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Fuel issues, UPDATE

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Tommo:
last year i put a bit of veg oil in the tank as you do, did about 60 miles then it started getting fuel starved, would tick over just about but if you rev it then it dies. blew out fuel line (after changing filter of course) and it was ok for maybe 10 miles, blew it out again and ok for maybe 5 miles. emptyed tank and put pump diesel in, blew fuel line out, still conks out after a few miles. eventually i figured the tank must be full of crap so i took it out and swilled it all out, put it back in blew all fuel lines out filled it with pump diesel and it was ok for ages. ran the odd bit of bio diesel and it was fine, filled up with bio the other day and 100 miles later its doing the same thing!!! exact same symptoms and everything, wont even run on pump diesel.

Lift pump was new last year (britpart though)

So im  not sure what to think. maybe the britpart lift pump isnt strong enough to pull the bio from the tank sometimes, but then why isnt it fine on normal diesel after???

If you take the return pipe off it comes out but not right much and all frothy as if air has got in. so i thought maybe air was getting in with more suction needed for the bio it caused air to be sucked in somewhere but its all plastic pipe so i dont know how.

And why did cleaning the tank out last time cure it? i dont want to have to do it again it was a right ball ache to get off.

Anyone got any ideas???

Range Rover Blues:
200TDi, the sedimenter could be full of what looks like cat sick TBH, 300 I don't know if it has one :?

Tommo:
not got a sedimenter im afraid.

i cant believe the moment it stops working is the moment it starts snowing! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

jimthelandyman:

--- Quote from: Tommo on March 22, 2008, 08:40:10 ---not got a sedimenter im afraid.

i cant believe the moment it stops working is the moment it starts snowing! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

--- End quote ---

Tell me about it my handbrake just collapsed and set on fire, snowing outside.

Tommo:
right im gonna set fire to it now. replaced the pipe, seemed ok till the top of the road and then same again!!!!

To be honest its so unreliable it would probably only burn for a few seconds then conk out.

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