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Changing Fuel Filter

02-21-2007, 03:07 AM

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ray1933

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Changing Fuel Filter

How many of you are draining the fuel then removing the filter VS removing the filter then draining the fuel from the cannister?
I have always drained the fuel then removed the filter, but I was reading in one of the Diesel magazines that the filter should be removed first then drain the fuel.

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