The beauty of aliexpress and a little effort!. Love the idea of the spacer. As you say, should be standard. I would also consider fitting a 2l coke bottle over the end of the filter assembly...yes, a little cutting and shaping and a cable tie to hold it in place. Won't protect against impacts with fixed objects, but it will protect from stones and sticks that could easily break those fragile connections.
Haha nice, good idea mate. Yeah pretty much could protect it with anything aye. There will be something laying around haha Cheers mate Thanks for watching
I totally recall this being an issue, recall commenting on it with you way back. I personally would have thought you'd have the ability to fabricate a spacer, and obtain a piece of flat plate steel to create your own bash plate. Can't see it being too complicated myself. Suggestions for spacer, nylon cutting board, cut a portion to size and drill holes, use mutiply thicknesses if required to lift as high as required/possible. Should it need to be grounded, drill holes oversized, insert tube steel, cut to length, then simply insert mounting bolts thru tubes. Obviously longer bolts maybe required. Bloody cheap fix. Regards.
Legend! Yeah I've spoken about it in the past vids here and there. But yes I better make something haha don't want to do it again that's for sure So happy my light is off the dash haha
Hey mate going to be doing the filter tomorrow do I really need a special tool to unscrew the housing or will it undo by hand with but of umph cheers mate
I can unscrew by hand but it's extremely hard. I would suggest a tool. Or a old timing belt even. I'm going to buy a new tool for the next one because it was so tight hahaha
Crazy place in fit the fuel filter in the first place. Would there be somewhere under the bonnet it could go, the fuel line must run into the bonnet area?
Cheers mate, I have the bash plate already because I did a trip through aus. I have always been worried about the filter. I was looking at buying a spare but didn't want to spend the money from gwm. Ali barber it is
How good is that :) Yeah this ways it's cheap enough to keep a spare. It would suck so much if you broke the whole assembly off and good get fuel pressure our bush somewhere. Would be so easy to do. Weird thing was when I was speaking to dealer they didn't really know what I was talking about. Surely these get broken all the time. I wonder what other people do when they break there's. Hmmmm I really need to get a bash plate haha
Haha you have a point there haha. I'm not too sure haha I guess a brain fart when I was saying that. I'm not sure what that's meant to do. Unless there's a internal wire or something. Hmm 🤔
piece of 4mm plate mounted below it with a short bit of pipe welded to the bash to go around it so stones wont puncher it would solve the problem could even put a inspection plate on it so you can drain it . .lot of 60 Landcruiser's had them but i bit higher up ,its a great idea just a tab low.
Reminds me of a steering part for a Hyundai I use to deliver for Holden the little clip was heaps cheaper from the same factory aftermarket Hyundai hiked the "genuine" one up.
We are the owners of this car in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We make an iron box that can be opened and closed for maintenance. The reason for having this box is because the diesel filter level is low and is susceptible to breakage and damage on rough roads like what happened to you.
I was told those wires were broken on mine during the last service but they didn't explain well or want to fix it. Now I see why. Thanks for the video I'll do it myself now👍
Holy shit! What car have you got? I remember Toyota Hilux around 2009 2010 had major dramas with fuel contamination. As soon as a tiny bit of bad fuel it would F the injectors and needed to replace. It was super expensive. Does insurance offer any help for bad fuel?
That's just lack of testing :( Pretty poor. Needs re-design so it sits much higher above the chassis rail, or even better, re-positioning away from the ramp-over area altogether.
@Thegoldmine1 hahaha nah if you've seen what we've done in ours you'd get it haha. Been on the beach soooo many times and I've just left all the salt water on it. T Definitely a no no hahaha Also driving into the beach water.... not a good idea but pretty fun 😜 You'll love it mate! I want to buy more GWMs haha I'm hooked
Since I've got you here do you want to see recommend it I'm getting the 4 X 2 version. Just want to reliable youth that can get me from Adelaide to Alice Springs and back . unlimited kilometre warranty looks good
@Thegoldmine1 I would 100% buy the base model 4x4. They seem to be going very cheap at the moment. 4x4 is always going to come in handy and for resale later on.. But I love 4x4ing. I just wouldn't go 4x2. Just my opinion :)
Like I showed in the vid, I did try to fix it but it snapped off right in the plastic part of the sensor. I just couldn't get it to stay. Drilled it and everything to try and get some wire to solder to 😄
