I had no choice other than run without a fuel filter for about 12 miles this morning. How badly am I likely to of f*cked my Bosch Pump?
Basically I pulled out to go to a race and the car wouldn't rev, no power, just a bastard to drive and within 200 yards cut out and wouldn't restart. Cracked the bonnet and could see there was no fuel in the return line, pumped the grenade and still no fuel.
Took the fuel line off at the pump inlet and still no fuel from the primer. took the line off pre filter and had fuel, still not alot but enough to get me 6 miles down the road (7am on a Sunday so Halfords was closed). It still wouldn't rev past about 2000rpm and was terribly lurchy when you tried like when its starving flat out.
I assume I've got a blocked strainer as well as needing a new filter that I've just cycled to halfords to get?
EDIT:
Well the filter wasn't blocked, something much much worse has gone wrong.
The pump doesn't suck hard enough to pull fuel through even a fresh fuel filter, the in tank strainer was clean (well clean enough but i cleaned it through) and the mesh was intact.
I'm stumpped, either something has somehow got through and is stuck in the lines restricting it or the actual Bosch itself is f*cked. Anybody help?
Basically I pulled out to go to a race and the car wouldn't rev, no power, just a bastard to drive and within 200 yards cut out and wouldn't restart. Cracked the bonnet and could see there was no fuel in the return line, pumped the grenade and still no fuel.
Took the fuel line off at the pump inlet and still no fuel from the primer. took the line off pre filter and had fuel, still not alot but enough to get me 6 miles down the road (7am on a Sunday so Halfords was closed). It still wouldn't rev past about 2000rpm and was terribly lurchy when you tried like when its starving flat out.
I assume I've got a blocked strainer as well as needing a new filter that I've just cycled to halfords to get?
EDIT:
Well the filter wasn't blocked, something much much worse has gone wrong.
The pump doesn't suck hard enough to pull fuel through even a fresh fuel filter, the in tank strainer was clean (well clean enough but i cleaned it through) and the mesh was intact.
I'm stumpped, either something has somehow got through and is stuck in the lines restricting it or the actual Bosch itself is f*cked. Anybody help?