Where Is The Fuel Filter On A 2007 Subaru Legacy

two.5i fuel filter location

Asked by Guru5YTQ9 January 02, 2018 at 09:34 AM nigh the 2011 Subaru Legacy 2.5i

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Are fuel filter for 2.5i legacy in tank, in
line, or both?

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Tank.

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Scott answered 3 years agone

Exterior of tank under rear seat in older models. In tank and no need to supersede on newer models

in tank but when dingy might requite you starting problems. changing it regularly is adept.

I've NEVER seen an in-tank Subaru fuel filter get sufficiently "dirty" to inhibit starting nor fuel period. Do NOT change it! Information technology'due south non like an air filter where volume of flow affects running. Sheesh.

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TheSubaruGuruBoston, y'all're not exactly correct there. Just because you lot haven't seen it personally that does not eliminate information technology equally a possible issue. Besides, in that location is or should be goose egg divergence between how dirty an in tank filter or downstream (out of tank) filter gets. The cleanliness of either is dependent on tank cleanliness (changes with age), fuel line cleanliness and fuel quality/age (if the vehicle has sat for a long time). Subaru went to an in tank and somewhat non serviceable fuel filter on the mid 2000 models. Where your incorrect is that the filter media can and does eventually plug up plenty that it greatly furnishings the volume of flow. Reason being is that many of the ones that practise plug up, cause the two slice filter canister/housing to overpressure and spit out the o-ring seal. This directly effects the fuel book and pressure equally information technology'south generally being pissed back into the tank instead of downstream to the engine. This is a well known issue, at least for any of the turbo models. I've had information technology happen on my 07 Forester XT while mid broad open throttle. Dropped the fuel pressure down to fourteen.5psi at the engine and I tin tell you the filter media was quite plugged.

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Indeed I stand corrected! Just since I've NEVER bought nor serviced a turbo Subie I've bever witnessed, nor even heard of, this miracle. Some other reason to avoid the turbo, eh?

My Subaru was very ho-hum to get-go yesterday evening. Mind you it was -41c with wind chill if information technology had been a Chevy Silverado I would have suspected frozen moisture in the fuel line. Same affair happens to almost all makes of mechanism. When I come up to cheque this I find the filter is inside the tank on a Tribeca they say. Just what this has to do with the turbo a can't quite effigy. I've been operating Turbo machines for at least twoscore years. I just can't fifty-fifty imagine what a turbo has to do with a fuel filter. Bio Diesel Now there is a subject when connected with cold weather, Moisture in fuel is more of a problem where fuel is stored in above ground tanks,

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