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Hi all, topped up the antifreeze yesterday in my 05 Scudo (non turbo) and had it on tick over for about ten minutes. Got up this morning to take the kid to football,struck up the van to de ice the screen, everything ok. After about five mins I noticed a fluctuation in revs, not much but it was noticed. Anyway, football cancelled. A couple of hours later I tried the van again. Nothing. Just turning over. At this point I must mention that the fuel gauge is in the red and the van is parked on a slope with the driver side the lower than the passenger side. Could it just be that the fuel level is below the tank outlet. I doubt it though.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Is it an older style diesel engine, with mechanical rotary fuel pump? If so, sounds a bit like it's drawing in air into fuel line.
The older 1.9 xud (PSA) used to have a few areas where air got in, including fuel filter housing. Not familiar with the scudo unit. But a clear fuel line would help to see if there are any bubbles.
The older 1.9 xud (PSA) used to have a few areas where air got in, including fuel filter housing. Not familiar with the scudo unit. But a clear fuel line would help to see if there are any bubbles.
Scudo said:
Understand what you are saying, I'm a heating engineer and had terrible problems with one type of oil fired boiler drawing air in, I'm wondering if last night's extreme cold could have played a part. Expansion and contraction, heat and cold .
No it's running out of fuel that does it. If it was because it was cold last night then no-one would be going anywhere at all today.Try hitting Google with 'Scudo bleed diesel' etc and see what it throws up. Often modern diesels have a manual hand pump in the engine bay somewhere to prime them when it's been run dry (If that is the issue).
If it's common rail type, they'll self bleed. Older type, without a "hand grenade' manual pump in engine bay/or lift pump (for which you can prime whilst cracking open a fuel line to expel air)... Then you'll need to crack the Injector lines and crank until diesel squirts through (reiterating, older style diesel with rotary style fuel pump, not common rail!).
n0v0s said:
If it's common rail type, they'll self bleed. Older type, without a "hand grenade' manual pump in engine bay/or lift pump (for which you can prime whilst cracking open a fuel line to expel air)... Then you'll need to crack the Injector lines and crank until diesel squirts through (reiterating, older style diesel with rotary style fuel pump, not common rail!).
That isn't true either.227bhp said:
That isn't true either.
Well done you for making several, irritating posts and only one helpful one. Presumably you are denying that common rails are self bleeding (noticed how you didn't specify and thus give your esteemed, correct input...)
Common rails without a lift pump/secondary low pressure pump, probably do have some sort of mechanic plunger to help this.
Those with lift pumps like on my BMW... Self bleed. I've changed the fuel rail, hpfp and injectors. Cranked up for 20-30seconds and fired up without any special bleeding procedure.
Any way, glad to hear all fixed, Scudo ??
n0v0s said:
227bhp said:
That isn't true either.
Well done you for making several, irritating posts and only one helpful one. Presumably you are denying that common rails are self bleeding (noticed how you didn't specify and thus give your esteemed, correct input...)
Common rails without a lift pump, probably do have some sort of mechanic plunger to help this.
Those with lift pumps like on my BMW... Self bleed. I've changed the fuel rail, hpfp and injectors. Cranked up for 20-30seconds and fired up without any special bleeding procedure.
aaaaaalriiiiighty then. Good job 227.Gassing Station | Home Mechanics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff