Author Topic: Leaking pump - tear apart or send off?  (Read 3858 times)

July 31, 2006, 11:54:23 pm

commuter boy

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Leaking pump - tear apart or send off?
« on: July 31, 2006, 11:54:23 pm »
So I finally decided to pull the pump and find out why it's leaking diesel down the back.  Most likely the cold start seal, so everyone tells me.

Buy a seal kit, replace the cold start seal, and notice after a few minutes before install that there's diesel weeping out of the seam between the pump and the head, but only on the engine side.

Drat.  As much as I feel I could pull the pump and replace the seal (it can't be worse than working on the helicopter turbine fuel governers I used to do), I think this is a job better left for Giles.

Anyone else have a different opinion?  Is this a do-it yourselfer type of thing?