The Saga Continues

[eagle19952]

these are what i call monkey problems... look where the last monkey, monkeyed 

[Gordie Allen]

I've had two occasions to be educated on running out of fuel. One was not even a fuel issue. The emergency shutdown butterfly closed following a failure in the mechanism that holds it open. The second I ran it totally dry in both filters. I refilled them, squirted a little fuel into the blower intake, and it fired right up. I also have a check valve on the supply line which keeps it from draining back into the tank. The bus also came with an extra copper line teed into the line from the secondary filter to the injectors. This line is about 8" long, bent like an upside down "J", and has a half turn valve. I can open that valve and pump fuel from the tank all the way past the secondary filter with a marine fuel primer bulb.

[Lostranger]

Sorry you're having trouble, Sean. Most of us know what that's like.

We once spent three days at a fairground in PA where I had played music while two "professionals" messed with the shaft that drives the fuel pump on a 6v92. Turned out that the bus was sitting at too steep an angle sideways for the fuel pickup to work. It was sucking air the whole time.

You'll be in our thoughts and prayers. Hope you're up and going early this morning.

Jim H.

[luvrbus]

The fuel is going into to the tank by using 4 gals if had a bad filter gasket or leak it would show up on the floor if not going into the oil pan jmo a electric priming pump will run a DD

[digesterman]

these are what i call monkey problems... look where the last monkey, monkeyed 

Isn't that the truth

[wrongway around]

First post hope it works and helps. I just bought THE BUS and had a problem like this on my first service. If your using that much fuel it can only be going back to the tank . My return check valve was stuck open I took it apart and found rubber jammed inside holding it open. Cleaned and fixed it only to have it happen again. My lines are all hard copper except right above the tank there is two flex lines for what I assume is for being able to drop the tank. I took those off and bought two new ones after I deemed them hard brittle and falling apart from the inside out. Put it all back together and primed it with a make shift hand pressurized hand pump. Fired right up and been on the road for the last month and a half touring around bc.with zero fuel issues. Darn power steering is a whole different story . Kind of thinking my lines there might be the same story. Heading back to vancouver so I can really tear into it before I head up north and finish my trip before it snows. Hope this helps you out.cheers . George.