Thread: Puma - Fuel Priming Dilemma

A few of the Puma owners here use marine fuel primers and then DIY the hose to fit the outlet in the engine bay.

g'day Everyone,

Anyone come up with a supplier for a priming pump.

Jake

Yes, mine arrived in today's mail from the UK. Cost me £25 (that's less than $40) including delivery but you'll find cheaper if you can be bothered to search.

There are dozens of suppliers.

Google for;

43986 DPT DRAPER EXPERT DIESEL PRIMING PUMP


There are other brands but Draper is a reputable UK tool manufacturer.

I have bled the fuel system from completely empty and used a marine type bellows as well as a bit of air pressure through the tank breather line.

There is a bit more on page 18 of the link below.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...roject-18.html



Erich

Originally Posted by pc3

Who will step up an manufacture a reasonably priced hand pump to purchase (with instructions) and save us form the over priced OME unit. Then we can all just have this part in our PUMAS.

Daniel at Mulgo Possibly ??

I found this one here in Ozzy for a tad under $58 delivered.

http://www.autotools.com.au/catalogue/product.php/1/AT000WH101Aa

The one out of the UK is less expensive unit to buy but delivery to Oz was $58:50!!!!! Now maybe I did something wrong when I filled out the order form? Never the less I'm getting my delivered to a mate's house in the UK and having him bring back to work for me.

Cheers
Craig

Another fuel priming question here...
Correct me if i'm wrong here but it looks to me like all these priming tools will only get diesel up to the intake of the injector pump.
What if the injector pump has lost it's prime, or has an air lock in it. If i get diesel up to the intake of the pump is this good enough? Or will i have to then pressurise the tank with the tank return removed down at the tank?
Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Chris

While in NSW I dropped into two ford dealerships and neither had priming tools,both just pressurised the tank to force fuel up.Niether said they had issues unless the motor was run totally dry. Pat

On mine I have fitted fuel filter housing with in-built primer, whilst doing so, changed fuel lines to rubber hose. When came startup time, removed fuel line from pump and hand primed until fuel came out of lines (engine had not been started for 6 months, at least), re-fitted line and gave primer a few more pumps and away she went, no splutter at all. I have changed fuel filter a few times since with no problems at all. I agree, a special tool to bleed the fuel system is just crazy.