Diesel disaster
11 June 2013 | Rochefort
DavidH
All was going so well...I had fitted a connection to the heating diesel tank so we could get more range for the Canal de Midi, then I ran the engine to check out the system and everything went to rats...The engine stopped and the lift pump would not suck fuel from any of the tanks.
6 hours later, much dismantling of systems, diesel everywhere from a blowback, mouthfuls of the same, ended up removing the tanks and cleaning out the dreaded diesel black lurgy and a disintegrated standpipe. The lift pump was blocked with bits af plastic dust and that had to be stripped to its components and re-assembled, and so on and on and on.
But its all right now...cue for a song.