Alright everyone so i went to change my fuel filter on my 95 EG civic Hatch today and i got everything off, except when i went to do the bottom fuel line, using my line wrench 14mm, it would loosen up but never fully come off..

It would get to the last few threads and keep spining and spinnign and spinning like it is stripped on there?

Any suggestions i really need to change this bad boy....

 

bump

 

Sounds to me like the tubing is stuck in the bottom of the filter. Just undo the bracket on the filter, support the tubing, and pull the two apart. Sometimes the flares will kind of wedge in there. Good Luck with it.

 

pull harder, if it breaks than fix it!

 

Not really trying to have to fix a fuel line over my thanksgiving break on my daily....

I was pulling up on it pretty hard but i feel like there might be like 1-2 sets of threads on it still, unless that flared tubed is really really stuck on there

 

The farrell nut should slide down on the tubing once it is unthreaded. Furthermore, if the tubing is unstuck even if there are couple of threads holding it the filter should move up and down on the tubing. If it isnt doing that at all I would say the tubing is stuck in there. Be careful, but try grabbing the tubing with one hand,and rotating the filter with the other. Mine was pretty stuck in there too...

 

i would say i would pull harder apart but to me it seems like there are 1-2 threads still on the nut into the filter itself so i wouldnt be able to pull it apart

 

be careful !!!! plz

 

I know i tightened everything back up and im just happy it doesnt leak

The only solution i can think of is to cut the end off, get a flare tool, flare the end put a new nut on and install the new fuel filter?

I dont want it to come to that so any more suggestions?

 

Like I said, even if there are only 1 or 2 threads left then there should be play in the filter on the line. I work in the oilfield and deal with Stainless Steel and Copper tubing on a daily basis. Infact, if I cant blow down a piece of tubing I will back the farrell nut off a few threads and take my wrench and hit a bend in the tubing to unseat the farrell to allow the pressure to bleed off since it will unseat that far.