RACOR Fuel Filter

[Salmon Fisher]

Now I hope this helps others when they are trying to get that expensive Racor plastic sight bowl off the old filter.


I changed my Racor s3240 filter element and clear plastic bowl today. I purposefully bought a new bowl because of the bad things I read about changing them out.

I put lots of motor oil on red o ring and grease on threads of bowl and mating threads on filter. Only tightened hand tight.

After success on changing filter, priming with fuel and starting both motors decided to try and get old plastic filter bowl off old, rusty filter.

Put old filter in bench vise and took large jawed filter pliers and turned plastic bowl easy enough. Problem was that threads were locked into plastic bowl but broke away from metal filter and whole thing turned.

So decided to drill a small hole near base of filter and screwed in a sheet metal screw hoping to immobilized threads in base of filter. Locked back into vise and put filter pliers back on plastic bowl and SUCCESS! Plastic bowl turned and unscrewed off threads.

Now I just need to clean out the old sight bowl and have a spare.

[colbysmith]

See this thread also:
http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=21765