Re: [doc] re new accumulator-now will not start!

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> got under there this afternoon, input flexible feed pipe has some
> sharp bends, and the outer sheathing has fallen off-time to change
> maybe (is that right, remove plate above from rear of consolea bout
> elbow position? to hold steel pipe).

Yes. A 14mm spanner placed in through the coin try hole, and visible 
from through the ashtray to hang onto the elbow. You'll also want a 17mm 
crowsfoot and a long extension to undo the fitting. We supply the hose, 
in case you didn't know :-) New hose with new swaged ends.

> now tried to feel feed pipe to fuel filter just the other side of
> the hole in the chassis. could be kinked as needed a lot of torque
> to under the bolt, 

What bolt? To take the filter off? Do you mean the fuel filter elbow? 
You'd really have to work hard to bust that line, it's fat and strong. I 
know of a car where that line has been replaced but my guess is that it 
as done because the elbow had seized. I've had to cut off the old elbow 
and flare on a new end on a couple of cars, but that's quite easy if you 
have the tools and a new elbow.

> this i think would give me the symtoms ie ran for
> a minute while the remaining fuel was in the filter, now maybe not
> enough diameter of feed pipe to provide the pressure.

No. It doesn't work like that. The fuel filter is constantly flowing 
quite a large volume of fuel. The engine only uses a tiny fraction and 
the rest it dumped back to the tank. Running free, the pump can empty 
the tank in under 5 minutes. If the pump couldn't maintain a primary 
pressure 5 bar, the engine would not run at all. It's that simple. I 
don't think your problem is fuel supply related.

> maybe two ways to test, one is to have made a replacement made
> routed differently or install a pressure guage after the fuel
> filter, problem is would a pressure guage really give me a reading
> of fuel flow?

Pressure and flow are basically interchangable for a given pump. You can 
generate a low flow (cc/min) at high pressure. Or vice-versa. If you 
have problem with flow, it'll appear as a drop in pressure because 
everything else remains constant.

I still think the problem's either CPR or idlespeed system.

> Just got my headlamp brakets and buckets--both wee shot and trying
> to decide if i can get them in without removing the front fasciaand
> bonnet!.

You can get the headlamp buckets in but not the mount without removing 
the bonnet.

Martin
DMC Ltd





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