you should set down and talk to you dad and see what he mite have in mind but any old hotrod ford mustang camaro vettes you need to know a little bit about working on them your self it help a lot
it want hurt anything bot you can look at the back of it and see what or how its atached thay its not hard to fix it should be a clip or something easy
if im undrestanding you yes diesels do get a fuel filter changed more offen so [a] would be the answer and and yes some if not all diesels have warter separators i have changed fuelfilters on some gas burnners but not any thing like the new stuf but ive never bled air...