[quote=charmalu;2132753]It`s really not a good idea pouring fuel from, the dirty filter to the clean one. You will notice that there are a row of holes around the top of the filter and one large hole in the center.

Now when you pour the fuel out of the old into the new filter. how do you separate dirty from clean fuel. how do you only pour from the large hole w/o it coming out of the small holes?

Also with that kind of thinking, it would be a good idea to pour oil out of the old oil filter to the new to pre fill it. after all it would be clean coming out of the center hole there also?

Obviously one wouldn't wish to introduce used oil into a fresh oil change, however, the diesel is not going to be circulating in the engine for the next 3000 miles, it will be so much exhaust in a couple miles.
Quite possibly my fuel system is cleaner than what you have experienced.
First filter change I poured the fuel from the filter into a clear plastic container (quart sized) I allowed it it sit for about 15 minutes, then when I examined it, There was no sediment or cloudy/separation issues. I also cut the old filter apart, and the filter element was clean. Clean enough where I could not really tell which way the fuel traveled. Certainly there was so sediment or particles. I guess it just seemed like the cleanest diesel I had available, as it had at least gone through the primary, and getting diesel from my can could be far worse. Using diesel purge or ATF seems like it would just add cost to the filter change. Maybe I'll get that plastic cup out for the next one, now that I am imagining all the bad things that could happen.

x2 on cracking one injector at a time. I tried doing all four on my machine once, and it didn't work at all after MANY cranks, tried one at a time and was done in 10 minutes