Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: 300SD starting problem after sitting 2 hrs

 

On 8/17/2011 8:09 AM, kc8sil wrote:

 


If you have been priming it like a teenage boy in the head with a girly magazine the priming pump may have a crack in it. The one on my old 83' TD was plastic and had a hairline crack in it that I couldn't see, and went out on me shortly after changing out the fuel filters. Also when priming keep it up until you get a steady flow of fuel from it, I had a tendancy to not prime it long enough to get all the air out of the line.

John KC8SIL
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jcgiv@...> wrote:
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> My 300 sd won't start until I pump the prime pump several times after it's been sitting for a while. If the car is full of fuel it will start even left overnight. Once it goes down a couple of gallons it needs to be primed to start if it's off for a couple hours.... Any ideas ??
> thks
> JC
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I always fill the new filter with fuel before installing it.  That saves a lot of priming.  The car will usually restart without any priming.

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