a bad day

[sttstroke]

Well I had my fpr shimmed and for the second time it blew the fuel filter o ring out in the middle of town. so i get a ride and get a new filter and finally make it home and decide to take the shim out I was in a hurry and about half ticked off and twisted the housing ended up costing me $35 plus new fue filter. has anybody else had problems with the o ring?

[bryanbrown]

which oring? The drain valve oring? That sounds odd. What psi did you have it shimmed to. I've had mine as high as 85psi for a couple of months with no problems.

[sttstroke]

fuel filter o ring or gasket what ever. it was like 75 psi i didnt see where it did anything anyway.

[Lord Tauk]

That's weird, ton of guys run +70PSI without any issues of the filter cap o-ring being blow out?

Are you still running the factory fuel filter housing cap? If so, maybe it's flexed/warped/deformed plastic, after all the times it's been screwed and unscrewed? I use Baldwins filters, it has the filter attached to a new cap, I'm not sure if it's any better or worse, but the guys at the local big rig shop recommended it when I just went in to look around.

Plus on the bright side, if you get the fuel filter and o-ring from Ford it costs just as much and maybe more as Baldwins filter.

[Performance Oil Products]

Originally Posted by Lord Tauk

That's weird, ton of guys run +70PSI without any issues of the filter cap o-ring being blow out?

Are you still running the factory fuel filter housing cap? If so, maybe it's flexed/warped/deformed plastic, after all the times it's been screwed and unscrewed? I use Baldwins filters, it has the filter attached to a new cap, I'm not sure if it's any better or worse, but the guys at the local big rig shop recommended it when I just went in to look around.

Plus on the bright side, if you get the fuel filter and o-ring from Ford it costs just as much and maybe more as Baldwins filter.

Dave, where are you getting your baldwin filters at?

[720Deere]

Dave works next door to an independent truck parts store. They handle everything you could need for a heavy duty truck including tools and shop supplies.

Baldwin makes good filters, but I have always been afraid of their 7.3 fuel filters. When the Superduty first came out, a friend of mine had nothing but trouble with the lid on the Baldwin filters. He blew out 3 filters on a trip to Florida with a bone stock truck. He ended up buying a Ford filter and cap to get him home. I don't remember the details, but Baldwin acknowledged that they had a problem and it has since been corrected.