All I can say is holly god, look how bad that fake filter is made, Look at the over running glue everywhere. The second half of the filter has some super cheap media that looks like thick cardboard and shows it hardly caught anything compared to the closer spaced media. Also see how the glue is oozing out, that can easily make it's way into your engine. Or worse yet the media blow completly out and not be filtering at all. Either way Pacer should pay attention to this filter as it's clearly not a real Fleetguard and could cause damage to someone's engine. (I'm sure they still follow the thread)

A real Fleetguard would have also been stack disk not just a second filter element like OEM, it should look like the Donaldson equivalent.




Good thing you got that off the vehicle it looks like the glue was breaking down and starting to run out of the filter. This is a prime reason you never run a knock off, you never know what the quality is and the quality of that one is piss poor. Your better off with a VIC than a China clone of any filter.


As far as the fuel filter goes, JS filter shows a different cross reference for the 4m41 but then again they could have a error in there database. Kinda hard to cross it stateside because that engine does not exist here.

But when I search the OEM fuel filter number is ME132525 which equals BF7842. maybe it's only for a certain production year. But if that fits then use it. I am not always right but I do my best to research part numbers as hard as possible. But looks like the older 4m41's use the same filter as the 4d56 and 4m40.