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fuel problems
Well I finally got some time away from the son's new home project to tinker with my toy.
I flushed the tank with water about 10 times and used the shop vac to suck out the dirty water the last four times while letting any remaining solids flow to one corner uner the filler neck...
fuel contamination
Guys and gals,
The rust is not actually that bad. All that stuff on the bottom of the pump washed off with hot water adn rust would not do that.
I'm puzzled by the content of the material in the tank but there is very little actual rust. The rough appearance is similar to...
dirty fuel system
The saga continues.
Is this too much solid fuel for the injection pump (See pic #1)?
HA HA
I took the tank off tonight and gave it a preliminary wash and boy did some crude wash out.
Other pics show the findings before the initial wash.
The pump cover (bottom) did not...
fuel problems
Thank you so much for the valuable information guys & gals.
I really really appreciate the help.
Is the bottom of the in-tank pump held in place with clips or friction or perhaps origianlly bonded on with adhesive or solder?
While I'm in there fixing the possible pump coming aprat...
my truck is home
Well I had to wait until 23:00 to go get her. My helper (#3 son) was not back until then.
I started her up and idled for about 5 minutes for warm up. Start was normal and idle was normal.
I drove through town followed by my safety net behind me in the M1009.
No speeds above 40...
reply to questions
I have about 15 gallons of fuel in the tank as we speak.
I'll pull the filters again but they were changed about 300 miles or so back (8 months) so I would think that they should be o.k. especially since I'm putting ultra clean fuel in these days.
I'm open for suggestions and...
I know that I'm going to get Flamed for this because I'm appealing for some quick information from the-more-wise than-me operators of the Deuce multifuel engines.
I was driving into town today and I noticed several delayed excellerations.
When I pushed down for more throttle on the gas pedal it...
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