Fuel filter replacement

[Datzoom]

Changed the fuel filter on my 3.0 today. Thanks to the great info in this post I was able to make sense of the clips. My problem is that the small piece of flexible tubing that connects from the hard plastic line to the vent port on the filter is torn. It looks like a piece of vacuum tubing or similar but it is bonded to the plastic line. Realoem shows the part as being pne piece with ~3" of hard plastic line>

Can I just replace the 3" of rubber line with fuel resistant vacuum line or do I need to get the whole replacement line? It isn't very expensive ($17.00) but it has a long lead time.

Thank you for your help.

Dan

[ArtMan]

Originally Posted by Datzoom

Changed the fuel filter on my 3.0 today. Thanks to the great info in this post I was able to make sense of the clips. My problem is that the small piece of flexible tubing that connects from the hard plastic line to the vent port on the filter is torn. It looks like a piece of vacuum tubing or similar but it is bonded to the plastic line. Realoem shows the part as being pne piece with ~3" of hard plastic line>

Can I just replace the 3" of rubber line with fuel resistant vacuum line or do I need to get the whole replacement line? It isn't very expensive ($17.00) but it has a long lead time.

Thank you for your help.

Dan

hmm i think i know what you speak of its a vacuum hose but it has like a 3 inch rubber hose taht connects to the filter.....mine was stuck on it ripped well it was cracked too so i just took similar vacuum rubber hose and thats the end of that.

[Bmwe5320023.0]

Originally Posted by Datzoom

Changed the fuel filter on my 3.0 today. Thanks to the great info in this post I was able to make sense of the clips. My problem is that the small piece of flexible tubing that connects from the hard plastic line to the vent port on the filter is torn. It looks like a piece of vacuum tubing or similar but it is bonded to the plastic line. Realoem shows the part as being pne piece with ~3" of hard plastic line>

Can I just replace the 3" of rubber line with fuel resistant vacuum line or do I need to get the whole replacement line? It isn't very expensive ($17.00) but it has a long lead time.

Thank you for your help.

Dan

Yes of course you can, it's just a vacuum hose!
I just did it.
I replaced the fuel filter on my X5 2002, it didn't have any of those clips thankfully, so was super easy using the special clamp.


The vacuum hose was getting old and brittle and a piece of it got stuck on the fuel filter nipple, so I replaced it, it's not going anywhere!