Eric00GS3

With 207,000 on my 2000 GS300, I decided that even though Lexus says that you don’t need to replace the fuel filter, I decided it couldn’t hurt and went ahead and replaced the filter.

Thanks slickgt1 for the instructions, https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...ge-how-to.html.

Once the old filter was out, I compared the new and old filters, and didn’t notice anything different except that when you peer down the hole of the new filter, there's a little piece of the white filter that you can see peeking out. You can’t appreciate how white it is in the picture, but it’s sparkling.

Eric00GS3

So I looked at the old filter. You can see the same piece of the filter, except that it’s brown.

Eric00GS3

So I decided to saw the filter in two. And look what I found.

jspecdan

cool...but pure nastiness.

EyeKutr

iTrader: (5)

I guess it does what its supposed to do...question is how restrictive is it at this point? and besides making the fuel pump work harder, any other issues ?

FinLIFE

iTrader: (8)

I might just do this to my car..it has 125k on it, but it wont hurt to put a new filter in. thanks

PHML

iTrader: (33)

wow...thats really dirty.

SirBev

iTrader: (1)

I thought that 91/93 was the good stuff what is all of this build up...This is a bit dissapointing

Jrezo

holy crap filters

ya not a bad idea to change. makes me want to do the same.

Thanks for the pics and the hack saw, pretty cool.

SoCal Cyco

iTrader: (20)

207,000 miles is alot mo matter what fuel you are using. and you cant replace "just " the fuel filter. it comes as a unit along with the fuel pump. expensive

Eric00GS3

Actually you can just replace the filter. I followed the directions from the link in my original post and didn't need to replaced the entire fuel pump. Filter only cost $40 from Sewell.

Durrby

iTrader: (3)

The filter on my '99 sc with 135k was changed a few weeks ago. I've been meaning to do the same this as you to see how dirty it actually is. What kinda saw did you use?

Eric00GS3

Hacksaw, went pretty smooth.

Post a pic when you're done. It would be interesting to see the difference between a filter at 135k and one at 207k.

sam430

iTrader: (10)

I thought the filter looks like a white mesh bag?

SorrGwa

iTrader: (1)

dang thats nasty.

i changed my filter at around 165,000K