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Old 12-10-2013, 02:46 AM
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I did this before the prefilter fiasco. would not kill engine by depressing Stop lever. Choke's the motor down but will not kill it.
Sounds to me like you might have a throttle linkage problem.

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Well, let me tell you when it rains it pours, I got the car running and decided I would get my buddy to follow me in his truck just in case the car quit he could pull me back. The car ran out of fuel or so I thought. Sucked up the ugly stuff at the bottom of the tank. Completely clogged the prefilter, so I am now going to change the tank out as it seems easier than trying to clean the tank that is on the car now. As soon as I get it running again. I will see if my neighbors wife will suck on the hose to see if she can kill my engine...
The fuel supply comes from the bottom of the tank anyway so it isn't an especially bad thing to run the fuel low. If you live in a warm climate you can get stuff growing in your diesel fuel tank (apparently - I've never seen it - it never gets warm enough for weird stuff like that here)


I hope neighbour's wife's husband (I have to be specific about which neighbour I guess) is open minded about this plan of yours - especially if you're planning on filming this and putting it on youtube...

...you could do your own sucking if this turns into a tricky situation.
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