Hi,
I’ve been watching a couple of YouTube videos on how to change out the fuel filter on a Peugeot 407 diesel engine. I want to do it myself. It looks like there’s no need to bleed the fuel line for air…. Which is the main concern that my husband mentioned.
Here’s the best of the two vids via Duck Duck Go: duck://player/c-U_E2UKUPs
Can anyone verify that it’s as simple as it appears? Has anyone changed their fuel filter on a Peugeot 407 diesel, by any chance?
Cheers.
Mary, I’ve not changed one on. Peugeot but have for my Subaru and the principle is the same. Just make sure you have loads of clean rags and cloths and I’m sure you will wear goggles and gloves.
To prime the line after you have reinstalled the filter, you just squeeze the ballon thingy a few times with the fuel out line disconnected and emptying into a receptical.
This vid is also good and well done for giving it a go. It is simple with the right tools on a still day too.
You’re so helpful, thanks very much. Yeah, the only thing with this particular vid is that he’s not wearing gloves. Will do.
No worries and one last thing…be careful not to overtighten the top of the chamber and enjoy the process and the 100’s of euros of savings… hopefully you will be doing the oil and filter changes too?..
If I had a ramp and my husband’s help, I’d definitely do the oil and filter. I’m scheduled for a repair at the Peugeot dealer (good repair work was done on another issue, so I’m willing to go back to a dealer for more repairs despite what my husband says) due to hesitation issues when accelerating (MAF maybe?), in September. So I’ll have to wait and ask the shop to do it then. In the meantime I will try to use my motorcycle as often as possible…..
Hmmm. Though now you’ve put the idea in my head, I might ask a neighbour in case they could help with the oil and filter….. I think that might be a two-person job if only for safety. Thanks.
Good idea…the air filter (of course) is the easiest one to change and doesn’t involve going under the vehicle… actually, of all the routine stuff, the oil change is one you might want to go to Norauto or the like and get them to do it…I do my own but it involves having to go to the déchetterie to recycle the old oil and that’s a bummer…and messy too.
Don’t forget the cabin air filter if you live anywhere smokey.
Well worth paying your local independent mechanic for this unless you like laying upside down in you car’s passenger footwell with the door sill trying to rearrange your spine.
I will never darken my local Norauto’s doors again after the told me I needed a new alternator after a free alternator “test” I was given after buying a new EFB battery to my Duster from them.
My later father was an auto electrician, so I’d already tested it myself and found it satisfactory, but I was next door and interested to see what they’d do. Connected a DVM to the battery, no load and at idle before pronouncing that “your alternator is a bit weak”.
Nice try, Scammy McScamface, now go tickle your prostate with a 5 Bar airline.
Or around farm land, those dust clouds from harvesting, clean filter can help the AC performance as well
Just remember to set the A/C to recirculate in these conditions.
My local garagiste used to poo-poo ‘English garages’ for draining sumps with a pump, not via the sump-plug. Don’t know where he got that one. Not true, in my experience.
As I don’t have ramps and am now too decrepit to crawl under the car without, I do use a cheap 12V pump with success. It’s a bit messy and you have to try to keep the pipe delivering the oil into your container from kinking where it turns down out of the pump.
Otherwise, not bad. Of course, you don’t get the crud that may be around the sump plug but at least the engine now has X litres clean oil and the promise to self to drain via the plug next opportunity.
It helps if the car is pointing v slightly downhill. With persistence the container eventually has not far short of the oil capacity of the engine in it.
So do I on my Peugeot 207 diesel. Lidl frequently has them on sale for 12-13 euros. It isn’t difficult but can be messy if your hose slips out of the container. Useful to have a spotter.
I wondered if it’s a good idea to take the diesel fuel out, like he does in this video. I’m a little concerned about the air in the fuel line that would result from doing that?
I think he decants the fuel just so that he can run a clean rags on the inside of the chamber to get it tip top but if you get a sense it’s not required, then don’t do it especially if you are concerned about an airlock.
Later in the vid, he purges the lines by squeezing the pressuring bulb, and this will take any air out.
Have you ever run out of fuel and needed to squeeze the bulb to prime the system?..well, this will be the same situation (running out of fuel) as decanted chamber, but if in doubt, just leave the fuel in the chamber (take a wee bit out before placing the new filter so the fuel doesn’t spill).
Hope that helps?
Very much so. I successfully changed it. Cheers
Well done you!!! 