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Blackcab Bob
 Post subject: Re: F******* Ford Focus
PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:08 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
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Yay hey!! The easy start did the trick. TFFT!

It never let me down in my last life as a Diesel service engineer (makers Man)

Cat engines can be a real Pig to start after a overhaul :) :)



Fly spray also works. :D


Added Bonus it kills fly's as well :lol: :lol: :lol:
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 Post subject: Re: F******* Ford Focus
PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:12 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
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I changed the fuel filter myself on the Mondeo, always filling the new filter with diesel before fitting it, a few churns and she always started



The new engines are a pig to get started, even trying to find the filter is a task, it's at the rear of the motor underneath the fuel tank.


Job for the garage then bless em

i did fix my turbo with Mr Muscle though, i deserve respect if only for that!

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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: F******* Ford Focus
PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:48 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
I changed the fuel filter myself on the Mondeo, always filling the new filter with diesel before fitting it, a few churns and she always started



The new engines are a pig to get started, even trying to find the filter is a task, it's at the rear of the motor underneath the fuel tank.


Job for the garage then bless em

i did fix my turbo with Mr Muscle though, i deserve respect if only for that!



You can't fill the new style ones with diesel hence all the problems getting them started, here's where they're located right under the fuel tank. When you take it off you can't fill it up again with fuel to prime it.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: F******* Ford Focus
PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:10 pm 
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who dreamt that up?

wasnt the EGR, DMF and DPF enough of a bind?

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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: F******* Ford Focus
PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:28 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
who dreamt that up?

wasnt the EGR, DMF and DPF enough of a bind?



Dunno mate, now you can appreciate the problems people have starting them when they've changed the filter.

The old ones were better, take the filter off, fill the new one up with diesel and re-fit. Turn engine over and within two cranks it was running.
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