cleaning lift pump filter
Drove the GS up to Melbourne yesterday and as usual didn't miss a beat but not long after filling up at United Fuel in Highett she started running really rough like air in the fuel and then just cut out completely. Had to push the beast off the side the road- i was thinking must be bad fuel but had forgotten to bring my tools so couldn't do much at all- decided to just prime the hand pump on lift pump for a bit and then got her firing again and ran fine until i almost got back home before the same thing happened again. After getting her home and tools at hand i cleaned the sedimenter which wasn't too bad and fuel that came out was pretty clean- then removed the small plastic inline filter under lift pump and found the culprit- was blocked up to the max -amazing any fuel could get past it - was basically a plug of black putty inside it! I guess the army mechanics bypass that part of the maintenance procedure! It's actually not hard to remove and you don't even need to get under the vehicle -it's easier to do it from above -took me all of about 10 mins.