Starting a Petter PH1 single cylinder Diesel engine

[Baldbloke]

never get it started to leave the pub

Not if it’s like mine anyway[emoji849]

[Baldbloke]

The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

[Khriss]

Its fixable, Fear Not,   i will crank mine up in the week n see if anything comes to mind. K

[Craig.]

On 08/05/2021 at 18:58, Baldbloke said:

The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

On some, where the fuel pipe comes out of the tank, it is screwed on to a larger fitting screwed into the bottom of the tank. This larger fitting sometimes has a filter on the inside which often gets overlooked.

[Kevm]

 

On 08/05/2021 at 18:58, Baldbloke said:

The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

I think you are too trusting.

Edited May 11, 2021 by Kevm

[Steven P]

8 hours ago, Kevm said:

 

I think you are too trusting.

But the seller did travel, what 50 miles to help out, think he sounds genuine in this case

 

[Billhook]

On 07/05/2021 at 21:44, Khriss said:

.. It will be if you put a tipper on it and 6x6. I got as far as the tipper  🙄 K

Like this you mean, tipper as well as 3.5 V8 Stage 1

 

[Billhook]

On 05/05/2021 at 15:25, topchippyles said:

Give it a squirt of easy start but not to much 

Forget the Easy Start, just give the man on the handle a squirt of this!

[Khriss]

1 hour ago, Billhook said:

Like this you mean, tipper as well as 3.5 V8 Stage 1

 

Ooooooo yr bugger 😉 wot a cracker !  K

[topchippyles]

3 hours ago, Billhook said:

Like this you mean, tipper as well as 3.5 V8 Stage 1

 

That is a proper land rover and what does dempsey know about such things 😆That one of his is a weekend run about.