|
Hi I have just spent 3 days going all through the poor starting with a friends 2001 1.9 Citroen Berlingo's front jacked up 50cm, to simulate an uphill overnight stay.Sure enough the first morning . the motor fired up briefly and then cut out . Just as reported .
After a bit of enthusiatic priming the motor sprang into life .Leading me to suspect the fuel filter priming pump one way valve .
With the diesel filter removed and the filter bowl drained the lid was replaced the leak down filter lid outlet sealed and both the inlet and outlet connected to clear plastic tubing .
The plan was to take the outlet tube from the top of the filter lid into a clear 5 litre water container.
Then with the larger clear plastic tube to the priming pump inlet connected to my garden hose pistol, The Priming pump was flushed with clean tap water whilst operating the priming plunger . The water collected in the 5litre water container was visually inspected . and then emptied through a filter skim fine mesh .
There was an amount of debri flushed out of the priming pump to support my theory that there was some leakage from the priming pump's one way valve.Which was causing the filter bowl to drain out sufficiently overnight to cause the cutting out after a brief seemingly normal start.
Now after one successful overnight start . Plus a second simulated uphill start, all of this with the fuel gauge showing zero and the fuel warning light glowing brightly.
I am hopeful that my friends distressing uphill starting problems have been laid to rest .
Don't forget to clean out all of the water prior to replacing the filter and refilling with diesel
i hope this helps .
|
