Diesel leak. Boohoo.

[Blocky10]

:thumb2Noticed a damp patch on the chassis when I finished work Wednesday smells like diesel, tasted like diesel and yes it was diesel:doh
Purchased 5mtrs of 10mm i/d and 5mtrs of 6mm i/d rubber diesel pipe from a local place that sells everything rubber and 4 stainless jubilees
Tooday I spent most of it on my back rolling about replacing the fuel lines from tank to engine bay. :thumbs

Firstly none of the bolts would come out of the inspection panel in the boot so out came the grinder.
Then went to the front and pulled the pipes off and blew back to the tank with an airline.
Under I went and removed the copper pipe in sections also managing to remove the pipe clips without breaking any :clap
Wound a bolt into the end of each hose and threaded it through the same route as the copper came out. I modified the chassis clips by grinding out the pieces that held the copper pipe and reused then to hold the rubber hoses.
Connections in the engine bay was the hardest part. The 6mm connection is buried deep and drew blood but didn't let it beat me :thumb2
Primed the fuel through and boom! Job done :clap

Also fitted the stronger rear springs while i was at it.

 

[Blocky10]

Why use crosshead machine screws?

 

[Blocky10]

That was the one that drew blood. Little bleeder...

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

How did you bleed fuel through mate?

 

[Blocky10]

Was left with this pile of scrap and a pile of rusty dirty crap!

 

[Blocky10]

Springs fitted :thumb2

 

[Blocky10]

Oh and I managed to remove the rest of the bolts I ground down by getting grips on them through the hole :clap
Replaced them with stainless cap heads:thumb2

 

[Blocky10]

How did you bleed fuel through mate?

There's a hand pumpy thing on top of the filter :thumb2
On mine anyway :nenau

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

How did you bleed fuel through mate?

Oops, I came too soon :doh

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

There's a hand pumpy thing on top of the filter :thumb2
On mine anyway :nenau

Bloody 'ell I bet it took you ages, I was wondering if you'd found another way.

 

[jims-terrano]

Easy way that worked on mine was just start it and don't rev it, just ticked over for ten minutes or so.

 

[Blocky10]

Easy way that worked on mine was just start it and don't rev it, just ticked over for ten minutes or so.

I started it to begin with, it ran for no more than 10 secs and that was it!
Pump, pump and pump some more till it got hard and all good:naughty

 

[jims-terrano]

I started it to begin with, it ran for no more than 10 secs and that was it!
Pump, pump and pump some more till it got hard and all good:naughty

A strong right hand then:lol

 

[Blocky10]

A strong right hand then:lol

Ha Ha. I used my left for a while

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

A good job to get done mate, I was half expecting mine to start leaking when I started using veg oil, two of the leak off pipes on injectors did but rest has been fine. I went to my usual rubber place for some pipe and he threw me out :nenau :sly

 

[Blocky10]

A good job to get done mate, I was half expecting mine to start leaking when I started using veg oil, two of the leak off pipes on injectors did but rest has been fine. I went to my usual rubber place for some pipe and he threw me out :nenau :sly

Wah. Thrown out? The pipe and clips were £60? Nearly passed out.

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

Wah. Thrown out? The pipe and clips were £60? Nearly passed out.

You'd make a good Yorkshire man

 

[Blocky10]

You'd make a good Yorkshire man

I drink Yooooorkshire tea at work:lol

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

I drink Yooooorkshire tea at work:lol

I'll see if I can find some taddy lager or alpine or summat for wales, them sheep won't stand a chance :naughty

 

[Banshee]

Good work Ian, I'm still on the standard set of fuel lines from tank to IP and been running veg for a long while now and they are still going good :thumb2 Caked in Waxoyl too so hopefully wont give up any time soon either :naughty

I've had to replace the leak off pipes as they gave up spectacularly the first week I moved into my new place all over the drive which took an age to shift!!!! :doh