OMG Replace your fuel filters at 100K!!!
08-06-10, 03:46 PM
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OMG Replace your fuel filters at 100K!!!
REPLACE YOUR FUEL FILTER AT LEAST EVERY 100K. It is NOT a lifetime filter as Toyota claims! (if you get rid of your car at 100K, then I guess it is... 
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Holy %&&$$#!!!! I just did my fuel filter in my 99 GS, 145K miles. Did the bag and the larger filter. Chirping tires now. Pis$es me off cause I would have done it 50K ago if I had known. The car has seen nothing but 93 octane in its whole existence, yet apparently that didn't prevent the filter from slowly clogging.
It's been running pretty badly, even was stalling on the road. I started doing a lot of maintenance items: spark plugs, cleaned air filter, MAF and throttle body, PCV valve, added Chevron Techron. That helped a lot of it. But whoa!...I did the fuel filter, and now it's back to being a race horse again. I'm gonna do the coolant temp sensor as a last item.
Doing the filter replacement is NOT for the faint of heart. I'm an engineer and weekend mechanic, and the only jobs that I fear are those where something can crush me or something can blow up. This job had me spooked cause I don't normally work around an open tank of gasoline, and I was afraid of creating a spark. NOT a very fun job, but necessary. If you're the least bit tentative on this one, take it to a shop mechanic.
)Holy %&&$$#!!!! I just did my fuel filter in my 99 GS, 145K miles. Did the bag and the larger filter. Chirping tires now. Pis$es me off cause I would have done it 50K ago if I had known. The car has seen nothing but 93 octane in its whole existence, yet apparently that didn't prevent the filter from slowly clogging.
It's been running pretty badly, even was stalling on the road. I started doing a lot of maintenance items: spark plugs, cleaned air filter, MAF and throttle body, PCV valve, added Chevron Techron. That helped a lot of it. But whoa!...I did the fuel filter, and now it's back to being a race horse again. I'm gonna do the coolant temp sensor as a last item.
Doing the filter replacement is NOT for the faint of heart. I'm an engineer and weekend mechanic, and the only jobs that I fear are those where something can crush me or something can blow up. This job had me spooked cause I don't normally work around an open tank of gasoline, and I was afraid of creating a spark. NOT a very fun job, but necessary. If you're the least bit tentative on this one, take it to a shop mechanic.
08-06-10, 04:08 PM
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I haven't changed my fuel filter yet, but it's probably bad but not enough to stall the car. The car still runs like nothing ever happened. Car still burns rubber as I wish. I guess just depends where you get your gas from. If the gas station got filthy gas containers than it's all going into your tank. Can't prevent that.
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08-06-10, 05:42 PM
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Doing the filter replacement is NOT for the faint of heart. I'm an engineer and weekend mechanic, and the only jobs that I fear are those where something can crush me or something can blow up. This job had me spooked cause I don't normally work around an open tank of gasoline, and I was afraid of creating a spark. NOT a very fun job, but necessary. If you're the least bit tentative on this one, take it to a shop mechanic.
If you follow COMMON sense procedures you can change anything.
08-06-10, 07:18 PM
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Why would 93 octane prevent a fuel filter from clogging? Do you know what an octane rating is?
I'm guessing your S/N has nothing to do with your occupation...
08-06-10, 08:15 PM
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Guys back on topic please
