Diesel fuel is not easily available at this point but I have plenty of white bottle Powerservice. She sputtered then died so I'm gona try a fuel filter

 

I've done it many times before during a filter change with no probs...

 

More info please.

 

Yea fill it up with power service. then run it hard to work it into the fuel system and "clear it out"

 

Actually it was on a 4bt in an 8042 Skytrak. We where pressed for time earlier today and I wanted to make sure before I went thru with it and screwed up the bosses machine.

It ran fine for the 2-3 hours we used it previously and as I pulled up to the truck I was unloading it started sputering like it was running out of fuel then died.

We replaced the inline filter before the lift pump and the main filter,filled it with Powerservice,cracked 2 of the 4 lines we could get to with the limited tools we had and had plenty of fuel but it would not fire.

I don't know what it has for an injector pump(pretty new machine) but I'm guessing electronic by the wires connected to it.

On a side note, we where working in a military facility and the machine quit in the middle of the road withthe boom 18-20 feet in the air. My boss, the owner, kept it running with ether as I drove off to the side out of the way. I know,you guys are thinking the same thing as me, but its his machine and his money.. he wasn't happy about it but at 5 o clock on Friday in a military facility, we couldn't leave it there til Monday

 

It'll run like crap for a while, then clear up. We filled the housing on a 02 7.3 w/ 911 PS once. It sure didn't like it.

 

Doesn't the lift pump have a priming lever or plunger?

Is there a chance an emergency shut off got tripped?

Had several ace mechanics trying to start a forklift for several hours, said it just died, after questioning him he said he just refueled it I smalled the fuel cap and sure enough he filled the diesel forklift with gasoline, after refilling the tank with diesel this time it started right up.

 

We have had a few of those incidents in the last couple months.

I've been working for these guys for 5 months and there's been a 6.0 Ford that had gas put in it and 1 of the Skytraks. The Skytrak incident was done by 1 of their shop rats and he is going to school to be a mechanic

The 6.0 Ford incident cost $1300 at the Ford *********** plus the $1800 dollars for 600 feet of welding lead that was stolen off the truck at the gas station it broke down at (it was in Detroit)

Also a VERY competant friend of mine just put 12 gallons of gas in his 01 7.3 about a month ago. He add 3quarts of tranny fluid and topped it off with diesel and took it very easy on it, and stopped every so often to top it back off(couple gallons each time) with no ill affects so far

I used to think ,how could anyone do something so stupid, but since that friend of mine did it,I begining to believe it could happen to me.

 

Isn't PS an additive package, primarily to modify the gel point? I think I'd put tranny fluid, cooking oil, lamp kerosene and a little oil, or something like that in before I'd put in concentrated "solvent like" anything.

There has to be a priming method, either a lever on a mechanical pump, or cycle the start key/switch to cycle the tank lift pump, plus a bleeding screw.

I always pump it full with the mechanical pump, about 100 strokes or so. Only takes a couple of minutes, but it limits the possibility of contaminating post filter fuel.

 

Give it some throttle while starting it and don't try to let it idle until you can hear the engine smooth out. Maybe 50% throttle to start, them 25% to burn through the PS.

 

I like a mix of 2-stroke and Stanadyne performance in the filter at the time I change it. put it on, pump the LP for a minute and light it off.

 

Running a VE pumped B series with diaphragm lift pump on ether to get prime seems to be common everywhere but with the guys on here.

 

I would say diesel fuel is" solvent like" in itself.

This particular machine doesn't have a mechanical throttle linkage, its drive by wire, so who knows if that iisnt part of the problem.

Needless to say we never got it running.

 

This wasn't a VE, and I would have never used ether. The owner did it and it's his machine to do as he pleases I guess.