Please Help! No Fuel & No Start

[toddlnrd]

I just changed out the fuel filter, like I have a half a dozen times before. I cannot get the fuel to come out of the bleeder on the fuel filter. Truck will not start.

I don't understand and it is getting late and I am stuck at the in-laws house.

Please give me some suggestions to try!!

Todd

 

[JiFaire]

Answered this in PM, but it needs to be posted in the open, too...

Gotta be air, Todd. Did you:

a] make sure the filter housing was seated properly? It's easy to get it in there a little off the base, or get dirt on the lip so it leaks. Oh, and you might not see the leak, it may just be air in, not fuel out.

b] bleed the housing - jumper the lift pump, open the bleed screw on top the filter housing and pump out the air. Oh - and is your Lift Pump working? Not just making noise, but actually pumping fuel?

There are others... snotty sock, suddenly dead PMD, dead IP, 8 simultaneously-plugged injectors, etc, but I'd stick with the simple stuff to start with

 

[toddlnrd]

The reason I changed the filter to begin with is I had a small hesitation at light throttle. I thought the filter has not been replaced in a while so that must be it.

Not sure how to check the lift pump. It is making noise like it always has in the past.

Todd

 

[toddlnrd]

Update

Just spent $100 for new LP.

Installed and truck started and runs great. Bled new filter properly and all seems well.

Wife likes the new diesel cologne . Even after shower.

Thanks Jifaire for your suggestions.

Todd

 

[toddlnrd]

Next time I will get the Heath Heavy Duty LP!!!

2nd LP in less than 2 years.

 

[Turbine Doc]

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Not sure how to check the lift pump. It is making noise like it always has in the past.

Todd

Check this post next time http://dieseltowingresource.com/showthread.php?t=6872 if you are eating lifts I suspect grit in the tank and maybe worth investing in a racor pre-lift filter.

 

[docdray]

got heath in mine, very different from stock lp. solid fuel delivery. BTW- make sure fuel cap is not drawing vaccum