Egregious
Guru
Marin and others have mentioned the single best mod they've made to a Ford Lehman was installation of the CAV adapter which allows use of screw on filters.* Well, this weekend I figured I'd change the filters to see if it is worth it to spend $135 on a double adapter... I'm buying one tonight from ABC precision.* Anyone with an old Lehman or Perkins should do the same, especially if you got twins.
I read the Perkins manual on bleeding the system and changing the filters and figured "how hard can it be?"* *After spewing fuel everywhere, yelling every curse word in the book, pissing my wife off, then apologizing to her and putting her on "crank the motor some" duty, and using about 8 different sized wrenches and pliers, I finally got the thing started.* It took almost 3 hours and a call to my mechanic who gave me a few pointers over the phone.* I figure I can probably do it again in under an hour, but Dang what a mess!* Having cracked connections and opening bleed screws at every stage of the system I ended up with fuel everywhere.
On the plus side, I now know the fuel / injection system intimately.* My engine is dirt simple...* No fuel = no go.* Once I got fuel flowing out at the injector* it started right up.* I made the mistake of attempting to crank the engine too soon and sucking air into the high pressure system.* Another lesson learned.
I read the Perkins manual on bleeding the system and changing the filters and figured "how hard can it be?"* *After spewing fuel everywhere, yelling every curse word in the book, pissing my wife off, then apologizing to her and putting her on "crank the motor some" duty, and using about 8 different sized wrenches and pliers, I finally got the thing started.* It took almost 3 hours and a call to my mechanic who gave me a few pointers over the phone.* I figure I can probably do it again in under an hour, but Dang what a mess!* Having cracked connections and opening bleed screws at every stage of the system I ended up with fuel everywhere.
On the plus side, I now know the fuel / injection system intimately.* My engine is dirt simple...* No fuel = no go.* Once I got fuel flowing out at the injector* it started right up.* I made the mistake of attempting to crank the engine too soon and sucking air into the high pressure system.* Another lesson learned.