i just restored my 83 rabbit NA diesel, i installed new gas tank, filled my new fuel filter full of fuel and primed all my fuel lines making sure the injector pump was full, and it will not start. it will start and stay running when i spray engine start fluid in the air box, but ounce i stop sprayting it in, the car dies and wont start again, someone please help! its my first car haha
I would suspect that you may have a air issue in the fuel lines.
On the back of the injector pump the lines are attached to the manifold.
Crack and bleed the lines where the port extenders screw in to the manifold.
Have some one crank the car as you bleed the port.
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ive lootened all the injectors one at a time and turned it over untill fuel squirted out, i filled the fuel filter, ive put a blower the gas port and tried forcing fuel into it that way, ive bleed the air out at the fuel filter housing, i wish the housing had the pump on it but it does not, i wish i could find one! but it still will not start unless the starter spray is sprayed into the airbox, battery is fully charged, all glow plugs have power, i must have alot of air in the lines. i put in a new fuel tank so everything was full of air
thats what it looks like
Last edited by lmmlax9; 06-24-2012 at 08:40 AM.
Did you remove the glow plugs (number 4 is easy to get to) and verify that it gets red hot in 7 seconds? If it doesn't then it may not start the car with out ether assist. If the car isn't running correctly that is after the ether is gone, then you have a fuel pressure issue.
It could be the timing of the Injector pump isn't quite right, as there are specific settings using a dial gauge that you have to do.
There is a possibility that you have a leak. On the clear tube in the front of the IP to the filter, are there air bubbles.? If the clear hose was replaced you can get a piece of clear hose, and splice it in line with a couple of barbed fittings, and hose clamps, as air bubbles is a bleed of air into the IP... It can come from the tank, or the filter.
I have had air bubbles in the back of the injector pump that were a dickens to get rid of. I ended up taking the injector ports out of the pumps steel manifold (back of the pump) and then bleeding both sides of that port. Then having to bleed the fuel lines to the injectors as well.
Some folks have installed a external secondary pump to pump fuel up to the Injector pump, with good results.
I will be moving your thread to the old timers section which deals with older mk1's specifically Diesels....
What do Divorces, Great Coffee and Cars all have in common?
They all Start with good GROUNDS.
Replace all of them that you can, 99 percent of flakiness will disappear.
92, 93 Cabriolet.... 89, and 90 are Deceased.
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