Evening,
So lately my pump has been leaking veg ever so slightly, but worse than that, absolutely eating fuel filters, like 300 miles on good filtered veg. My theory here is that the pump was leaking fuel, but when filters got blocked it sucked air = nothing.
So was fiddling about on sat and found the pump to be leaking from the governor shaft, so pulled pump off, head off, shaft out, new o-ring and built all up again. Now I marked the correct place for the shaft so that seems right, but something doesn't seem to be.
On start up the best way to describe it is just plain rough, just sounds wrong in some way, then theres a knocking noise out of the pump itself I think. I pulled the lid off the pump and set it on again but still the same. Driving wise the car is way down on power, can be driven easy but if you rev it hard then lift off and clutch the engine just dies.
Drove 30 odd mile with it fine, but then just cut out on me. On inspection the primer bulb was sucked in so I looked to the tank strainer, this was grand, but there was a wee connector/one way valve which was blocked. Fixing this and I've still the same problems, this wee rattle, lack of power, and cutting out after any hard reving.
So anyone any suggestions, could I have buggered the vane pump if the pump had run dry?
Sorry for such a long post btw and congratulations to anyone that has got this far!!
So lately my pump has been leaking veg ever so slightly, but worse than that, absolutely eating fuel filters, like 300 miles on good filtered veg. My theory here is that the pump was leaking fuel, but when filters got blocked it sucked air = nothing.
So was fiddling about on sat and found the pump to be leaking from the governor shaft, so pulled pump off, head off, shaft out, new o-ring and built all up again. Now I marked the correct place for the shaft so that seems right, but something doesn't seem to be.
On start up the best way to describe it is just plain rough, just sounds wrong in some way, then theres a knocking noise out of the pump itself I think. I pulled the lid off the pump and set it on again but still the same. Driving wise the car is way down on power, can be driven easy but if you rev it hard then lift off and clutch the engine just dies.
Drove 30 odd mile with it fine, but then just cut out on me. On inspection the primer bulb was sucked in so I looked to the tank strainer, this was grand, but there was a wee connector/one way valve which was blocked. Fixing this and I've still the same problems, this wee rattle, lack of power, and cutting out after any hard reving.
So anyone any suggestions, could I have buggered the vane pump if the pump had run dry?
Sorry for such a long post btw and congratulations to anyone that has got this far!!
Gov modded 11mm Bosch + Standard turbo = 137.2bhp . . . . TD04 now in...time to get playing!