[Vwdiesel] It lives

[James Hansen]

If additives will help, the most additive thing you could do is find
yourself a can of a product called Diesel Purge made by Lubro-Moly.  It's
the mechanic in a can if it will help.  Keep your small feed can hooked to
the pump, and try to run almost straight lubro-moly through the pump until
it's almost gone at idle.  Stop, let it sit for a while, and try again with
fresh diesel.  If additives will help, this is pretty much the ER crash cart
for pumps.
-james

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On Behalf Of Erik Lane
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:04 PM
> To: dhanew at yahoo.com
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] It lives
> 
> That lever pulls on a spring inside the pump. I expect it's a little
> gummed
> up in there. Run a bunch of good additive like the Stanadyne stuff
> through
> it and hopefully that will clean it up.
> 
> I would bet on it coming back to good working order after running for a
> while. The pump heating up internally might also help.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Dave Newlin <dhanew at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >  Thanks for all of your help trying to get this diesel Rabbit of mine
> > running that has been sitting for 9 years. I was able to use your
> tips to
> > get it running although it will only run on fresh diesel hooked up to
> the
> > pump inlet. I took the line off from the filter and I am running it
> having
> > in a bottle of new diesel. I need to get as much of the old diesel
> out of
> > the tank and get new stuff in there. Hooked up to the fuel filter the
> engine
> > fires, but won't keep running. I started it this afternoon, a
> beautiful
> > Spring day in Michigan and it came to life belching white smoke out
> of the
> > engine, blocking the sun and leading my neighbor to come by and ask
> me if I
> > am running kerosene in it. I felt sort of like Dr. Frankenstein
> yelling "It
> > lives! It lives!"
> >
> >  I have one problem so far. The throttle doesn't work. I pull the
> lever at
> > the engine or push down the pedal and the engine doesn't increase or
> > decrease in RPM. Is this just a matter of running it a while and it
> will
> > clear up and it will begin to work or is it something bigger.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
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