Help Needed - Possible Knackered Fuel Pump?

[arcascomp]

a good blow and clean needed as its sticky

Childish I know, but it made me giggle! :naughty:lol

 

[AlexD333]

Beer and popcorn still ready :augie

:lol

I chose the clean joke eh

 

[Bigbunny2007]

Them swirl pots can easily get blocked as they are quite restrictive! No reason to cause probs if they keep clear!! Even running just diesel they will block, tanks rot and rust drops down and causes a blockage!! When i cleaned mine out i had red flakes of paint in the swirl pot!! Glad you got sorted.

 

[Banshee]

Them swirl pots can easily get blocked as they are quite restrictive! No reason to cause probs if they keep clear!! Even running just diesel they will block, tanks rot and rust drops down and causes a blockage!! When i cleaned mine out i had red flakes of paint in the swirl pot!! Glad you got sorted.

Many thanks buddy me too!!!! You can certainly feel the difference now under acceleration, it absolutely flies like a train :sly

Gave it a blast down the motorway as I've been limping everywhere at 50mph at best anymore than that and the engine juddered and I'd fill the motorway with smoke. :doh

All I need to do now is find some stronger bolts to re-secure the sender unit as it is only being held by 2 of 6 bolts as the rest that were removed were too far gone and damaged to be re-used

Anyone have any ideas of what I should be using? I want something with a stronger head that wont round next time I come to remove them (touch wood I don't have to)

They will also get a nice smear of grease to prevent them seizing up again

 

[Banshee]

Just as I'd packed everything up on my drive a mate came past and we got talking and I told him what I'd been up to.

He told me a story that made my situation seem like a joke :lol

Apparently a mate of his had a Disco 300tdi that was having exactly the same symptoms as mine, they tried to do a bit of self diagnostics to figure out what was causing the starvation and hit a brick wall, they had replaced filter, fuel lines etc etc and gave up deciding that they would swap the engine

So one new 300tdi later and they took it for a run to be faced with exactly the same issues :doh

It was for some strange reason that it was this point they decided to access the tank, and to their horror they discovered an empty Warburtons bread wrapper washing around in the bottom of the tank :lol

One phone call later and the mystery was solved, upon asking the previous owner if he had any ideas as to how the wrapper got in there he replied "I lost the filler cap about 6 months ago and to stop stuff dropping in the tank I stuffed a bread wrapper in the hole, I wondered where it had gone"

My mate was pee'd of to say the least :lol

The bag must have been swirling around the bottom of the tank and then eventually catching the pickup pipes causing the blockage

 

[Bigbunny2007]

Haha that's unlucky, and that's second hand motors you just never know their full history!! Them bolts on the tank are M5 iirr stainless might be a good idea.

 

[Banshee]

Haha that's unlucky, and that's second hand motors you just never know their full history!! Them bolts on the tank are M5 iirr stainless might be a good idea.

Purchased :thumb2

Cheers bud