My 04 has never given me any problems with starting. This morning it started, stalled after a few seconds, and will not start. I changed the fuel ilter tried to bleed the system. After hours of pumping I can only get bubbles to appear around the bleeder screw. I have checked the fuel lines and found no problems. I suspect the fuel filter housing. Any thoughts?

The housing is pretty tough. I would go to where I last was, the filter may have rolled the "O" ring when you tightened it down. It may not be tight enough, or the drain loosened by accident. I would pull the filter back off and check each step. If a "O" ring got cut or deformed replace it and bleed again. Good luck.

Had the problem before I changed the fuel filter. Changed it because I thought that may be the problem. The o rings looked good on the old filter and i was extremely careful with the new one. What now?

You might just try a few gals. #2 in the tank. Fuel Gage in error? Cap vent blocked? The primer I don't think would start sucking air on its own. Maybe after an attempted prime but fuel would likely be leaking around it during prime attempts. Good luck.

It takes 70 pumps for me to prime after a filter change. If you have to pump more than that, then I would say the pump it self is bad.

I had the exact same problem my truck would die after 15-20 minutes of initial run time, it was necessary for me to go under the hood and prime the system I notice fuel and bubbles around the bleed screw and had to keep tightening up on the bleeder screw. (I usually do my own fuel filter replacement, but I remember the dealer was the last one under there doing the filter recall 8,000 miles ago)

I finally changed the filter and couldn't get it to start I forgot how to bleed these engines try pumpin it up unitl you feel it get a little hard to pump, hold down on pump and lightly loosen the bleeder you will more than likely hear air come out, the pump will want to go down when the air let's out, just make sure you do not let the pump come up unitl you close off the screw. give it some more pumps it should fell hard and try to start, if not bleed again.

I had a faulty fuel filter housing and it was the o ring on the bleeder screw.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Changed the filter housing today. Only took about an hour to install the new housing and bleed the system. Runs great.

Before you throw the housing away,
-make sure you still have an O-ring on the bleed screw
-there was talk here a few months back, about an O-ring that fits inside of the bleeder pump. I believe a bad O-ring can creat a vacuum leak, and you can loose prime.
Someone had pics in there garage, and was trying to find a size on or a replacement o-ring, but I never heard.

Found the thread:
http://dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92624&highlight=fuel+filter+housing+o-ring

Here’s the pics in Frank Blum’s garage:
http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/garage.php?do=view&g=2853

Was it covered under warranty or did you need to purchase, if you did who had the best price ?

I did save the old housing (packrat). The screw and o ring look good. I believe it was the pump itself since it would not prime.

Chalie, It was not under warranty. My son was a parts man at a local Chevy dealership for several years. He still has some connections and found it for me. I paid $385 for the filter housing and installed it myself.