Fuel filter is inside of tank for 09+ I've seen a lot of high mile f-150s come in my shop and I haven't see a problem with any of the fuel filters. Just a fuel pump once in a blue moon though. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

I only use Shell or Chevron, but I have no idea what was used for the first 74k. Guess I'll be changing mine soon!

 

doesn't make a difference on WHAT brand gas you put in....its WHERE you buy it from....imo

 

That's a pretty idiotic thing to say...

 

So Ford is #2 in the race to the bottom on this one, using the "Chevy does it" mentality will get a lot more Dodge buyers in the long run.

I change my fuel filter once a year, it's always got brown coming out of it, this is a cheap *** thing to do. Especially when you have no gas cap!

 

The same people that never change their oil. It makes no sense to design products with that mentality. How well do the 100k spark plug life cycles work out on the 3v engines?

 

Wifes Chrysler is a 07 and the filter is in the tank. Guess all of the big 3 has gone to this

 

Maybe, but you know it's most likely true.

Quit the contrary, why do you think Fords engineers design the vehicles to start out in third gear on manual cars and put in a very conservative tune. Because they know there will be plenty of idiots driving them.

I wouldn't know how long the 3v plugs lasted, I traded mine in with 39K

 

Heck - Kia did this in 2003+ for the Sorento. At least they provided a nice removable access panel in the rear cargo area right over the tank float/ pump/ filter assembly. Filter R&R is cake. And yep - it do git dirty.

Nice of them to acknowledge R&R would be a real good idear at some point, lol.

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Thats pretty cool

 

By the way, there has been fuel filters in the tank, on pretty much all makes since they started putting fuel pumps IN tanks about the time of the advent of fuel injection, but they have also had in-line ones.

 

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The in-tank fuel filters weren't the only filter, and they were just a sock to keep big chunks out of the pickup.

 

Y'all do realize there is a reason for moving the filter.

When the filter is halfway down the line all the junk has to run through the pump. All that trash wears the internal parts of the pump out and they get mixed in with the fuel and pumped to the motor. If you were lucky the filter caught most of it. If the filter is before the pump the trash is stopped before it gets to the pump and causes damage. Since most cars have the pump in the tank the filter has to be there too. To deal with this most manufactures have added an access panel to the tank to pull the pump and filter out.

 

Yep.

Still, on a pick-me-up, it's a PITA to drop the tank or remove the bed to get to that panel.

Wouldn't be difficult to add an in-bed access hatch over the tank to help facilitate this, if they weren't so adamant that it was a 'lifetime' part, hence no need fer said access. ( Like 100k plugs, lifetime balljoints, lifetime trans/diff fluids, etc . All TCO crap, imho.... )

Hell - isn't that where Ridgelines had their jack/tool compartment - which was inaccessible when the bed was full of mulch. Oops,

EDIT: Does an EB truck have any sort of supplementary filter for fuel? I'd reckon the high pressure injectors would be more prone to damage from particulates than the 'normal' 40 psi variety. Especially after the original in-tank unit has been in service fer a few years.


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