Timeline for How to Inspect a Fuel Filter to See if it Needs Replacing?
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | Bob Cross♦ | Incorrect again. That's not how the math works. Every time cells are exposed to a risk factor, they're at risk. Don't put fuel in your mouth. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 13:26 | comment | added | Captain Kenpachi | There's a difference between momentarily being exposed to petrol and coming into contact with it on a daily basis for years. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 13:18 | comment | added | Bob Cross♦ | Incorrect. Gasoline is a cancer risk. The NIH has plenty of studies but this one is the most relevant to putting fuel in your mouth. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1128333 | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 7:14 | comment | added | Captain Kenpachi | Oh please. Unless you swim in the stuff nothing will happen. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 1:34 | comment | added | Bob Cross♦ | Don't ever put your lips anywhere near fuel. Cancer is bad. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 15:44 | comment | added | Captain Kenpachi | It's a 97 model, ergo almost 20 years old. It has a plastic filter. If someone is stupid enough to poke holes anywhere else than the actual filter membrane, then I wash my hands of them. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 15:24 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | If you are going to give a so called Pro tip: to "poke a hole in the filter" you might want to better describe exactly ... as you've stated, the uninitiated may just have fuel spilling out all over the ground creating themselves a very serious fire hazard. Personally, I wouldn't give this information in the first place, as most fuel filters today are self contained within a metal shell ... there is no way to "poke a hole" in the filter element. From my vantage, this isn't a pro tip, but very bad advice in the first place. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 15:14 | history | answered | Captain Kenpachi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |