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D 17 fuel bleeding

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Topic: D 17 fuel bleeding

Posted By: Ollie Oliver
Subject: D 17 fuel bleeding
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2010 at 11:24pm

Hello I have a diesel D 17 that I changed the fuel filters on, and now, how do I bleed the air out? I'm used to (excuse me) Oliver's and IH's where there's a hand priming pump to bleed the system, but on this old gal, there isn't such a thing, any help would be great, thanks.

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Posted By: Steve M C/IL
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2010 at 11:43pm

Aren't the filters below top of fuel tank(fill it up)?Don't they have bleed plugs on top of bases. Let gravity do the work.

Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2010 at 12:28am

I used a shop vac to prime mine. I loosened the hose at the pump head then put the vac hose on the outlet side of the vac and used it to pressurize the fuel tank.

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Posted By: Ollie Oliver
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2010 at 8:24am

Hey thats a great idea, I just might give that a whirl. Thanks for the help

Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2010 at 10:15am

Also once you get clean fuel to the pump, crack an injector line at the easiest injector to get to. We always pull started them to save on starter and batteries.

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Posted By: Ollie Oliver
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2010 at 1:12pm

Thank you very much for the advice. I did the shop vac trick and it worked like a charm, it's up and running, and I bled each injector line too, thanks again!