Happy new year!
It's not quite so happy for my 1987 HJ60 with the 2H diesel.
Last night I was driving home and it was around eight degrees F. The rig started up fine, and idled for a few minutes. After I got on the road, it started losing power and acting like it was starving for fuel. It wouldn't stay running and definitely could not get me home, so I parked it on the side of the road and got a friend to come help me out. We tried anti-gel first, but it didn't help, so he gave me a ride home. I thought it was the fuel gelling, but the plot thickens.
This morning I drove to the Cruiser with another car and tried to start it, since it had warmed up to a nice twenty degrees F. No dice. I had it towed to my friend's heated shop that was nearby.
We charged the batteries and pulled the fuel filter. It had some water and a bunch of brown gunk in it! I'll be able to pick up another filter for it tomorrow. We did try cleaning out the old filter with fresh diesel in the interest of getting it home, but couldn't get any fuel to come out with the bleeder loose and the priming the pump a couple hundred times or so. It just feels like the hand primer pump is moving air and nothing else. I took the screw out of the bottom of the fuel/water separator, but only a few drops of brown crap came out...
Is there somewhere else to look for plugged fuel flow, or some other secret to priming it? Does this thing even have a lift pump or a pump in the fuel tank to look at? I could really use some wisdom from you nice folks here.
Thanks!
Phil
It's not quite so happy for my 1987 HJ60 with the 2H diesel.
Last night I was driving home and it was around eight degrees F. The rig started up fine, and idled for a few minutes. After I got on the road, it started losing power and acting like it was starving for fuel. It wouldn't stay running and definitely could not get me home, so I parked it on the side of the road and got a friend to come help me out. We tried anti-gel first, but it didn't help, so he gave me a ride home. I thought it was the fuel gelling, but the plot thickens.
This morning I drove to the Cruiser with another car and tried to start it, since it had warmed up to a nice twenty degrees F. No dice. I had it towed to my friend's heated shop that was nearby.
We charged the batteries and pulled the fuel filter. It had some water and a bunch of brown gunk in it! I'll be able to pick up another filter for it tomorrow. We did try cleaning out the old filter with fresh diesel in the interest of getting it home, but couldn't get any fuel to come out with the bleeder loose and the priming the pump a couple hundred times or so. It just feels like the hand primer pump is moving air and nothing else. I took the screw out of the bottom of the fuel/water separator, but only a few drops of brown crap came out...
Is there somewhere else to look for plugged fuel flow, or some other secret to priming it? Does this thing even have a lift pump or a pump in the fuel tank to look at? I could really use some wisdom from you nice folks here.
Thanks!
Phil