I swore I've been leaking diesel and everyone kept trying to tell me it's oil even though my mileage has been crappy and my oil levels fine. I looked EVERYWHERE (that I could see) and just couldn't find where it was coming from. Now since stumbling upon this video I looked right were you said and indeed I believe I've found my issue. Thank you so much! Now I just have to try to do it. Wish you would have shown you taking it off. I'm a pretty lousy DIY'er. Just eveyone wants several hundred to do what looks like a simple swap.
I swear I don't have a single issue with my car but I can't stop watching your videos they are absolutly fantastic my friends love them as well!! Please keep it up you calm teaching genius.
Great video. Best one ive seen to fix the problem. walked me through the process. I was able to go on ebay and find the oring/selas on ebay. Was a lot cheaper and fixed the problem. they were less than $4. I searched """7.3 L Ford Fuel Filter Bowl Drain Valve O rings""""
i wish i had seen this video before i took my truck to the dealer, took them two days to fix, and 230 bucks from my pocket...oh well now i know.. thanks for posting...i really appreciate it.
Thanks much. Very helpful video, down to giving us the right torx key size. I had one loose screw on the valve that I tightened and seemed to fix the leak. If it continues to leak, I'll know what to replace and where to find it. Much appreciated.
My gosh dude I have the same exact problem with my truck. Thanks your videos are very easy to see and explain I will be fixing this problem on my truck
In Australia that plastic valve is $126 and our $ is the same as yours...you guys think you are getting stung. Also its a good idea to thoroughly clean the fuel bowl seat after removing the old valve as those yellow remnants you can clearly see in your vid, left after removal will contaminate the new seals. Also drain the bowl every service period to remove any water and dirt at the base of the bowl this will keep the o rings in the valve more subtle and help injector life span. Cheers Stu
Guys are asking how much the part costs. I paid $7 for the 3 new fluoro type seals from Diesel O-Rings in Colorado. USPS Priority shipping $11. They lost the package with tracking. Late delivery by several days. USPS is bad. Pay more for UPS or FEDEX. Faster. Safer. The real cost of all of this is not the parts, but is the diesel fuel dripping and wasting on the ground at $6.30 gallon in California. No thanks to Biden. I've probably lost several hundred dollars over the years from this leaking. Probably losing over 50% of my fuel now. It got real bad. Bad. Dripping and leaving a trail everywhere I go. Making a mess in parking lots. Trying to fix it now while living on the road. The challenge is fixing it before they tow you away. Can't just stop and fix it anywhere in the big city. Can't wait to solve this expensive leaking problem. Thanks for the video help. JR
Thanks for the video! This resolved the leak on my 2001 7.3 diesel F250, without having to remove the filter housing. I have big hands, so it took me about an hour. I bought the MotorCraft valve on Amazon for $40.
I just did this to the fuel bowl in my 2002 7.3. The "cheap" o-rings have a yellow PTFE coating which is what gets eaten up by ULSD. Then that stuff tends to stick to the drain valve stem and the fuel bowl. All you need is some lacquer thinner on a rag and a little elbow grease and that crap comes right off. I went a few steps further and I removed the bowl completely from the engine and changed all the seals using a kit I got from dieselorings.com. As for the drain valve, I used the blue flourosilicone o-rings instead of the green neoprene ones because supposedly they're the best o-rings for the application. Only time will tell if they'll live up to the hype lol.
thank you for posting. I have this problem now. I could tell where it was coming from but didn't see how it came apart until I saw yours apart. common problem with ford they put cheap o rings in at factory then when they start leaking sell you the the green neoprene o rings. they do the same thing on the freon lines on the air conditioner
Very true. The ultralow Diesel available for purchase(courtesy USGOV) has cost many light diesel owners THOUSANDS in fuel leaks and worse: Fuel Pump Repair/replacement. As mentioned by others, simply add 1 quart 30 wt OIL at fill up. Some say to use transmission fluid. I prefer straight Oil that doesn't contain additives to coat my cylinders with crud/byproducts. To each his/her/own. Obama sucks for not telling us the end result of this action. TRANSPARENCY right? LOL .
Very good video. Thank you. I think I will check the 4 screws to see if they are tight first. If that doesn't work, then off to my local Ford dealer for the drain valve kit.
@MooseBaker 7.3L Powerstrokes self-purge. Also, the fuel rails in the heads should stay primed when you drain the fuel-water separator. The manual says to fill the bowl back up before replacing the cap, but I don't think it's an absolute necessity. The electric fuel pump on the frame rail fills it up rather quickly.
Update on O-rings from Professor Foam: Correct diameter for back of valve, but not thick enough. This would cause it to not properly mate with fuel bowl holes. I went out and bought one from the local Ford stealership for about $62. The O-rings on this valve are now bluish-green instead of yellow. Now I need to get together all of the correct viton O-rings to rebuild the old valve and the fuel bowl. One last tip, don't tighten the torx screws too tight, they're tricky to get out! One
I know this is an old video I don't know if you're still around on the UA-cam's but got a quick question for you. Where was the puddle in relation to the truck when it was parked? That is did it look like it was coming off the oil pan? I have the same thing going on
Question. Fuel Bowl Drain Lever O-Ring Seal Leak. I have the 2001 Ford 7.3 Powerstroke E450 Turbo Diesel. 24 Foot long El Dorado bus van type body converted to MH / RV. Hard to access and work on. Tight crammed jammed space. Hard to get hands and tools down in there. Not easy and open access. How long did it take to gain access to the fuel bowl? And to take off and replace o-ring seals and lever? Total time in and out for this job? Thanks. JR
@bluetwo7282 Hello, no I did not remove the fuel bowl period I I left it intact replace the all rings fuel filter top lid with seal fuel pump period that solved the leaking problem of the fuel bowl orings. Much cheaper if you buy the O-rings in a kit from Harbor Freight. I got the special ones from some diesel guys but frankly spent $7 for like 3 rings and you can get a whole kit with many of them in it like over 100 or 200 for only 20 bucks from Harbor freight. Probably they would do just as good. It was a very frustrating job I was broken down on the street and in parking lots trying to fix it and it was very difficult to get to the fuel bowl and you had to remove alternator intake air hoses for the turbocharger and the black plastic air pressure box and brackets and stuff period what a pain in the neck job so hard to access. All done and going good JR
@@jeffread3388 ok great info Jeff 👍 I'll check ✅ Harbor Freight for O rings and hope they are good as online blue color Fluorosilicon rings for diesel. Yes my 7.3 Ford 1999 Van also has fuel bowl stuck in back of hood so difficult to access. Thanks again and all the Best in 2023 🙏
Hi. Yeah compare the the price the quantity the quality of those silicone o-rings. The ones I bought from the diesel guys in Colorado with $7 for 3 of them which is a lot of money to spend for three little silicone O-rings that are supposed to be high temperature chemical resistant blah blah blah and then you have to spend like $11 for them to ship it to you and then I requested a change of address and then the post office charge me another $10 for that and then they lost my simple little Express Mail envelope package for like a week and there was no tracking it was horrible tracking it was lost for a week with no updated information it just said it was stuck and lost in this one city at a central post office package handling Distribution Center and nobody knew where it was and then suddenly it shows up again on the radar and then it's finally delivered and by the time you notice the notification it's been there like a day. Boy people think the US Post Office is a good service just because you got a tracking number. They're just as bad as stupid Biden who can't get anything done and yet they live off of our government our salary our pension and everything. So disappointed in all of this stuff everything from Biden the government congress senate the US Post Office can't figure out how to do things and make a profit can't track stinking rotten package. Can you imagine that the US government doesn't even have a tracking system is good as FedEx UPS Uber drivers Uber Eats any of these delivery apps that are down to the second down to the foot GPS location and yet the government and the post office with all the money all the taxes and they can steal money from us taxpayers and grab millions and billions of dollars and they got everything they need they got all the money they got all the programmers in the developers and everybody but they can't get one single simple stupid little thing done right. Okay I finally got the package I open it up there's these three little rainbow colored floral carbon special little O-rings that I just spent $7 for these little tiny simple O-rings that would cost so little to make. Anyway so I waited to get them. We installed them. We solve the lake I had for about 3 or 4 years which was getting worse and worse with the high price of diesel fuel thank you to stupid dumb jackass Joe biden. Okay so compare the kit at Harbor freight. Make sure they still have it. My friend had gotten it but it been a while ago maybe years. But it had like hundreds of different sizes of silicon O-rings for like $20? Okay my vehicle is over 22 years old. So I don't know how long it will last but let's say the O-ring will last another 21 years so it's worth it just to get the big kit with hundreds of them for 20 bucks instead of paying $7 for three little O-rings just because they're like look pretty with a rainbow color. I frankly don't think if you put them side by side and compare them that those cheaper ones from Harbor Freight are going to be any worse. They're supposed to also be high temperature and chemical resistant. They gave you a kit of many different sizes. Because of running out of fuel several times the fuel line drained down no fuel in there so the fuel pump must have overheated and it finally burned out. So I had to replace the fuel pump too. If your vehicle's old and the fuel pump hasn't been replaced then if I were you I just replaced the dang thing. They're pretty easy to access on the rail on the driver side under the driver's door area about a foot in or so. The big challenges making sure you get all the air out of the system and get the fuel primed up all the way from the tank up the line through the fuel pump all the way up to the fuel bowl and then you want to fill that fill Bowl up with feel before you put the lid on it and make sure that that valve is closed and don't leave a screw out of there like my friend did so then it was still leaking afterwards make sure you put all the screws back in there. Make sure the fuel bowl LED and gasket seal is properly seated so it seals up. Get everything primed up good. And don't do it my friend did he kept cranking the starter motor so much and later he burned that out so I had to replace that. Don't use the starter motor to try to get the engine going when the fuel line isn't even prime properly and they're still air in there. Another little trick is you turn the key on for about 20-30 seconds to let the fuel pump turn on and pump. Then you turn the key off and then you turn it on again and you do that about 10 times or more that's a good way to get fuel in there and to Prime up the pump but it's better to make sure you fill it up to the top when you put that lid on. Of course follow all the instructions. Make sure everything's clean so you're not getting some dirt in there. We had a horrible time a heck of a time because I live on the road full time and I was broken down in the city. I was getting parking lot security coming Property Owners coming shopping area security people calling the police on me like they doing the city. They get real mean and nasty if you're broken down. They have no mercy. I hope everyone of these heartless people break down and have the worst experience of their life so they can finally understand what it's like. I had to have friends told me around with a tow strap with different vehicles pick up trucks. We had the tow all the time to get out of places because I was constantly under the threat of being towed away at the price of a thousand bucks in less than a day and cops coming people being really total nazis. Little mini hitler's. We towed the vehicle day and night sometimes after midnight to avoid the traffic in the city. We towed it all over the place over nine times because everywhere we went we could only be there for a period of time and we try to fix it wherever we went and get what we could get done and then we had to go to another place because we get chased away. The tow strap worked really good that I got from Harbor freight. Imagine being towed by a pickup truck with a nylon tow strap sometimes easy flat ground parking lots and then streets and up and over a bridge over freeway and back down and bad breaks and no lights on because the battery was dead at 1:00 a.m. and we would work on it sometimes up to 2:00 a.m. in the dark in a parking lot in the cold of the night. I've done this kind of stuff many different times and survived many different things. Join me on my UA-cam channel and on Instagram under the same name of Road Warriors 360. I'm going to jump start my UA-cam channel this year soon and I'm making a brand and merchandise stickers t-shirts and hats. So everyone's invited. I've lived on the road over 22 years full-time 24/7. But I started doing this as a teenager I lived in a old 1940s fifties big Bakery truck van back in 1972 and 74 on the streets of Los angeles. I was only 12 and 14 years old. Okay enjoy me on social media and let me know send a message so I know it's you. Thank you. Happy new year. Jr
The big problem though if you do that priming turn of the key off and on 10 times every time you do that the glow plugs are going to heat up so you're going to drain your battery down so you really need to have a vehicle there to help charge up your battery until you can get your engine started and charge up your own battery. So yeah every time you turn that key off and on then your glow plugs are going to heat up 10 times and that definitely will drain your battery down so then when you try to start you won't have enough power to start up because you have to have everything just right to start up the diesel engine you have to have the batteries charge up real good so you get the RPMs the cranks got to be strong so you get the turnover and you got to have the compression has to be right and all those things the numbers have to be right to start up to cause combustion. So the problem of course when you're trying to do this by yourself you don't have all that so you got to have someone to help you someone with another vehicle and when you're doing this turning key off and on you have them hook up jumper cables to your battery to be charging it up so you're not draining it down. So that's the big problem because you're trying to get it started but you have to first prime it I'm good so you finally get it primed up good but then your batteries will be dead by then and you won't be able to turn the engine over and so there's always these challenges when you're trying to do these things. So keep that in mind when I did that I had someone with a big truck with that big engine and jumper cables hooked up to mine to help me do that so I didn't train my battery. Also sometimes when your engine won't start sometimes I've had that where I cranked I got the engine started but then it was cold and I didn't accelerate the fuel pedal and keep the RPMs up and get it warmed up for about a minute then it uses good and so the engine stopped and then it went start again I didn't know why and I had fuel I wasn't low on fuel so I couldn't figure out why so one time I was broken down for a whole week in a place and I thought I'm not out of fuel maybe some air got in the line maybe some water I don't know but after about a week and I checked all the codes and I had to have people come and give me a ride cuz I was away from the stores so finally as a last resort I went to Walmart and I bought a I can of starter fluid. Definitely have yourself a can of starter fluid it's like less than five bucks and so it says on the bottle whoever wrote the English it's all messed up on the instructions it'll say a spray like 3 to 4 seconds and then I'll say but no more than 3 seconds. So when you read the instructions it's like stupid it's like someone didn't do it right and they got that printed on the side I can and nobody's like what the heck nobody ever corrected it all these years you know. So what I do is I use a stopwatch little digital watch and then I I hit it and it starts rolling and I for 3 seconds I spray that and don't stop and feel that up with starter fluid and I'm by myself so I have to run from the front back to the inside and then I turn it and it'll start to try to start up and it won't do it yet and then I have to go back and do it one more time and it starts up. So that's a really good trick. But you have to make sure what I do is I turn the key on the glow plugs go on as soon as the light says ready to start or the light says wait to start when that light goes out and it's ready I then wait like 2 minutes just to make sure it's all cooled off cuz you don't want to spray that in there when the glow plugs are hot or you may blow your whole engine apart and destroy it that stuff is really powerful very what's the word high combustion or whatever. So you have the key on you wait 2 minutes after the light goes out to make sure it's cooled off then you spray it in there for 3 seconds non-stop into the air intake I have everything pulled off so I just have the air intake hose and I have like a cloth over it to keep junk from getting in because I've been working on it and I don't want to put all the fuel the air filter system on there and then have to take it off. So I spray it right down in there three full seconds and you leave the key on you never turn the key off and that way the glow plugs don't ever go on again and that way you don't have to wait another 2 minutes again and then you just put that three seconds in there and if it doesn't start you do it for another 3 seconds again. And so I'm running back and forth from the front spring it in running back and then turn the key to start the engine but once again I never turn the key off while I'm doing this because I don't want the glow plugs to come on again and wait another 2 minutes. So once you do that once my glow plugs do not go on again unless you turn the key all the way off. These are little tricks that me and my friend he's an engineer and we come up with these things we search online we search diesel forums and we find out stuff. By the way search online and find these diesel forums Powerstroke forums and join them and then you can ask questions and there's like diesel mechanics authorized dealership you know Ford guys in there and other people and you get a lot of people responding and you always get those know-it-all guys that tell you something that may not be right so you make sure you get plenty of advice plenty of people and then you have to figure out which ones are right and which ones are wrong and hopefully you get to the right answer. Well it's 4:55 a.m. I haven't gone to sleep all night I got to go to bed it's cold I got to have something hot to drink I live 24/7 in my bus it's winter time in Southern California which is still cold for us it's all relative to where you are. It's much more better here than east coast Midwest but still you know gets down to like low 40s and First Southern California that's cold. If you're in your vehicle and you're at that temperature you will start getting cold so you got to have something hot to drink and dress warm and I sleep with about seven layers of sleeping bags and different blankets and stuff and that keeps me nice and warm and toasty in the winter time. In the daytime it warms up except we've been having cold rain lots of rain gray skies Doom and Gloom dark days sometimes no sunlight and so it's kind of cold and wet and damp all day but it's much better than other places where it's frozen ice cold down below zero. That's why I live here it's more mild. I've lived over 22 years full-time 24/7 in my bus Van RV in the city. I do it because it's the cheapest way I could live and survive cannot afford a house or apartment or anything it's very expensive here and I'm older now and I don't want to be wasting money on that I would go broke fast. So because I don't have to pay rent no mortgage no payments I'm able to live cheap and live a long time and I don't have to like go be a slave and work some job I don't like just to have a bed a room in someone's house I don't want to live in somebody else's house. I like being my own boss. Okay good night. Follow me on my Channel Road Warriors 360 and also Instagram. Thank you. JR
Diesel is definately the best fuel there is! And also, in your 2009 chistmas contest fifth prize was some diesel-scented candles, could you do a video about how to make them? please? :)
@MrDonzzie used cooking oil is a great deal so is turkey fat beef renderings and many other "foods" but not foods that people or animals should be eating.
Great video! just replaced mine today after find a leak.. But what a pain in the butt getting at those bolts was.. Also after replacing it it still leaked until i tightend it up a bit.. how tight should those bolts be? thanks
Steve Dudley, are you sure your a Cummings fan or a Cummins fan? Either way the v10 is by far the lesser choice between that and the 7.3. My dad has a v10 and my 7.3 will out pull it all day long and get better mileage. That being said the v10 is one hell of a grocery getter.
@MDizzel16 this is another problem other than the lack of sulfur for sure. would contact ford to make sure what the real problem is. sulfur in diesel fuel really is a bad thing it's not just eco maniacs making noise really don't need it in diesel fuel. there are other things that are good for lubrication in diesel . biodiesel trucks run just fine without it as a matter of fact run better. dont' drink the coolaide sir. extremisim in any direction is wrong.
My fuel bowl was leaking around the cap ! I replaced it and had it fixed for a short while and now fuel is seeping out around the cap again. It must be a real problem with these fuel bowl seals or something You know anything about this problem with other people?
are sergio, I have a 1998 V8 FORD AND 350ECOLINE. I have no problem of diesel after 5 minutes that is running off as if there were no oil in the filter decreases slightly. I have both a clean filter in this side of the filter that everything completely disassembling the tank, the tap which is also present in my filter, is that it can not be the cause of light loss, so I empty the filter? causing me stop the motor. I think I understand that your lost slightly right? hello and thank Sergio
You can buy the o-rings from McMaster Carr, their made from viton, you won't have replace it again for along time, you get pack of 12 for 5$ I think I paid.
I have a 96 7.3 PS turbo.My fuel leak is the seal of the fuel filter.I have replaced it with 3 different ones and each one has leaked.Am I going to have to replace my whole fuel bowl assembly?
Hey quick question. I have a 94 7.3 turbo and i narrowed the diesel leak down to that valve i think. What exactly is it called and where did you get the new one?
I have a 95 stroke an it has been leaking off of the sensor that tells if there is water in my fuel. Could it be the same thing? It was leaking, then it stopped, then it started again and became worse. Thanks
New viton seals on ebay for $5.00. unfortunately you're probably going to have to do this again in a year or so since you got the ford parts, not sure, but I don't think they're viton seals.
actually, there are some seals even better than viton. They're called fluorosilicone seals and you can get them at a web site called "deisel o-rings.com" you can also check out riff raff diesel, they have the fluorosilicone seals and the drain valve for 35.00, which I know you don't need, but just in case. All that said, I would absolutely get the fluorosilicone seals for the drain valve as the ones from ford are guaranteed to leak again soon.
cologne oh de road dog. ford should provide this free they knew this would be a problem when they designed and built this vehicle. if they didn't then I would stop buying their truck because obviously they are missing important desing considerations in other areas.
I used to think the diesel and exhaust smelled good when I was a kid....but after 30 years of driving a truck, I can hardly stand it! Now coal smoke on the other hand, that smells good!
i would check with a licensed diesel mechanic, i have a 97 7.3 myself, what people dont realize is that until 98 the 7.3 was made by international, 98 wqs the first year that the ford made the 7.3 motor for the trucks themselves so some things may be different
not sure where you got your information, but international built every 7.3 engine ford ever used.. they also built every 6.0 and 6.4 afterwards. 6.7 is the first one that ford built themselves.
Repaired the same leak just by opening and closing the valve a few times when engine was at running temp no seal replacement try it it works.....at least on two occasions.......I run three powerstrokes and had this issue with two of them.......just saying......Frog
I swore I've been leaking diesel and everyone kept trying to tell me it's oil even though my mileage has been crappy and my oil levels fine. I looked EVERYWHERE (that I could see) and just couldn't find where it was coming from. Now since stumbling upon this video I looked right were you said and indeed I believe I've found my issue. Thank you so much! Now I just have to try to do it. Wish you would have shown you taking it off. I'm a pretty lousy DIY'er. Just eveyone wants several hundred to do what looks like a simple swap.
I swear I don't have a single issue with my car but I can't stop watching your videos they are absolutly fantastic my friends love them as well!! Please keep it up you calm teaching genius.
Great video. Best one ive seen to fix the problem. walked me through the process.
I was able to go on ebay and find the oring/selas on ebay. Was a lot cheaper and fixed the problem. they were less than $4.
I searched """7.3 L Ford Fuel Filter Bowl Drain Valve O rings""""
Don't trust eBay parts. They never last. Use Motorcraft or nothing.
ahhhh I came out to leaky leaky this morning,,, thx for the video, nice to know I don't have to take the fuel bowl off to do this repair.
Thank you for the video, I appreciate your efforts as it is hard to get a camera in such a tight spot. Well done!
yes it is. I never saw what he was looking at and never heard the name of the valve. That info would help.
i wish i had seen this video before i took my truck to the dealer, took them two days to fix, and 230 bucks from my pocket...oh well now i know.. thanks for posting...i really appreciate it.
Great video thanks. I had a big leak today... diesel all over the driveway today. Scary... but now I know what the problem is. Thanks!
O ring kit $11 at Advance AP
O ring kit (3) from Advance AP. $11
Thanks much. Very helpful video, down to giving us the right torx key size. I had one loose screw on the valve that I tightened and seemed to fix the leak. If it continues to leak, I'll know what to replace and where to find it. Much appreciated.
My gosh dude I have the same exact problem with my truck. Thanks your videos are very easy to see and explain I will be fixing this problem on my truck
In Australia that plastic valve is $126 and our $ is the same as yours...you guys think you are getting stung. Also its a good idea to thoroughly clean the fuel bowl seat after removing the old valve as those yellow remnants you can clearly see in your vid, left after removal will contaminate the new seals. Also drain the bowl every service period to remove any water and dirt at the base of the bowl this will keep the o rings in the valve more subtle and help injector life span. Cheers Stu
Great video I have this problem and I was unable to determine where the leak was coming from until watching your video.
Thanks this convinced me to get the whole valve assy.
Guys are asking how much the part costs. I paid $7 for the 3 new fluoro type seals from Diesel O-Rings in Colorado. USPS Priority shipping $11. They lost the package with tracking. Late delivery by several days. USPS is bad. Pay more for UPS or FEDEX. Faster. Safer. The real cost of all of this is not the parts, but is the diesel fuel dripping and wasting on the ground at $6.30 gallon in California. No thanks to Biden. I've probably lost several hundred dollars over the years from this leaking. Probably losing over 50% of my fuel now. It got real bad. Bad. Dripping and leaving a trail everywhere I go. Making a mess in parking lots. Trying to fix it now while living on the road. The challenge is fixing it before they tow you away. Can't just stop and fix it anywhere in the big city. Can't wait to solve this expensive leaking problem. Thanks for the video help. JR
Thanks for the video!
This resolved the leak on my 2001 7.3 diesel F250, without having to remove the filter housing. I have big hands, so it took me about an hour. I bought the MotorCraft valve on Amazon for $40.
Is that the water separator valve
I just did this to the fuel bowl in my 2002 7.3. The "cheap" o-rings have a yellow PTFE coating which is what gets eaten up by ULSD. Then that stuff tends to stick to the drain valve stem and the fuel bowl. All you need is some lacquer thinner on a rag and a little elbow grease and that crap comes right off. I went a few steps further and I removed the bowl completely from the engine and changed all the seals using a kit I got from dieselorings.com. As for the drain valve, I used the blue flourosilicone o-rings instead of the green neoprene ones because supposedly they're the best o-rings for the application. Only time will tell if they'll live up to the hype lol.
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thank you for posting. I have this problem now. I could tell where it was coming from but didn't see how it came apart until I saw yours apart. common problem with ford they put cheap o rings in at factory then when they start leaking sell you the the green neoprene o rings. they do the same thing on the freon lines on the air conditioner
Very true. The ultralow Diesel available for purchase(courtesy USGOV) has cost many light diesel owners THOUSANDS in fuel leaks and worse: Fuel Pump Repair/replacement.
As mentioned by others, simply add 1 quart 30 wt OIL at fill up. Some say to use transmission fluid. I prefer straight Oil that doesn't contain additives to coat my cylinders with crud/byproducts.
To each his/her/own.
Obama sucks for not telling us the end result of this action. TRANSPARENCY right?
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Regular oil or synthetic?
Very good video. Thank you. I think I will check the 4 screws to see if they are tight first. If that doesn't work, then off to my local Ford dealer for the drain valve kit.
You can also buy the orings, clean the valve and replace the orings. under $10 dollars with shipping. Make sure you get the new style orings.
Where do you get them? Are the new style the green ones?
@@MrBearbait75 dieselorings.com has them. they have both styles
thanks just fixed my 7.3 today. no more fuel smell.
2022 and i might need my original valve on my 99 7.3 great video.
@MooseBaker 7.3L Powerstrokes self-purge. Also, the fuel rails in the heads should stay primed when you drain the fuel-water separator. The manual says to fill the bowl back up before replacing the cap, but I don't think it's an absolute necessity. The electric fuel pump on the frame rail fills it up rather quickly.
I love the flagrant disregard for the environment and just drain the diesel straight into the water table. Other than that... thanks for the info!
Thanks Daniel, just had that problem on my 7.3L
Update on O-rings from Professor Foam: Correct diameter for back of valve, but not thick enough. This would cause it to not properly mate with fuel bowl holes. I went out and bought one from the local Ford stealership for about $62. The O-rings on this valve are now bluish-green instead of yellow. Now I need to get together all of the correct viton O-rings to rebuild the old valve and the fuel bowl. One last tip, don't tighten the torx screws too tight, they're tricky to get out!
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Thanks for the vid I have 160k on my 7.3 2002 trk and I was thinking of taking it to the dealer. looks like an easy fix.........cool
I know this is an old video I don't know if you're still around on the UA-cam's but got a quick question for you. Where was the puddle in relation to the truck when it was parked? That is did it look like it was coming off the oil pan? I have the same thing going on
Question. Fuel Bowl Drain Lever O-Ring Seal Leak. I have the 2001 Ford 7.3 Powerstroke E450 Turbo Diesel. 24 Foot long El Dorado bus van type body converted to MH / RV. Hard to access and work on. Tight crammed jammed space. Hard to get hands and tools down in there. Not easy and open access. How long did it take to gain access to the fuel bowl? And to take off and replace o-ring seals and lever? Total time in and out for this job? Thanks. JR
Same here, did u remove whole bowl ?
@bluetwo7282 Hello, no I did not remove the fuel bowl period I I left it intact replace the all rings fuel filter top lid with seal fuel pump period that solved the leaking problem of the fuel bowl orings. Much cheaper if you buy the O-rings in a kit from Harbor Freight. I got the special ones from some diesel guys but frankly spent $7 for like 3 rings and you can get a whole kit with many of them in it like over 100 or 200 for only 20 bucks from Harbor freight. Probably they would do just as good. It was a very frustrating job I was broken down on the street and in parking lots trying to fix it and it was very difficult to get to the fuel bowl and you had to remove alternator intake air hoses for the turbocharger and the black plastic air pressure box and brackets and stuff period what a pain in the neck job so hard to access. All done and going good JR
@@jeffread3388 ok great info Jeff 👍 I'll check ✅ Harbor Freight for O rings and hope they are good as online blue color Fluorosilicon rings for diesel. Yes my 7.3 Ford 1999 Van also has fuel bowl stuck in back of hood so difficult to access. Thanks again and all the Best in 2023 🙏
Hi. Yeah compare the the price the quantity the quality of those silicone o-rings. The ones I bought from the diesel guys in Colorado with $7 for 3 of them which is a lot of money to spend for three little silicone O-rings that are supposed to be high temperature chemical resistant blah blah blah and then you have to spend like $11 for them to ship it to you and then I requested a change of address and then the post office charge me another $10 for that and then they lost my simple little Express Mail envelope package for like a week and there was no tracking it was horrible tracking it was lost for a week with no updated information it just said it was stuck and lost in this one city at a central post office package handling Distribution Center and nobody knew where it was and then suddenly it shows up again on the radar and then it's finally delivered and by the time you notice the notification it's been there like a day. Boy people think the US Post Office is a good service just because you got a tracking number. They're just as bad as stupid Biden who can't get anything done and yet they live off of our government our salary our pension and everything. So disappointed in all of this stuff everything from Biden the government congress senate the US Post Office can't figure out how to do things and make a profit can't track stinking rotten package. Can you imagine that the US government doesn't even have a tracking system is good as FedEx UPS Uber drivers Uber Eats any of these delivery apps that are down to the second down to the foot GPS location and yet the government and the post office with all the money all the taxes and they can steal money from us taxpayers and grab millions and billions of dollars and they got everything they need they got all the money they got all the programmers in the developers and everybody but they can't get one single simple stupid little thing done right. Okay I finally got the package I open it up there's these three little rainbow colored floral carbon special little O-rings that I just spent $7 for these little tiny simple O-rings that would cost so little to make. Anyway so I waited to get them. We installed them. We solve the lake I had for about 3 or 4 years which was getting worse and worse with the high price of diesel fuel thank you to stupid dumb jackass Joe biden. Okay so compare the kit at Harbor freight. Make sure they still have it. My friend had gotten it but it been a while ago maybe years. But it had like hundreds of different sizes of silicon O-rings for like $20? Okay my vehicle is over 22 years old. So I don't know how long it will last but let's say the O-ring will last another 21 years so it's worth it just to get the big kit with hundreds of them for 20 bucks instead of paying $7 for three little O-rings just because they're like look pretty with a rainbow color. I frankly don't think if you put them side by side and compare them that those cheaper ones from Harbor Freight are going to be any worse. They're supposed to also be high temperature and chemical resistant. They gave you a kit of many different sizes. Because of running out of fuel several times the fuel line drained down no fuel in there so the fuel pump must have overheated and it finally burned out. So I had to replace the fuel pump too. If your vehicle's old and the fuel pump hasn't been replaced then if I were you I just replaced the dang thing. They're pretty easy to access on the rail on the driver side under the driver's door area about a foot in or so. The big challenges making sure you get all the air out of the system and get the fuel primed up all the way from the tank up the line through the fuel pump all the way up to the fuel bowl and then you want to fill that fill Bowl up with feel before you put the lid on it and make sure that that valve is closed and don't leave a screw out of there like my friend did so then it was still leaking afterwards make sure you put all the screws back in there. Make sure the fuel bowl LED and gasket seal is properly seated so it seals up. Get everything primed up good. And don't do it my friend did he kept cranking the starter motor so much and later he burned that out so I had to replace that. Don't use the starter motor to try to get the engine going when the fuel line isn't even prime properly and they're still air in there. Another little trick is you turn the key on for about 20-30 seconds to let the fuel pump turn on and pump. Then you turn the key off and then you turn it on again and you do that about 10 times or more that's a good way to get fuel in there and to Prime up the pump but it's better to make sure you fill it up to the top when you put that lid on. Of course follow all the instructions. Make sure everything's clean so you're not getting some dirt in there. We had a horrible time a heck of a time because I live on the road full time and I was broken down in the city. I was getting parking lot security coming Property Owners coming shopping area security people calling the police on me like they doing the city. They get real mean and nasty if you're broken down. They have no mercy. I hope everyone of these heartless people break down and have the worst experience of their life so they can finally understand what it's like. I had to have friends told me around with a tow strap with different vehicles pick up trucks. We had the tow all the time to get out of places because I was constantly under the threat of being towed away at the price of a thousand bucks in less than a day and cops coming people being really total nazis. Little mini hitler's. We towed the vehicle day and night sometimes after midnight to avoid the traffic in the city. We towed it all over the place over nine times because everywhere we went we could only be there for a period of time and we try to fix it wherever we went and get what we could get done and then we had to go to another place because we get chased away. The tow strap worked really good that I got from Harbor freight. Imagine being towed by a pickup truck with a nylon tow strap sometimes easy flat ground parking lots and then streets and up and over a bridge over freeway and back down and bad breaks and no lights on because the battery was dead at 1:00 a.m. and we would work on it sometimes up to 2:00 a.m. in the dark in a parking lot in the cold of the night. I've done this kind of stuff many different times and survived many different things. Join me on my UA-cam channel and on Instagram under the same name of Road Warriors 360. I'm going to jump start my UA-cam channel this year soon and I'm making a brand and merchandise stickers t-shirts and hats. So everyone's invited. I've lived on the road over 22 years full-time 24/7. But I started doing this as a teenager I lived in a old 1940s fifties big Bakery truck van back in 1972 and 74 on the streets of Los angeles. I was only 12 and 14 years old. Okay enjoy me on social media and let me know send a message so I know it's you. Thank you. Happy new year. Jr
The big problem though if you do that priming turn of the key off and on 10 times every time you do that the glow plugs are going to heat up so you're going to drain your battery down so you really need to have a vehicle there to help charge up your battery until you can get your engine started and charge up your own battery. So yeah every time you turn that key off and on then your glow plugs are going to heat up 10 times and that definitely will drain your battery down so then when you try to start you won't have enough power to start up because you have to have everything just right to start up the diesel engine you have to have the batteries charge up real good so you get the RPMs the cranks got to be strong so you get the turnover and you got to have the compression has to be right and all those things the numbers have to be right to start up to cause combustion. So the problem of course when you're trying to do this by yourself you don't have all that so you got to have someone to help you someone with another vehicle and when you're doing this turning key off and on you have them hook up jumper cables to your battery to be charging it up so you're not draining it down. So that's the big problem because you're trying to get it started but you have to first prime it I'm good so you finally get it primed up good but then your batteries will be dead by then and you won't be able to turn the engine over and so there's always these challenges when you're trying to do these things. So keep that in mind when I did that I had someone with a big truck with that big engine and jumper cables hooked up to mine to help me do that so I didn't train my battery. Also sometimes when your engine won't start sometimes I've had that where I cranked I got the engine started but then it was cold and I didn't accelerate the fuel pedal and keep the RPMs up and get it warmed up for about a minute then it uses good and so the engine stopped and then it went start again I didn't know why and I had fuel I wasn't low on fuel so I couldn't figure out why so one time I was broken down for a whole week in a place and I thought I'm not out of fuel maybe some air got in the line maybe some water I don't know but after about a week and I checked all the codes and I had to have people come and give me a ride cuz I was away from the stores so finally as a last resort I went to Walmart and I bought a I can of starter fluid. Definitely have yourself a can of starter fluid it's like less than five bucks and so it says on the bottle whoever wrote the English it's all messed up on the instructions it'll say a spray like 3 to 4 seconds and then I'll say but no more than 3 seconds. So when you read the instructions it's like stupid it's like someone didn't do it right and they got that printed on the side I can and nobody's like what the heck nobody ever corrected it all these years you know. So what I do is I use a stopwatch little digital watch and then I I hit it and it starts rolling and I for 3 seconds I spray that and don't stop and feel that up with starter fluid and I'm by myself so I have to run from the front back to the inside and then I turn it and it'll start to try to start up and it won't do it yet and then I have to go back and do it one more time and it starts up. So that's a really good trick. But you have to make sure what I do is I turn the key on the glow plugs go on as soon as the light says ready to start or the light says wait to start when that light goes out and it's ready I then wait like 2 minutes just to make sure it's all cooled off cuz you don't want to spray that in there when the glow plugs are hot or you may blow your whole engine apart and destroy it that stuff is really powerful very what's the word high combustion or whatever. So you have the key on you wait 2 minutes after the light goes out to make sure it's cooled off then you spray it in there for 3 seconds non-stop into the air intake I have everything pulled off so I just have the air intake hose and I have like a cloth over it to keep junk from getting in because I've been working on it and I don't want to put all the fuel the air filter system on there and then have to take it off. So I spray it right down in there three full seconds and you leave the key on you never turn the key off and that way the glow plugs don't ever go on again and that way you don't have to wait another 2 minutes again and then you just put that three seconds in there and if it doesn't start you do it for another 3 seconds again. And so I'm running back and forth from the front spring it in running back and then turn the key to start the engine but once again I never turn the key off while I'm doing this because I don't want the glow plugs to come on again and wait another 2 minutes. So once you do that once my glow plugs do not go on again unless you turn the key all the way off. These are little tricks that me and my friend he's an engineer and we come up with these things we search online we search diesel forums and we find out stuff. By the way search online and find these diesel forums Powerstroke forums and join them and then you can ask questions and there's like diesel mechanics authorized dealership you know Ford guys in there and other people and you get a lot of people responding and you always get those know-it-all guys that tell you something that may not be right so you make sure you get plenty of advice plenty of people and then you have to figure out which ones are right and which ones are wrong and hopefully you get to the right answer. Well it's 4:55 a.m. I haven't gone to sleep all night I got to go to bed it's cold I got to have something hot to drink I live 24/7 in my bus it's winter time in Southern California which is still cold for us it's all relative to where you are. It's much more better here than east coast Midwest but still you know gets down to like low 40s and First Southern California that's cold. If you're in your vehicle and you're at that temperature you will start getting cold so you got to have something hot to drink and dress warm and I sleep with about seven layers of sleeping bags and different blankets and stuff and that keeps me nice and warm and toasty in the winter time. In the daytime it warms up except we've been having cold rain lots of rain gray skies Doom and Gloom dark days sometimes no sunlight and so it's kind of cold and wet and damp all day but it's much better than other places where it's frozen ice cold down below zero. That's why I live here it's more mild. I've lived over 22 years full-time 24/7 in my bus Van RV in the city. I do it because it's the cheapest way I could live and survive cannot afford a house or apartment or anything it's very expensive here and I'm older now and I don't want to be wasting money on that I would go broke fast. So because I don't have to pay rent no mortgage no payments I'm able to live cheap and live a long time and I don't have to like go be a slave and work some job I don't like just to have a bed a room in someone's house I don't want to live in somebody else's house. I like being my own boss. Okay good night. Follow me on my Channel Road Warriors 360 and also Instagram. Thank you. JR
2:49, It's not just you, I think it smells good too
"Gasoline car people just don't get it"
The CAR Enthusiast I like the smell of gasoline
Nice video, now i can fix mine. Thanks for the video. A+
Diesel is definately the best fuel there is!
And also, in your 2009 chistmas contest fifth prize was some diesel-scented candles, could you do a video about how to make them? please? :)
Is that the truck Terry borrowed for awhile? I've got the same prob '03 F-350, thanks for the video! Go St Chuck MO!!
Did you use a ratchet with the torx bit to remove it? That's the part I definitely would have liked to see, so I know if I'm doing it correctly.
all you people asking how much it costs..... y god he said it was 60 bucks lol watch and listen and its from the dealership
thank you very much I was very worried it may something serious
I just changed that valve 2 months ago on my 7.3 Excursion!!!!!!
@MrDonzzie used cooking oil is a great deal so is turkey fat beef renderings and many other "foods" but not foods that people or animals should be eating.
Bought 2 o-rings 50 cents each at local industrial pipe supply.
Great video! just replaced mine today after find a leak.. But what a pain in the butt getting at those bolts was.. Also after replacing it it still leaked until i tightend it up a bit.. how tight should those bolts be? thanks
This might be a dumb question, but what size does the O-Ring measure for the 2 drain vavles?
what year is your truck & how many miles? Good Vid. Thanks man.
Steve Dudley, are you sure your a Cummings fan or a Cummins fan? Either way the v10 is by far the lesser choice between that and the 7.3. My dad has a v10 and my 7.3 will out pull it all day long and get better mileage. That being said the v10 is one hell of a grocery getter.
439.I bought the genuine Ford valve from Amazon Prime for $39.50 on 1/24/17.
Did Ford valve come with imoroved blue rings ?
Some say the blue fluorosilicon seals may be better.
@MDizzel16 this is another problem other than the lack of sulfur for sure. would contact ford to make sure what the real problem is. sulfur in diesel fuel really is a bad thing it's not just eco maniacs making noise really don't need it in diesel fuel. there are other things that are good for lubrication in diesel . biodiesel trucks run just fine without it as a matter of fact run better. dont' drink the coolaide sir. extremisim in any direction is wrong.
Thank you!
I'v the same problem¡. Please would you give me the name of the part?. Kind regards from Spain.
My fuel bowl was leaking around the cap ! I replaced it and had it fixed for a short while and now fuel is seeping out around the cap again. It must be a real problem with these fuel bowl seals or something You know anything about this problem with other people?
It there a part number or size on the McMaster Carr viton o-rings
are sergio, I have a 1998 V8 FORD AND 350ECOLINE. I have no problem of diesel after 5 minutes that is running off as if there were no oil in the filter decreases slightly. I have both a clean filter in this side of the filter that everything completely disassembling the tank, the tap which is also present in my filter, is that it can not be the cause of light loss, so I empty the filter? causing me stop the motor. I think I understand that your lost slightly right? hello and thank Sergio
Great video. Thanks.
diesel dose smell good black smoke is even better
thank you for uploading this video ...that's the exact same problem i have with mine right now thanks great vid aaaaaaaaaa++++++++++++++++++++++
You can buy the o-rings from McMaster Carr, their made from viton, you won't have replace it again for along time, you get pack of 12 for 5$ I think I paid.
What size, do you remember? Thanks
Is it better than blue fluorosilicon seals ?
its really windy an cold tonight but no more fuel leak.
great video thanks a million
who makes that flashlight you had ?
any who very cool video for a DIY
Thanks will have to try this
So thats it? you just replaced the valve with a new one? How do you stop the leak from happening again? I've had to replace mine twice now.
I have a 96 7.3 PS turbo.My fuel leak is the seal of the fuel filter.I have replaced it with 3 different ones and each one has leaked.Am I going to have to replace my whole fuel bowl assembly?
Hi did u find solution?
It smells good
thanks for the info.
Hey quick question. I have a 94 7.3 turbo and i narrowed the diesel leak down to that valve i think. What exactly is it called and where did you get the new one?
Does the fuel drain line just pull off. I didn’t see you take it off. Is there a fitting?
It just pulls off. There isn't a clamp on it since it's a low-pressure release.
I think a torx size 20 driver was used on 4 screws 🪛
GOOD video....
now I know to just add two O' rings and NOT buy the expensive part
I have a 95 stroke an it has been leaking off of the sensor that tells if there is water in my fuel. Could it be the same thing? It was leaking, then it stopped, then it started again and became worse. Thanks
You pulled a filter and mixed all the trash with the clean side
Does the new part come with seals that are more resistant to the ULS diesel?
Where else might you get a fuel leak ?
nope its not just you, diesel smells goooooood
New viton seals on ebay for $5.00. unfortunately you're probably going to have to do this again in a year or so since you got the ford parts, not sure, but I don't think they're viton seals.
What is the part #?
actually, there are some seals even better than viton. They're called fluorosilicone seals and you can get them at a web site called "deisel o-rings.com" you can also check out riff raff diesel, they have the fluorosilicone seals and the drain valve for 35.00, which I know you don't need, but just in case. All that said, I would absolutely get the fluorosilicone seals for the drain valve as the ones from ford are guaranteed to leak again soon.
Great, thanks 🙏
diesel smells good.
Put about a quart of transmission fluid when you fill it up
Transmission fluid will lubricate O rings ?
I bet jesus was angry about that 15 ft long strip of diesel...
What’s the part number I’m having the same issue
How old is this video? Because you try and get that kit now is very difficult..
No video of actually removing it
What's the actual name of the part
Didn't have to bleed the lines?
By any chance do you remember the part number?
How drain fuel/water in this filter
Did u go to pundman ford?
How much does a new valve run you?
It’s you
cologne oh de road dog. ford should provide this free they knew this would be a problem when they designed and built this vehicle. if they didn't then I would stop buying their truck because obviously they are missing important desing considerations in other areas.
I wish they made candles that smell like diesel fuel. My wife might not like it, but F her....
ib scooter70 dude that would be awesome
and ones that smell like exhuast from diesel. mmmmmmm
I used to think the diesel and exhaust smelled good when I was a kid....but after 30 years of driving a truck, I can hardly stand it! Now coal smoke on the other hand, that smells good!
You can buy an o-ring kit for less than 10 bucks
Where?
its a water fuel sepertor
Does this apply for a 1997 7.3 as well?
Yes. I have the same issue going on with my 96'. I haven't fixed the issue yet. I was told the same thing from a local diesel shop.
i would check with a licensed diesel mechanic, i have a 97 7.3 myself, what people dont realize is that until 98 the 7.3 was made by international, 98 wqs the first year that the ford made the 7.3 motor for the trucks themselves so some things may be different
not sure where you got your information, but international built every 7.3 engine ford ever used.. they also built every 6.0 and 6.4 afterwards. 6.7 is the first one that ford built themselves.
@richthecardude94 yea i agree w/ ya... i luv the smell of diesel :D
you say 60 bucks is alot for the valve i bet you would ahve gone through 60 bucks in fuel in no time with thos seals gone:D
why are you watching the video then....
Them screws are a bitch!! Why use a torque head! Why not a regular hex??
cool.
haha I also think Diesel smells good
dudley
No such thing as a Cummings. It's Cummins.
This is goofy, I own the same watch and drive a Powerstroke too.
Dudley,...you need to quit smoking that bad stuff. Powerstroke's are know to outlast any V10 engine. Get Real!
Repaired the same leak just by opening and closing the valve a few times when engine was at running temp no seal replacement try it it works.....at least on two occasions.......I run three powerstrokes and had this issue with two of them.......just saying......Frog
Hi good info ☺️ are seals still ok ?