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Old Dec 10, 2016 | 12:47 PM
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Fuel leak around filter area

The truck runs and starts fine but I have a fuel drip around the fuel filter cannister. I don't think it is around the cap, tried wiping it off but hard to see where it is coming from.
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Old Dec 10, 2016 | 06:42 PM
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Big leak? Small leak? Might be a cracked filter canister lid. You can try to wipe everything down then start the truck and at an idle, move a rolled up newspaper in there to see if anything is spraying on it.

#4 injector line is prone to cracking. Don't get your hand/finger anywhere near the High Pressure lines that might be leaking. Newspaper can be replaced, body parts not so much.
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Old Dec 10, 2016 | 06:56 PM
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If the line was cracked would it run rough? I put a metal cap on it years ago so the cap is not cracked. The leak comes and goes, from a drip every 10 seconds or so to nothing. Warmed it up this morning, idled 15 minutes and had a big wet spot, idled same time this afternoon and nothing. On the front of the canister, about 1" down there is a lip, looking aver the tire I could see it dripping off the lip on the back, engine side, then it quit.
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Old Dec 11, 2016 | 08:38 PM
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Check for a cracked / broken water drain valve. The yellow lever on the stock filter canister. If you had a fair amount of water in it when temps plummeted i've seen the valve crack.
Not the lever
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Old Dec 11, 2016 | 10:13 PM
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Presume this only started after you changed the filter? Any chance that you could have mistakenly installed two gaskets (O rings)?
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Old Dec 15, 2016 | 06:39 PM
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It was leaking where the heat element goes in.
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