Nick's new Ram 2500

Isn't it funny how threads go? Nick gave his blessing when he participated in the deviation, OAW the Queen's rulz. Ha Ha!

 

I am a walk around the barn kinda guy so carry on

 

As you can see, I still made a mess but way better than before. The drain hose still didn't want to work but when I removed the valve it drained fine out the valve not the drain nipple. Just the drive shaft is in the way and still some fuel in the cap when it comes off, I wasn't expecting that.

A friend of mine says he uses a smaller open container so he can get above the drive shaft and lets the diesel, cap, and all, fall in the container. Be my luck, I would then drop/spill the container on my face....

 

I resemble that for sure.

I dont know why they positioned that directly above the DS... seems like a hundred different places would've been better.

 

Haven't tried a cut down gal milk jug to collect the filter when changing my 2014 rear fuel filter. That might work pretty well and would be able to get past the drive shaft. Pretty poor place to put the filter, could've been located to the one side towards the tank. Sometimes you wish you could throttle the engineers!

 

That's exactly why I became an engineer was to try to use common sense and serviceability as metrics.. alas.. the bean counters and folks that have never "seen work done" make the decisions.. That's why you have to jack up engines to change spark plugs and transmission pans...

 

I do the same thing on my rear filter. I use an old plastic Folgers coffee can. Sit it right on top of the driveshaft, finish unscrewing the cap and the whole thing, filter and cap fall right in, it even has a little indention on one side for your fingers to grip on to.

 

This is a shot of the cap on the rear filter. The problem is there is a drain but it only drains the fuel in the very bottom of the cap (what you can see through the center hole). Has anyone drilled holes in the This leaves a bunch of fuel in the top half of the cap (above the 8 "pie" sections). Has anyone drilled a hole in each of the 8 sections so that the fuel can drain through and the drain on the filter housing would actually do its job? I looked at it and can see no reason why it would not work. That end of the filter is solid so its not like you would promote flow through the end of the filter since it is solid.
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I think that would let the outside section of the filter (dirty side) to mix with the center section (clean side). You would think the fuel would pass through the filter to the drain unless it was plugged up.

I can't understand why the drain nipple will not drain. If you pull the drain plug clear out, it will drain out the plug hole.

 

The petcock on the filter works its just that a lot of fuel sits in the area you see (the 8 sections). I guess just dropping it into a bucket is best .