With the reversed polarity on my Walmart "never start" battery finally solved - at least the reason the starter wouldn't engage - I'm now ready to start the engine and back it out of the garage! RIGHT? NOPE!
Cranking for the first 10 seconds, no start! At oat of 60* So now energize the glo plugs. Then crank for another 20 seconds. Not starting! WTF now? Fuel gage indicates 1/2 tank but electric gages sometimes lie. There is a fuel filter/water catcher down on the right side of the engine. Plastic and stuck pretty tight. Big channel locks on the very top, where the lugs are, finally got it to loosen. Catch bowl under the filter showed WATER! Empty out the filter and almost full of water. Shook out the filter upside down dumps crud and more water. There is a little tab in the filter housing that opens the fuel line from the tank through that filter to the fuel pump then on to the injector pump. It's messy but about a half cup of water from the tank into my catch bowl. The only reason I can explain the water in the system is to have poured in some contaminated fuel from a can that had some in it.
Now to chase the water out of any lines to the injector pump, I took all those lines loose and there was water all the way to the injector fitting from the little engine mounted fuel pump. I blew through the line from the filter body and water came out of the little engine mounted fuel pump! That's where I had to quit to search here for further procedure. Am I going to have to go all the way to the injectors to eliminate any water that may have migrated to the injectors themselves? The dread I'm facing is having to get all the water out then bleed all the air out of the injection system!
Cranking for the first 10 seconds, no start! At oat of 60* So now energize the glo plugs. Then crank for another 20 seconds. Not starting! WTF now? Fuel gage indicates 1/2 tank but electric gages sometimes lie. There is a fuel filter/water catcher down on the right side of the engine. Plastic and stuck pretty tight. Big channel locks on the very top, where the lugs are, finally got it to loosen. Catch bowl under the filter showed WATER! Empty out the filter and almost full of water. Shook out the filter upside down dumps crud and more water. There is a little tab in the filter housing that opens the fuel line from the tank through that filter to the fuel pump then on to the injector pump. It's messy but about a half cup of water from the tank into my catch bowl. The only reason I can explain the water in the system is to have poured in some contaminated fuel from a can that had some in it.
Now to chase the water out of any lines to the injector pump, I took all those lines loose and there was water all the way to the injector fitting from the little engine mounted fuel pump. I blew through the line from the filter body and water came out of the little engine mounted fuel pump! That's where I had to quit to search here for further procedure. Am I going to have to go all the way to the injectors to eliminate any water that may have migrated to the injectors themselves? The dread I'm facing is having to get all the water out then bleed all the air out of the injection system!
