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Subject: TWL: Re: Air in Diesel Fuel Lines
From: Rusty Nail (rustynail@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Mar 17 2001 - 09:17:55 EST
A friend of mine that runs a charter business in the USVI tells me that an
'old trick' he uses to bypass this procedure is to spray WD-40 into the air
intake while cranking - says it works every time! Does anyone out there know
if this will cause a larger problem in the long run? I tried it once & it
worked like a charm!
Capt Bob Widmann
'RUSTY NAIL'
43' M/T Tradewinds
Madison, CT
"2) If air is somehow introduced into the injector lines, each of the
clamping nuts needs to be cracked in turn and the engine cranked until fuel
seeps out of each. Since a diesel can run on only a few cylinders, it's
possible to purge air from only 3 or 4 of the injector lines, start the
engine, and let the rest purge themselves through the cylinders which will
happen very quickly."
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