Last spring I made the mistake of tipping up the oil tank when the level was low - it eventually stopped working & I assumed oil had ran out, totally forgot about it until last week when we filled with oil & tried to restart !
To cut a long story short I had a full line of water in pipe - this I discharged (full bucket full) & eventually got it working. Next day I started it up & it failed on the 12 second priming stage. Oil pump had stuck - took case off (gearing) & started & the motor turned fine, refitted top casing & after getting shut of more H2O in line, got it started. THEN noticed pressure had dropped to nothing !? filled up with tap & within a few hrs its back to nothing. There are no leaks from pipes/rads etc, so pulled out expansion vessel & pressed valve centre to check if any pressure in there - H2O came out so I'm assuming diaphragm is split.
Question : if it's split & I open refill tap, shouldn't it just fill vessel totally, then once full, I should see pressure go up then it should stablise UNLESS I've got a leak somewhere else ?
Has anyone else made this mistake & if so what bother has it caused (injectors, pumps etc)?
Cheers ade.
To cut a long story short I had a full line of water in pipe - this I discharged (full bucket full) & eventually got it working. Next day I started it up & it failed on the 12 second priming stage. Oil pump had stuck - took case off (gearing) & started & the motor turned fine, refitted top casing & after getting shut of more H2O in line, got it started. THEN noticed pressure had dropped to nothing !? filled up with tap & within a few hrs its back to nothing. There are no leaks from pipes/rads etc, so pulled out expansion vessel & pressed valve centre to check if any pressure in there - H2O came out so I'm assuming diaphragm is split.
Question : if it's split & I open refill tap, shouldn't it just fill vessel totally, then once full, I should see pressure go up then it should stablise UNLESS I've got a leak somewhere else ?
Has anyone else made this mistake & if so what bother has it caused (injectors, pumps etc)?
Cheers ade.