I don't think my car has ever had its fuel filter changed, so I decided to do it myself. I got everything off except the fuel line bolt. Holy **** that thing is hard to take off. I stripped it using a damn flare nut wrench. How can I get it off, or better yet, how much would a shop charge to change it out?

 

Anyone?

 

I tried to do the fuel filter in my 88 civic which I also believed had never been changed and it would not budge. I finally took it to a gas station/mechanic and even with the right tool it took 2 big guys to bust it off. They charged like $30 (I supplied filter)

 

I dunno how they're gonna take it off since the nut is somewhat rounded. Probably gonna have to cut off the nut and put a new one on, anyone know how much that should cost?

 

your supposed to use a line wrench to open the actual fitting. on the fuel filter itself it has a slot so you can put a wrench to hold it from twisting. put a size 19mm i believe wrench on the fuel filter, and use a line wrench on the fitting and it will be fairly tight but it will break loose.

how rounded off is it ?

 

Line wrench = flare nut wrench?

The wrench still holds onto the nut, but it doesn't take too much torque before it just spins.

 

Line wrench aka Pipe wrench aka Flare-nut Wrench.

The line wrenches are harder to get onto fasteners b/c you have to match more than just a pair of faces.

If you can't get the line wrench on the nut, then you need to file the faces on the nut flat until you can slip the line wrench on it.

 

Are you sure you were turning the right direction? The fuel line fitting is upside down, therefore righty = loosey in this case. I almost stripped mine last time because of that, then slapped myself and realized I was a dummy, and got it off no problem.

 

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Yep I was turning it right. I'm gonna go try again with a vice and a whole lot of clampin'

 

normally you should use impact gun makes life a whole lot easier

 

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impact gun on a fuel filter

it'll open man just spray it down w/ some wd-40 and put some force into it. but i do agree it can be a bitch!

 

spray it liberally with PB blaster, this stuff works wonders when i tried unbolting rusted turbo bolts from the manifold. then use the vice grips, good luck!

 

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how do you use an impact gun on something thats not accessible with an impact gun ?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ti3d in &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I dunno how they're gonna take it off since the nut is somewhat rounded. Probably gonna have to cut off the nut and put a new one on, anyone know how much that should cost? </TD></TR></TABLE>try vice grips!

 

PB blaster is your friend.

 

I had the same problem onmy 89 Teg. I got the 10 mm service bolt free on the fuel filter easily, but the main fuel line bolt has not been freed. It gave me a wicked headache trying to get it off. I think I will replace the fuel filter soon and I will definitely use a breaker bar with 17 mm impact socket. I used bolt looosener on the fitting with no result. The reason the bolt is so tight is because if it were not, fuel would spray eveywhere because it is under very high pressure, like about 70 PSI I believe.

 

hello people, you cannot use a socket of any sort on the fuel line fitting, since it has a flared hard line running THROUGH the fitting.

 

That nuts a goner. Blah I gotta replace the entire fuel line now.