Darkimag22
OBS Enthusiast
Have a bit of a weird one that has me scratching my head (and wanting to beat it against a rock wall).
Long story short, 3 weeks ago I was in a rush and had a HUGE brain fart and filled up with 60l of diesel (I'll never live that one down lol). I drained everything, threw in new 91 octane fuel as well as a fuel system cleaner and thought all was good as it ran great. It was until temps began to fall past -10C that I started to have a no start issue. It will partially fire and then just die. If I plug the block heater in for more than 5 minutes it will fire up no problem at all. I have disabled the VSS so that shouldn't be an issue. After it has warmed up, most of the time it starts after 4 to 5 seconds of turning over...and the odd time it will instantly fire.
I replace the spider injection a little over a year ago so I don't think that is the problem. I am going to replace the fuel filter tonight after work...but it still doesn't make sense to me why it starts instantly after only 5 minutes of being plugged in. I don't think it is the fuel pump since I had the 2 fuel lines detached from the top of the engine (had to bleed the system to get all the contaminated fuel out of the lines) and it seemed to be pumping fuel fine.
Any suggestions of what else it could be/what I could try to fix this issue.
Still can't believe I was such a dumb a$$...
Long story short, 3 weeks ago I was in a rush and had a HUGE brain fart and filled up with 60l of diesel (I'll never live that one down lol). I drained everything, threw in new 91 octane fuel as well as a fuel system cleaner and thought all was good as it ran great. It was until temps began to fall past -10C that I started to have a no start issue. It will partially fire and then just die. If I plug the block heater in for more than 5 minutes it will fire up no problem at all. I have disabled the VSS so that shouldn't be an issue. After it has warmed up, most of the time it starts after 4 to 5 seconds of turning over...and the odd time it will instantly fire.
I replace the spider injection a little over a year ago so I don't think that is the problem. I am going to replace the fuel filter tonight after work...but it still doesn't make sense to me why it starts instantly after only 5 minutes of being plugged in. I don't think it is the fuel pump since I had the 2 fuel lines detached from the top of the engine (had to bleed the system to get all the contaminated fuel out of the lines) and it seemed to be pumping fuel fine.
Any suggestions of what else it could be/what I could try to fix this issue.
Still can't believe I was such a dumb a$$...