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Originally Posted by Beest
This is very interesting.
i) the first incidence of non starting was couple of weeks ago when it ran very low on fuel, we chalked this up to having run so low, and were also thinking that crap could have been sucked up from the bottom of the tank.
ii) waiting a bit has helped on the firt two occasions, taking ten minutes to make some calls and wait for the tow truck before giving it one last try, and voila.
iii) The station were we usually buy gas was closed for a day or two, it's less than a year old at a local supermarket, shopping there gets points for cheaper gas.
What are the chances the new station got water in it's fuel and had to be flushed out and we got a fill of that.
Hmmm....
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Yeah, this sounds a lot like crap in the fuel line.
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Originally Posted by BigV
You need a new fuel filter.
MIGHT be water, but water is denser than fuel, so would be at bottom of tank, where fuel pickup is located. But if you took in some water, it would have run like shit, but then passed through! The water doesn't KEEP giving you trouble.
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I've heard that water can
not pass through a fuel filter and so will cause a blockage or partial blockage, which produces the symptoms described here. It tends to form droplets inside the fuel filter and the fuel just can't get through. The metho breaks the droplets up and they pass through the engine more or less harmlessly.
Well, that works down here, supposedly (I've never done the metho, but I've fixed cars once by giving the filter a good hard shake and once by replacing the filter). Mind you, our cars run on petrol, not gasoline, and it swirls into the tank clockwise, so lord knows what happens up where you are.
