Met up with my buddy last weekend. His dad was over and also has a Dmax (01). He has a monster camper that he pulls on a regular basis... Anyway we were talking about fuel filters and he said the dealer told him not to worry about it until 100,000 miles!! I said ok how often do you change it? I haven't he repliedhttp://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Ermm.gif. Truck runs fine and he hasn't had any problems. Go easy as he was going by what the dealer told him. I told him about this website so He's probably laughing at our Pre-Post fiter paranoia by now.


Goes to show the injectors aren't made of glass but I'll stick to 10,000 mile filter changes.

Know that is what I call luck.


Genohttp://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Hug.gif

It has to have punched through by now and is not filtering anything. Bet his balance rates are starting to go out of whack....

I can tell when my filter starts clogging. My wife starts commenting that "Alley Kat" (our truck's name) is getting sluggish. Pop a new filter in and she comes back to life. She starts to slow down at about 7K.


I bet a new filter would just bring a lot of pep back into this 80K truck that the owner just didnt' realize was gone.

I'm with PC on this one, that filter has probably "channeled" and perforated a long time ago and is now as effective as a screen door for filtering.

Some go some blow

Hellooooooo.....right in my manual it says every 15K miles....and I have had 1 or 2 give up the ghost at 7K....I changed every 7500 until I added a pre-oem filter, hoping to get 15K but already have both spares in the truck just in case......

I just changed mine again last week, it had been about 17k since I had done it. Well...........like Rockin said, this truck came back to life. It reminded me of when I flashed my computer with only the 50hp level.


I couldn't believe it, the truck had slowly lost power and I wasn't even aware of it. Now it's business as usual. Man do I love my truck!http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Clap.gif

Met up with my buddy last weekend. His dad was over and also has a Dmax (01). He has a monster camper that he pulls on a regular basis... Anyway we were talking about fuel filters and he said the dealer told him not to worry about it until 100,000 miles!! I said ok how often do you change it? I haven't he repliedhttp://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Ermm.gif. Truck runs fine and he hasn't had any problems. Go easy as he was going by what the dealer told him. I told him about this website so He's probably laughing at our Pre-Post fiter paranoia by now.


Goes to show the injectors aren't made of glass but I'll stick to 10,000 mile filter changes.





This thread is worthless without pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Shocked.gif

PICS would be nice.


I have seen one with over well over 30K and it isn't pretty .





Mac

From the looks of my fuel filters upon inspection, I know I could get 40,000 if not more from the primary filter. I change it every 20,000 miles + or - a few hundred.


Now the Racor post 2 micron is a different story. (It`s the 60 series, so it isn't very big) Before 10,000 miles it is telling me to get a new one in there. When it gets close to the 10,000 mile mark I have to bleed the fuel line if the truck sets more then about 12 hours.