If the tank screen is plugged, you can reverse the lines in the engine bay and bypass the screen, but then your filters may plug up pretty quickly and you'll run out of fuel early, with about a quarter of a tank left.
Max Dillon Charleston SC Aug 7, 2021 6:16:18 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>: > Tank screen clogged with algae? Might need to clean the tank and fuel lines > out. > > Allan > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2021, at 5:43 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >> Success!!!! >> >> I decided to fool with this thing a bit this afternoon. I got it for $300 a >> few months ago and it has been sitting. When I picked it up the guy who had >> it had been trying to start it without success from a jug of fuel. >> >> I charged up the battery a coupla days ago (nice Bosch battery) and gave it >> a go today. I could hear the glow plug relay clicking so it was working. >> Electrons were going to the glow plugs so that was good. I tried a few times >> to start it, nothing. So I disconnected the fuel line, which is going to a >> big in-line filter, and stuck it in a liter bottle of fuel. I pumped the >> primer and it seemed to be pulling fuel but it wasn’t before when the line >> was hooked to the tank. >> >> Glowed 3X then started cranking. After about 30seconds it lit right off!!! >> Yay me!!! And it ran quite nicely and the rear end even pumped up. It ran >> fine for a few minutes until the fuel in the bottle ran out. >> >> I hooked the line back to the tank line and tried starting no luck. The fuel >> gauge said the tank was full but who knows. I opened the tank cap and it was >> full right to the top. Hmmmm. But it smells like paint thinner so who knows >> what it is. I tried the primer pump again but it seems like it is sucking >> air. Maybe I need to get some fuel in the line and see if I can start it >> again and then try to move it. >> >> Anyway, mostly successful! I’m excited. Now it becomes somewhat saleable >> maybe. >> >> >> >> >> >> --FT >> Sent from iPhone >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
