Changing 2003 Elantra fuel filter question

[Swingman]

I recently had the car serviced and the shop declined to change the fuel filter, saying that it is located inside the gas tank. Is that correct, and how difficult a job is it to R&R the filter?

 

[Richard Dreyfuss]

I recently had the car serviced and the shop declined to change the
fuel filter, saying that it is located inside the gas tank. Is that
correct, and how difficult a job is it to R&R the filter?

Yep. www.hmaservice.com/webtech confirms it. I did it to my 01
elantra, which is probably similar. While there were no tricky
techniques or special tools, there is a bit of disassembly required.
I'm sending you a couple of pictures, and for lurkers I'm also posting
them in alt.binaries.pictures.autos with the subject "Hyundai fuel
filter project". It shows the access under the rear seat to the
filter/pump/sender unit, and it shows the unit itself. Unfortunately
I didn't take pictures of the unit being taken apart (the filter is
inside).

Hope this helps a little.
Ben

 

[Jim Vatunz]

Yep. www.hmaservice.com/webtech confirms it. I did it to my 01
elantra, which is probably similar. While there were no tricky
techniques or special tools, there is a bit of disassembly required.
I'm sending you a couple of pictures, and for lurkers I'm also posting
them in alt.binaries.pictures.autos with the subject "Hyundai fuel
filter project". It shows the access under the rear seat to the
filter/pump/sender unit, and it shows the unit itself. Unfortunately
I didn't take pictures of the unit being taken apart (the filter is
inside).

Hope this helps a little.
Ben

Superb stuff. Plenty of screws there so i suppose most service people
would regard the extra minute as far too much work to bother doing.
I think the place that serviced that car should have it's bottom
smacked.
In these days of electric high pressure fuel pumps, clogging of fuel
filters puts extra strain on the pumps and thus causes premature
failure of the *expensive* pump. So fuel filters should always be
replaced as per the schedule rather than the old carburetor and manual
pump days when cheapskates like myself would just wait until it was
clogged beyond flow.
Judging by the wires in the photo you've got something powerful fancy
in the boot.

For a very plain website try
http://ii.net/~farmerjim/

 

[Richard Dreyfuss]

Superb stuff. Plenty of screws there so i suppose most service
people would regard the extra minute as far too much work to bother
doing. I think the place that serviced that car should have it's
bottom smacked.
In these days of electric high pressure fuel pumps, clogging of fuel
filters puts extra strain on the pumps and thus causes premature
failure of the *expensive* pump. So fuel filters should always be
replaced as per the schedule rather than the old carburetor and
manual pump days when cheapskates like myself would just wait until
it was clogged beyond flow.
Judging by the wires in the photo you've got something powerful
fancy in the boot.

It does seem like cheap insurance. I wouldn't have initially tried to
change an in-tank filter for thinking it was difficult, but my local
shop (I was having my timing belt changed anyway) wanted around US
$140 for it, and the filter was about $20 from hyundai. Plus the
webtech site makes it seem simple. They left out the main step
(disassembling that unit) but it's not bad.

Judging by the wires in the photo you've got something powerful
fancy in the boot.

Nothing big currently. I do have a 10inch sub in the trunk, with
about 100 watts going to it. Not enough to shake anything, but it
fills in the low end on a lot of music. But a friend offered me 2
gauge wire from his shop for free, so which made it easy to do it
right in case I ever need to add anything (I'm also a ham radio
operator.)

We'll see if anybody else finds this amusing like I did: A friend of
who was big into those thumpy subwoofers didn't bother to fuse the +
line at the battery like you're supposed to. There actually were no
problems, and when he left his lights on in parking spot that pointed
downhill, we were able to jumpstart his car by clipping to his
subwoofer power in the trunk. (yes, we could have just let the battery
charge in that situation, but we had to try it.)

Ben

 

[Jim Vatunz]

It does seem like cheap insurance. I wouldn't have initially tried to
change an in-tank filter for thinking it was difficult, but my local
shop (I was having my timing belt changed anyway) wanted around US
$140 for it, and the filter was about $20 from hyundai. Plus the
webtech site makes it seem simple. They left out the main step
(disassembling that unit) but it's not bad.

Pity you didn't have a photo of it disassembled. or perhaps the server
i'm using didn't pick it up?

Nothing big currently. I do have a 10inch sub in the trunk, with
about 100 watts going to it. Not enough to shake anything, but it
fills in the low end on a lot of music. But a friend offered me 2
gauge wire from his shop for free, so which made it easy to do it
right in case I ever need to add anything (I'm also a ham radio
operator.)

We'll see if anybody else finds this amusing like I did: A friend of
who was big into those thumpy subwoofers didn't bother to fuse the +
line at the battery like you're supposed to. There actually were no
problems, and when he left his lights on in parking spot that pointed
downhill, we were able to jumpstart his car by clipping to his
subwoofer power in the trunk. (yes, we could have just let the battery
charge in that situation, but we had to try it.)

Ben

Shows the value of lateral thinking. Too many people don't seem to be
able to think outside the square.
All i've done to my Accent is replace the standard speakers with twin
speaker jobbos that fit in the same place. Quite adequate for the
ancient music i listen to.

For a very plain website try
http://ii.net/~farmerjim/

 

[Richard Dreyfuss]

Pity you didn't have a photo of it disassembled. or perhaps the server
i'm using didn't pick it up?

Unfortunately that's all I've got. I didn't know I'd be using it to
guide others, otherwise I definately would have taken more.

Ben

 

[Swingman]

Yep. www.hmaservice.com/webtech confirms it. I did it to my 01
elantra, which is probably similar. While there were no tricky
techniques or special tools, there is a bit of disassembly required.
I'm sending you a couple of pictures, and for lurkers I'm also posting
them in alt.binaries.pictures.autos with the subject "Hyundai fuel
filter project". It shows the access under the rear seat to the
filter/pump/sender unit, and it shows the unit itself. Unfortunately
I didn't take pictures of the unit being taken apart (the filter is
inside).

Hope this helps a little.
Ben

Thanks for the reply, and the pictures which I found on the binaries NG (my email address for NG's is bogus, sorry). Even if I don't try the R&R myself the pictures may come in handy.