Drongo Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 Ran out of fuel last week and did everything I was supposed to to automatically bleed my fuel line and get home again... Thing is now, my fuel pump squeals like mad, like it did when bleeding the system... It did this on me once before, cause it was buggered as the previous owner ran it on laundered fuel and the acid destroyed the seals... Is it buggered again...?? I hope not, cause it's flippen expensive and awkward to replace... Or is there still air in the system or some other problem that is easy to fix...?? Cheers Drongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renny Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 It may be worth changing the fuel filter in case there is some carp causing a restriction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JST Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 from memory on what i have heard once td5 have been run dry once there is a high tendancy for the fuel pump to need replacement. less than ideal. i think the squealing maybe the start of its departure, but for your sake i hope not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyore Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Yep,I'm sorry to say I've heard the same thing.Once its run dry you damage the pump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 No idea about running it out of fuel - but usually if noisy it means they are on the way out. What's "laundered fuel" - anything like laundered money? sounds dodgy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARIF Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 What's "laundered fuel" - anything like laundered money? sounds dodgy! One of two possibilities, really - Here in the UK agricultural diesel is tax-free (very low tax?) and in order to prevent normal people using it, it has a red dye added ('red diesel'). There's a market and an illegal industry in processing this stuff to remove the dye - so that it's less risky to use/much easier to sell to the non-farmer - as chances of getting caught much less if fuel isn't red! So sometimes these processes lead to dodgy fuel, essentially. Running it through cat-litter, was one amateur solution apparently!! So secondly - there's the organised-crime thing of getting proper diesel, and diluting or adulterating it with something much cheaper than diesel - whatever necessary - in order to increase its volume. This is then sold to small petrol station outlets, who can be tempted by this nice source of cheap diesel, which can be sold at normal (extortionate) pump prices. Often when these fuels destroy engines - the connection is hardly ever made, with which fuel station one might have happened to use in the recent past. That's laundered fuel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongo Posted August 16, 2005 Author Share Posted August 16, 2005 The noise stopped last night on the way home... But it started again this morning.... Maybe, it's just like me and doesn't like mornings much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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