Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 at 16:04
Just a word of caution, if you are going to bleed a common rail diesel, that is any diesel post mid 2007, be very carefull. The pressure in the line going to the injector can be deadly. Not talking from experience but have been told by enough people not to contemplate cracking a injector line on a common rail motor. They work on pressures that are approx 6 times higher than the diesels of old and have been told it has the pressure to slice a finger off or inject diesel into the flesh.
Regards the problem of hard to start, i have a landcruiser and was told not to put an additional filter of less than 30 micron on as it will restrict
fuel flowing thru the pump and therefore cooling of the pump. May be a problem in not being able to pass enough
fuel, try bypassing the new filter and see if that eliminates the problem
I was interested in trying to eliminate
water and chunky bits getting thru to the main
fuel filter. To date have on two occasions found droplets of
water in the glass inspection bowl.
Den
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