Fuel filter help

[pan4905]

I changed my fuel filters this afternoon an while I was under the truck I found this on the ground and thought maybe it fell out of the housing while I was pulling the old filter out. I couldn't find anywhere that it could have gone. It may have already been on the ground which is what I'm hoping. I finished the filters and it started and runs fine. Any ideas?

[APEX 06]

It smell like fuel

[NCfarmboy]

I don't recognize that part and I've had my HFCM apart before...

[pan4905]

Originally Posted by APEX 06

It smell like fuel

Idk. My hands were all full of diesel when I picked it up.

[wilsonw2]

did you change in a garage or an area where there were other auto parts or motors around you? i know sometimes i get paranoid when i get lazy and unorganized in the garage and i do a routine maintenance on something and accidentally find a part under the truck or motor that belongs to something else in the garage.

let's hope this is your case. If not, I would look long and hard in and around my housing for a slot. Also, that piece looks a little dirty to be inside of your FFH. Take another look. Is it on the yellow plastic drain valve by any chance?

[APEX 06]

Images of the filter housing page 4. To me it looks like a bushing, to the old filter look like somethings missing




http://www.google.com/search?q=2008+...20&bih=508#p=3

[pan4905]

I did do it in the garage where the mower and 4 wheeler and everything else is. It's very possible it came from something else. I felt around inside the housing and never could find any place it may have come from.

[WildStyle]

That is a line cap that ford uses on fuel lines/hfcms/ etc to keep stuff out of the lines during shipping/install. Nothing to be worried about.

[pan4905]

So why was it still in the hfcm? It couldn't hurt anything by still being in there?

[WildStyle]

It was probably sitting in the frame rail and you dislodged it. It wouldn't be in the HFCM