I attached a short length of hose and a long length of pipe to a priming bulb.

Short length to filter output (light blue box) and longer piece down to a bowl/collection vessel.

Pumped bulb until diesel flowed without bubbles.
Removed bulb hose.
Re-attached the output hose to filter.
Started first time. Was a bit hesitant but soon picked up.

PS - Attach rear pipe (above light blue box) not attached in my picture before priming.

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This popped up on Facebook this morning, not a bad price

https://dannys-prime-solutions.myshopify.com/collections/all

Cheers

Martin

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I use a vacuum pump on A that way you are drawing all air out never had a problem

Hi

Since I made the last post have found out the purpose for the 4 pipes. I filled up the filter via orifice A, pipe A still had fuel in it, and she started okay just hope she keeps running okay.

Bogart wrote:

Am asking as it says to prime the filter so which hole do I put in diesel. Not got any diesel so will use ATF.

I'm going to do mine at the weekend and I reckon Denboy's method is the most logical to me, Vacuum pump on return to tank pipe fitting (A) will draw diesel through the filter and fuel rail. Saves clarting about with a bucket full of fuel. I'm going to use the vacuum system I bought years ago that is used to draw oil up through the dipstick pipe on an oil change, but never used it. I'm sure you have to remove the filler cap before you bleed the system as well.

Thinking of having a go... Powerful UK video here (on an earlier car) that shows the job from start to finish but...

The new filter is primed simply by allowing the fuel pump to fill it before starting the engine... seems to work but of course, it is just previously filtered fuel already upstream of the filter. After a few moments of engine running it stops - the second video shows how they get it running again.

An easy job made difficult by not priming the new filter...

The Powerful UK video shows how NOT to replace the fuel filter, and definitely how NOT bleed out any air. I couldn't believe those fools actually cracked an injector pipe and cranked the engine over. With the sort of pressures involved with a common rail system, this sort of thing is just stupid, and shows a complete lack of understanding for the vehicle they were working on.  Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ultimate. The family car.
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What I do is simply drown the new filter in a container of clean diesel till the bubbles stop & connect up. Works every time.

But an additional job to clean the filter's exterior after, otherwise what a smell...

Nodge68 wrote:

The Powerful UK video shows how NOT to replace the fuel filter, and definitely how NOT bleed out any air. I couldn't believe those fools actually cracked an injector pipe and cranked the engine over. With the sort of pressures involved with a common rail system, this sort of thing is just stupid, and shows a complete lack of understanding for the vehicle they were working on.

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I always use this cheap tool to prime the filter before starting the car, connected to port A.
Works really well, never had a problem with it.