: #7838
Joined: Feb 19 2009Location: Tulcea |
I made a tutorial on how to change fuel filter on Peugeot 308 1.6HDi (2007-2010), it's the same like Citroen C4 1.6HDi (2004-2010). |
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