Removal and installation of the fuel filter carry out in the following order:

– disconnect a wire from the negative plug of the storage battery;

– lift a back part of the car and fix it on supports or use a viewing ditch.

SOHC engines:

– weaken fastening brackets, remove the bottom protection for access to the filter;

Fig. 5.15. Fuel filter of the SOHC engine: 1–fuel hoses, 2 – a collar, 3 – the filter, 4 – the screw

– press fuel hoses 1 (fig. 5.15) from two parties of the filter;

– weaken collars of 2 fastenings of hoses and remove hoses from the filter 3;

– unscrew the screw 4 and remove the filter.

Installation carry out to sequences, return to removal. Shooters on the case of the filter specify the direction of a stream of fuel.

DOHC engines:

– enclose rags under a fuel pressure head hose in a motor compartment;

– slowly weaken connection and remove pressure in fuel system;

– after pressure removal, repeatedly tighten connection;

– unscrew connecting couplings, disconnect hoses from the filter and remove washers from each party of the filter. Washers are subject to replacement together with the filter;

– weaken fastening and remove the filter.

Installation carry out to sequences, return to removal.