Ok first up ...
A local recycle place started selling recycled cooking oil which is filtered to 5 micron. So for about 2 months now I have been using that at a 50/50 mix with diesel. After about 2 weeks the car went a little sluggish so I changed the fuel filter and it was back to 100%. Apparently this is to be expected as the veg oil drags crud from the lining of the tank. It's ran superb since then.
Today I am going to Warrington ( about 40 mins away up the M6 ). We drive there no probs and the landy drives lovely with the usual 50/50 mix. We are then at our friend's house at Warrington for about 2 hours. We set back at 2pm. We get about 5 mins from their house and are on the M62 heading for the M6 and it starts lacking power. I'm thinking it may be time to swap the fuel filter. So we limp off the M6 and I pull over on a quiet lane.
I swap the fuel filter. I then try to prime the fuel filter by unlocking the pin at the top and I start pumping the lift pump lever. Usually after a minute or so pumping there is fuel pouring out of the top pin ... but I'm pumping for ages and no fuel at the top. I unscrew the filter and look inside and there's about 1/4 fuel in. More pumping. No difference. I try cranking the car. The car starts but will only tick over and won't rev. I unscrew filter again and still 1/4 full. My friend comes to me and we go and get a can of diesel.
We take off fuel filter and fill to the top with diesel. With the filter off we try the manual pump lever. Fuel is squirting out of the inlet pipe to the filter ( not sure whether it is as strong as it normally would be ). We refit full filter. We undo top pin and try pump lever and after a couple of pumps fuel is now coming out of top pin. So top pin tightened. I start car. Car starts fine and will now rev. I rev car for half a minute or so and all seems well ... and then it goes back to just tickover.
It now goes dark and it's getting colder. Friends car said 5 degrees.
I then decide to check sediment filter. I undo the screw underneath and just a trickle of water runs out then nothing. Should fuel be flooding out here?
We try start car again and it starts but just ticks over. Then it finally starts to splutter and then dies. There's still 20 litres of 50/50 diesel veg oil in tank. Now won't start until battery dies.
At this point we abandoned ship as it was pitch black and cold. My friend drives us back to Stoke. So the Landy is now stuck just off the M6 near Warrington. I'm in Stoke.
So tomorrow I have to try and get there and try and get it going and get it home.
So ...
What do you think? ~Is it likely to be anything to do with the veggie oil? Or is it a lift pump problem? Or sedimentor blocked? Or what?
With fuel filled in the filter it started and ran perfectly for a while so I'm thinking everything from the fuel filter onwards is ok ( injector pump etc ).
A local recycle place started selling recycled cooking oil which is filtered to 5 micron. So for about 2 months now I have been using that at a 50/50 mix with diesel. After about 2 weeks the car went a little sluggish so I changed the fuel filter and it was back to 100%. Apparently this is to be expected as the veg oil drags crud from the lining of the tank. It's ran superb since then.
Today I am going to Warrington ( about 40 mins away up the M6 ). We drive there no probs and the landy drives lovely with the usual 50/50 mix. We are then at our friend's house at Warrington for about 2 hours. We set back at 2pm. We get about 5 mins from their house and are on the M62 heading for the M6 and it starts lacking power. I'm thinking it may be time to swap the fuel filter. So we limp off the M6 and I pull over on a quiet lane.
I swap the fuel filter. I then try to prime the fuel filter by unlocking the pin at the top and I start pumping the lift pump lever. Usually after a minute or so pumping there is fuel pouring out of the top pin ... but I'm pumping for ages and no fuel at the top. I unscrew the filter and look inside and there's about 1/4 fuel in. More pumping. No difference. I try cranking the car. The car starts but will only tick over and won't rev. I unscrew filter again and still 1/4 full. My friend comes to me and we go and get a can of diesel.
We take off fuel filter and fill to the top with diesel. With the filter off we try the manual pump lever. Fuel is squirting out of the inlet pipe to the filter ( not sure whether it is as strong as it normally would be ). We refit full filter. We undo top pin and try pump lever and after a couple of pumps fuel is now coming out of top pin. So top pin tightened. I start car. Car starts fine and will now rev. I rev car for half a minute or so and all seems well ... and then it goes back to just tickover.
It now goes dark and it's getting colder. Friends car said 5 degrees.
I then decide to check sediment filter. I undo the screw underneath and just a trickle of water runs out then nothing. Should fuel be flooding out here?
We try start car again and it starts but just ticks over. Then it finally starts to splutter and then dies. There's still 20 litres of 50/50 diesel veg oil in tank. Now won't start until battery dies.
At this point we abandoned ship as it was pitch black and cold. My friend drives us back to Stoke. So the Landy is now stuck just off the M6 near Warrington. I'm in Stoke.
So tomorrow I have to try and get there and try and get it going and get it home.
So ...
What do you think? ~Is it likely to be anything to do with the veggie oil? Or is it a lift pump problem? Or sedimentor blocked? Or what?
With fuel filled in the filter it started and ran perfectly for a while so I'm thinking everything from the fuel filter onwards is ok ( injector pump etc ).
