Thread: Fuel regulator strainer

Today had to pull the starter motor out to do the solenoid (click click time) contacts worn half through, I must say I got lucky on the dreaded 15 mm nut only took about 1 minute to get off with 3/8 drive 150 mm wobble extension and 15mm short socket
Doing the fuel regulator as it is leaking everywhere ( what a s++t of a job. On one how to I read for it the bloke said only pull the strainer if you want to be pedantic I would suggest being pedantic as this is what mine looked like.





The thing that concerns me now is that that sludge is on the outside of the strainer and in the engine, I'm not sure on the direction of flow but looks like it goes from regulator block through strainer from inside to out so crap should be on inside of strainer

I was going to pull manifold off as I was going to clean it and the intercooler but the manifold gasket I bought a month ago had vanished somewhere ( will probably find it after I buy a new one).
After I worked out it was an almost straight line from the gap between the chassis and the body to the bottom fpr bolt it wasn't as bad a job as I was anticipating, made a couple of locating dowels out of 8mm bolts with threads the entire length for the top holes so when you slid the gasket and body onto the the threads provided enough grip that nothing slid off and then put bottom bolt in first (a lot easier to reach from the bottom) and did up finger tight just made it so much easier than when I undid bottom bolt from above.


The contacts look like there would be over 1/2 of the thickness gone so the diesel leaking on there may have caused the problem or just a case of coincidental timing.


I don't know the history of the car as was bought from hail auction and only came with a key and a receipt from Mannheim , no log book or any other paperwork so don't know if injectors have been a problem in the past . But has probably been maintained by owner going on a couple of the repairs on it eg zip ties in all bolt holes on xyz switch, egr bypass, lifting lug not put back on engine beside fpr, bike tubes and zipties holding all brake, ace and oil cooler pipes off anything they may rub against etc but seems to be in good nick for 230,000 kms


Fuel pump has a very slight whine if you are standing behind it at idle or really howls when doing the self prime thing after doing a filter but starts easy as just turn key and go no hesitation at all (other than the last week with starter motor)