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I have recently finished a motorhome conversion on my ducato and went to norfolk for a little break this week. On wednesday eve i went to start the van and it just spun over. Tried 3 or 4 times and not wanting to annoy other site users i called the recovery line to get a mech out to look at it. A local yokel arrived 15 minutes later, sure he was hanging around waiting for a bite.
told him the symptoms and he went straight to the fuel filter, pipe off turn the engine, nothing, no fuel at all. He put it back on the filter, did a few twirls and bends looking over the engine and took the filter pipe off again, tuuurnnn her oveeerrrr, sorry my norfolk accent in type He had fuel so quickly put the line back on and said turn her over again and guess what ? Nothing, it was my birthday as well, we were going to wells for a fish supper on the Quay, he then cracked open one of my injectors, i said woooaaw, should you be doing that with that much pressure around, he just said turn her over twice, tightened it back up and hey ho, next turn, off it went.He said it was an airlock ??
I believe these to be a pressured system but said hey ho whatever and got off th the cod and chips. All was well for the evening and indeed in the morning. But when we parked up at holkham, took the dogs for a run, returned to the van Nothing, same thing.We were actually leaving from there to come back home. Called the hotline again, he came out but this time could do nothing, i said how about trying your code reader to see if anythings occuring ? oooo rrrr he said but his reader could not connect with the van. We settled on a ride home on the truck as we were getting nowhere at the lakeside.I am not a mechanic but am not daft. I thought ok no fuel, checked the fuses and relay, still nothing. disconnected the plug on the in tank pump and checked for a short 12v feed upon key turn, Nothing but a 0.035 reading so just a nominal trace which means deeper probs. I then happened to note the lock symbol on the dash so read my manual and here we are. the fault symbol stays on when the key is turned to MAR position, so please can someone tell me where now ? i had a bump in the van last july on the nearside which involved remov al of several items connected to the nsf chassis area to facilitate repairs. I have read here that earth points could be to blame, not being tightened correctly etc, if so where am i to look for them and please tell me in laymans terms as i do suffer from old age memory....
My key could be to blame so does it mean new keys or recoding ?
Getting ahead of myself here, i removed the pump from the tank and did a manual 12v feed to it and it spat like a python so that puts the pump in the clear.
could you please help me with this matter and i promise to post phots of the conversion for you all to see as i am really proud of it
Thanks for your help with this matter, i have kept it light hearted as i actually feel like crying
I have recently finished a motorhome conversion on my ducato and went to norfolk for a little break this week. On wednesday eve i went to start the van and it just spun over. Tried 3 or 4 times and not wanting to annoy other site users i called the recovery line to get a mech out to look at it. A local yokel arrived 15 minutes later, sure he was hanging around waiting for a bite.
told him the symptoms and he went straight to the fuel filter, pipe off turn the engine, nothing, no fuel at all. He put it back on the filter, did a few twirls and bends looking over the engine and took the filter pipe off again, tuuurnnn her oveeerrrr, sorry my norfolk accent in type He had fuel so quickly put the line back on and said turn her over again and guess what ? Nothing, it was my birthday as well, we were going to wells for a fish supper on the Quay, he then cracked open one of my injectors, i said woooaaw, should you be doing that with that much pressure around, he just said turn her over twice, tightened it back up and hey ho, next turn, off it went.He said it was an airlock ??
I believe these to be a pressured system but said hey ho whatever and got off th the cod and chips. All was well for the evening and indeed in the morning. But when we parked up at holkham, took the dogs for a run, returned to the van Nothing, same thing.We were actually leaving from there to come back home. Called the hotline again, he came out but this time could do nothing, i said how about trying your code reader to see if anythings occuring ? oooo rrrr he said but his reader could not connect with the van. We settled on a ride home on the truck as we were getting nowhere at the lakeside.I am not a mechanic but am not daft. I thought ok no fuel, checked the fuses and relay, still nothing. disconnected the plug on the in tank pump and checked for a short 12v feed upon key turn, Nothing but a 0.035 reading so just a nominal trace which means deeper probs. I then happened to note the lock symbol on the dash so read my manual and here we are. the fault symbol stays on when the key is turned to MAR position, so please can someone tell me where now ? i had a bump in the van last july on the nearside which involved remov al of several items connected to the nsf chassis area to facilitate repairs. I have read here that earth points could be to blame, not being tightened correctly etc, if so where am i to look for them and please tell me in laymans terms as i do suffer from old age memory....
My key could be to blame so does it mean new keys or recoding ?
Getting ahead of myself here, i removed the pump from the tank and did a manual 12v feed to it and it spat like a python so that puts the pump in the clear.
could you please help me with this matter and i promise to post phots of the conversion for you all to see as i am really proud of it
Thanks for your help with this matter, i have kept it light hearted as i actually feel like crying