I need the arms of a 5 year old with 2 elbows in each arm (pulling fuel bowl)

[arz]

Working on pulling the fuel bowl out on an 03 E350. Ugh.

Good stuff:

• The fuel leak will be gone
• http://www.dieselorings.com/ is localish, so my order should be here very soon.

Bad stuff:

• Tore the intake tube from the turbo to the bolted down brackety thing.
• Busted off the handle from the oil dipstick
• cut my knuckles all up - SOP.

Should I pull and go through the HPOP at the same time? Seems to be working fine. I do have a small oil leak, but I'm not certain it is the culprit.

 

[scoutkid]

It IS the culprit. Get the O-ring kit from diesel-orings.com at the same time. I just did all this a month ago - refer to my build thread for the saga. My tips and tricks:

1) getting the old rings off the fuel tubes can be a real pain. They get all jammed in the bore of the threaded fitting. I used a hook and/or a pick to try and keep the ring (which is really a short length of hose) from spinning, and 'unthreaded' it from the fitting. Hopefully that makes sense.

2) When putting the bowl back in, hook up the drain hose first, then get the threads started on all 4 fuel lines before bolting the bowl back in place. you simply cannot get the fittings to line up after the bowl is bolted in.

i will try and think of more.

I destroyed my hands as they grated back and forth on the braided stainless HPOP lines. My drama revolved around the ICP regulator, and i had the fuel bowl/HPOP in and out almost a dozen times.

 

[AUTO360]

I had that problem. Leaked fuel for a while then stopped. Then on my trip up north in 2011 it started leaking again real bad. Took it to a place near Portland and they did the work. It was expensive.....little over $500....but maybe I'm glad they did it because if it happened at home I would have been doing it myself and it doesn't sound fun.

 

[arz]

I still need to get the drain and the electrical heater connection undone before I can pull the bowl. Hope to finish that before the snow blows in tonight. I figure I'm going to nix the drain and just use a suction canister to drain the bowl when necessary.

How much more time is it to pull/replace the HPOP? I figure the time to re-seal it is negligible. I'll be adding it to the cart from dieselorings.com. Anything else I should order?

Parts I get to replace in addition:

• Dipstick - stupid elbow busted off the handle.
• Intake tube from airbox to turbo - Local Ford shop (Medved in Castle Rock) is telling me that the shorter piece that attaches directly to the turbo is not available separately.

 

[scoutkid]

BUY. THIS. TOOL. You can make one, like I did, but I took half a damn day just trying to make it perfect. Buy the tool. BUY IT.

http://www.puredieselpower.com/cata...d=e505866edb45c88df206fbbdb331ad2b#googlebase

If you have that tool, and know how to use it (it's very simple), google search turns up thousands of examples, add in a few minutes to suction off the HPOP reservoir, remove the EBPV, the cover plate for the HPOP gear bolt, the gear bolt itself, and 2 bolts that hold the HPOP to the reservoir, and you have it out.

If you ask me, the HPOP is by far the easiest part of the job. And if they aren't already, the orings on it WILL leak, and you WILL have to take the fuel bowl back out...

At this point i will pray for you. Because I have been there. I have the scars. Follow all instructions to a T and you will be fine. Unless for some reason your ICP valve mysteriously kicks the bucket like mine and then BAM $300 gone.

May God have mercy on your hands!