JStrider

93 ford explorer
4.0l v6 engine
4 wheel drive

ok anyways took it to the shop for the state inspection and an oil change...
he showed me some stuff and had some recomendations...

he pulled out the airfilter showed me how it was all brown and full of the lubbock dust... ok i can understand that needing changing...

he said if i didnt know when the last time the fuel filter was changed i should change it just cuz of the cars mileage...

then he pulled the plastic tube away from the top of the engine and stuck his fingers thru the butterfly valve there and they came out all black and he said there was all kinds of carbon built up there and that they had some 3 chemical system that could clean the fuel system right up... i think that was $40...

so my main question was about doing the fuel system cleaning thing... can i do that myself with a bottle of the fuel injector cleaner from walmart... or is their system worth the $40


and for the fuel filter... i looked in the chiltons guide and it seemed like somethin i could do myself... lemme know if this sounds right..
1 trip the inertia fuel pump shutoff switch
2 let car run till it stops
3 pull the lil pin things holding the fuel filter in place
4 disconnect old fuel filter
5 reconnect new filter make sure arrow is pointing the same way as on the old one
6 put in new pin things to hold the filter in place
7 reset inerita switch
Done...
does that sound right?

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