From: Bill & Bonnie Prestin (bprestin@chartermi.net)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 18:16:11 PDT
Have you checked your fuel tank vents. Could you be forming a vacuum in the
tank.
Bill
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Subject: Re: [MV] A challenging problem
> M35a2 turbo multi-fuel:
>
> Here is what I have going on:
>
> If I disconnect the fuel line at the top of the fuel
> tank and then I go an open the petcock at the fuel
> filters on the engine and then I give it a very short
> blast some air into the main line... messy, but a rag
> contains most of it... then put it all back together
> after bleeding out any ambient air at the filters...
> the dang truck fires right up! Vrrooom, no problems!
>
> It's my opinion that somehow air must leaking into the
> system and be forming an embolism or that it doesn't
> pull fuel under enough pressure to start it.
>
> Once it's running I don't see any problems.
>
> Even after I shut it off for a few hours it fires back
> up, but let it sit longer and I have this start and
> die...start and die thing going on.
>
> I have done the following:
>
> 1. Changed fuel filters - it was doing the start and
> die thing before filter change.
>
> 2. Inspected lines, tank and all seem clean and fine.
>
> 3. Pulled the tank filter it looks clean, even back
> pressured some air thru the main line to see if
> anything was stuck in there.
>
> 4. Loosened an injector and got fuel seepage with
> accessory switch on... haven't checked it for flow
> volume yet.
>
> 5. Checked the fuse and connection on the top of the
> tank.
>
> So anyone got any ideas? I'm sure willing to listen,
> got to be a real simple thing I am missing here.
>
> Thanks in advance you guys are great, been super
> helpful to me in getting this beast going.
>
> Jack (Chico-Ca)
>
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