fuel heater

[cumminspuller98]

can you take the fuel heater off? the seal is leaking and rather than replace the seal i wanted to take it off.......

[Tacoclaw]

http://www.1stgen.org/viewtopic.php?t=3373

[ZSkibo]

Got tired of the leaking heater and knowing there were two electronic "thingies" on my truck that I could care less about. You want Cummins p/n 3925954 as listed in the link above. It's just a shorter stud that threads into the filter head. Use a large flat blade screwdriver to remove the stock stud. Remove the heater plate and water sensor. Thread the new stud on, filter on, prime, and go! Easy and no more leaks or fighting the stupid water sensor when you change your filter. Oh, and the filter is FS1221 which doesn't have the water sensor port in the bottom.

[Broncobilly72]

Thanks for the replies all, as well as the heater delete spud part #! I live in NE IL, where it can get fairly cold in the winter. Will I be ok just using an anti-gelling agent (which I do), without the fuel filter heater? Any of you tundra folks have any trouble in the winter, without the fuel heater?

[Remps]

I ran my 90 two winters without a fuel heater, never had any issues. As cold as -40 Celsius. I always run Power Service white in the winter, around 300-1 ratio, though I'm sure there are other anti gel additives out there.

[PToombs]

I've run my '97 2 winters now with no heater, no problems. On TDR there are several guys in alaska that remove the heaters immediately when they get a truck. They don't want to be stranded in the bush when the heater fails.