Trying to find....

[kryton101]

Evening people,
I'm trying to find a post on bleeding the diesel system on a 2.2 lwb, I know I've read it somewhere and have a suspicion this job it's a git to get right.

Cheers, Joe

[alex]

Try the how too section, whats up?

[kryton101]

Will not start at the moment, I mad the mistake of trying to bleed the system and have found out that you need a priming pump to bleed the system back to the fuel tank.
My local diesel fitter is happy to sort the problems with the engine light but I can't get it started to drive it to his garage.

Joe

[alex]

There is a section in the How to on getting your 2.2 going again after a bodged filter change.

Have you tried loosening the injectors in turn and pumping the primer? Does the primer go hard when pumping?

[lotusfrontera]

There ain`t a primer on a 2.2 Vx do a tool that screws into the system to aid priming.

[lotusfrontera]

You can fit an inline priming "bulb" available from good motor factors, I`ve got one somewhere in the garage, pity you wasn`t nearer.They will eventually bleed through by cranking if you`ve got a good battery, BUT be warned this method may cause injection pump failure.

[kryton101]

I've been reading about pump failure, expensive!

[kryton101]

How does a primer bulb work?

There is a tyre valve on the top of the primer tube and I would of thought this would of needed to be pressed as the flow of diesel exits the bulb?

Bl**dy motorcars.....grrrrr

[john (smifffy)]

its a rubber bulb with a one way valve in it and pipe either end

it draws derv up through the system then back to tank clearing air a bit liike this

[kryton101]

Thanks John, that picture answers a lot of questions.

Joe

[meooo]

Or........if you have access to compressor......loosen bleed nipple @ filter end, apply air line to fuel tank filler, seal with cloth (rag) and apply air pressure......fuel pushed through to filter etc, second person needed to tighten bleed screws

[kryton101]

I bleed the system finally this afternoon and now I'm up and running again, hurrrrahhhhh.

What a nightmare trying to aquire the right hose fittings though, I thought vauxhall would be able to supply the adaptor for the primer pipe. Wrong! The guy in parts pasted me onto their service department as it's a specialist tool, ya right! He couldn't do anything for me as he says it's company policy to not sell tools like this to the public, and even though he had one he could lend it. That bleep me off big time so I went home and took the primer pipe off and went in search of a local pipefitting suppliers.

So now I have a 1/4 turn ball valve in place of the vauxhall primer and a hose adapters either side, all I have to do is fit the bulb pump to valve, pump and open the valve and bleed system and close valve again. Now it' bleed the handle for the valve is kept in the cab and I won't be contacting vauxhall parts again as they have proved to be completely unhelpful in situations like this.

Thanks for all your help, Joe


Fronteraowners. 1 WINNER
Vauxhall customer service. o

[nitromotor]

Glad to read you sorted it out.
As for your poor experience, remember it’s not Vauxhall; it’s a dealership that was unhelpful.

[Huwwalford]

Changed my filter last year following instruction off this site....went like clock work ...Did it again just after Christmas....what a cock up I made......didn't put the tang of the fuel filter canister into the spaces on the top of the filter tightened the bolt .....CRACK.....leaking fuel canister / holder..... New filer holder from VX stealer.....£80 VX had to order it so had to leave the Fronty with the fuel lines clamped closed. Got new canister and had to use the battery to pull the fuel through

Need to look at one of those primer tools
Huw.

[kryton101]

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