twiisted71
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Just wanted to let some out there know something I discovered y-day who may not already know. My Perkins 6.354 has a manual primer lever on the lift pump. Y-day we tried to go out ant it stalled-luckily we were still in our canal system so we just drifted over and tied off to a dock. I had very little warning that something was wrong, the engine rpms climbed and dropped a little several times like a filter clogging. I pulled my filter which was pretty clean. cracked an injector line and primed via the manual lever. Engine fired and ran a minute or so and died again. I cracked lines and hit the starter---no fuel! The lever could make some pressure but the engine operated lever didn't move it enough to pressurize anymore. Luckily my boat's cruising bag had a spare lift pump! I changed it out and the manual lever even had a drastically different feel. Needless to say-she fired right up and ran fine all the way back home!!
Just because the manual lever will move fuel--don't assume the lift pump is OK
Just because the manual lever will move fuel--don't assume the lift pump is OK