Agree on bleeding not necessary. What you did was to clean out some crud and it wound up in your filter. I have had half a dozen Ford diesels over the years and on some, you had a filter clog every 6 months; others they never clogged. Just be sure and bleed the filter after installation from the top plug till clean diesel flows and you don't have to bleed anything else.....before you start it up. Depending on the pump, there is a pump bleed plug and of course cracking the fuel nut at the injector while cranking is how you bleed them, if that should become necessary. On the one(s) that liked filters it was easy to tell when they wanted a new one. The power would immediately fall off and the engine wouldn't respond to any throttle, but would idle ok. Seems like when they clogged, the final amount, it was within a matter of minutes. I had an old 18 wheeler once that had been sitting for awhile. It would run fine till the filter clogged then it would just crap out. So I'd pull over to the side of the road, change the filter, crank her back up and away I'd go. I went through a case of filters before I got the system cleaned out. Mark
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