doobie
Active Member
the fun and games never seams to stop with me! i had the sedement bowl off my fuel lift pump the other day and after replacing i bled the diesel system following the procedure in my perkins manual. i found loads of air in the system but kept bleeding it for a while and all seamed good, it ran up well afterwards.........
untill.....i went for a long drive this morning kept losing power when going round roundabouts?! i first thought my gearbox was jamming or something untill at the third last roundabout i lost revs and the engine died! i couldnt start at all so after all the bastards honking their horns ****ed off i pushed it off the road with the help of a passer by. i checked my bleed points as it was pretty clear that there was no fuel gettin to the engine and found the govener gassed up again, i didn't have a big enough spanner to crack the injector pipes (school boy error!) but after sitting for about 20mins or so and some amount of cranking the lump fired up with a cloud of white smoke. it started with really slow rev's ( sounded like a steam train pulling away, like "chuff......chuff....chuff..chuff till it speeded up to normal rev's)
it died twice on the way home again, once on a roundabout again and then when i turned off the main road. still found wee bubbles of air but nothing much. when i was bleeding it i was getting clear streams of diesel and i couldn't see any leaks. i checked the sediment bowl seal when i put it on as i had some greif with the one on my petrol engine. but surly if there was a leak in the system it would be the diesel coming out as its at pressure???
anyone have any idea how i can stop this happening again? missed my offshore survival course cos of the bastard lump breakin down! think i'l take a taxi next time
untill.....i went for a long drive this morning kept losing power when going round roundabouts?! i first thought my gearbox was jamming or something untill at the third last roundabout i lost revs and the engine died! i couldnt start at all so after all the bastards honking their horns ****ed off i pushed it off the road with the help of a passer by. i checked my bleed points as it was pretty clear that there was no fuel gettin to the engine and found the govener gassed up again, i didn't have a big enough spanner to crack the injector pipes (school boy error!) but after sitting for about 20mins or so and some amount of cranking the lump fired up with a cloud of white smoke. it started with really slow rev's ( sounded like a steam train pulling away, like "chuff......chuff....chuff..chuff till it speeded up to normal rev's)
it died twice on the way home again, once on a roundabout again and then when i turned off the main road. still found wee bubbles of air but nothing much. when i was bleeding it i was getting clear streams of diesel and i couldn't see any leaks. i checked the sediment bowl seal when i put it on as i had some greif with the one on my petrol engine. but surly if there was a leak in the system it would be the diesel coming out as its at pressure???
anyone have any idea how i can stop this happening again? missed my offshore survival course cos of the bastard lump breakin down! think i'l take a taxi next time