Ripley

Hello sorry for slow reply been away from the boat at a family funeral, as advised I was able to turn the engine round with a spanner so the cam was in a different position and then after doing that was successfully able to get fuel flowing with the lift pump by hand. Many thanks for the advice much appreciated Have been able to get the fuel flowing with the lift hand pump now after rotating the engine round a bit with a spanner, seems like the cam was in the wrong position as suggested. Got fuel through the filters all good and successfully bled past the injector pump bleed screw. The fuel is now at the injectors but when I'm trying to bleed them with the engine, fuel is dripping from each injector with alot of air bubbles... have tried turning the engine over 4 times now both around 30seconds each attempt but still having bubbles come through out of injector unions. Is this abnormal/ how long should it take for the air to be expelled? Is it damaging for air to get this far? I'm jumping the starter of leisure batteries when necessary so power isn't an issue, just don't want to damage start motor or anything. Have heard some people use easystart for cold starting BMC's but it's not recommended much?

No worries ahah worth asking but yeah loads of diseal in there Okey will give that a go, just to clarify do u mean rotate the engine as in using the ignition?

Yeah it's definitely a 3rd fuel filter not an oil filter, now thinking it might indeed be a lift pump issue as the other 2 are gravity fed Yes sorry wrong terminology on my part, the lift pump not injector pump. Got the strainer out the lift pump and gave it a clean, I think your right about it likely being a lift pump issue as the first 2 seem gravity fed. Trying your suggestion out now to figure out where the problem is -thank you so much for the advice Hi Tony Looks like its a lift pump issue as you mentioned. I loosened the outlet from the pump, fuel tap on while priming the pump and only a few drops came out. Is there a part of the pump that wears out? Do I need to replace the whole pump like for like or is there anything else that may be stopping the lever from priming? Lever moves just the same as usual, no stiffness or loose feeling compared to my experiences on other bmc's. Thanks for the response so far this is really helpful.

Okey thanks will give it a shot filling the filter up a bit first with fresh fuel, appreciate the advice alot

No worries ahahah yeah thr fuel supply is on good. Worth mentioning maybes that the diseal in this particular filter before I replaced it, was black in colour when I took the old filter off

Hey looking for some advice, currently servicing our bmc engine which has 3 old fuel filters fitted that I've replaced, got 3 new ones on there and started bleeding the system which was going fine as normal for the first 2 filters, then the final 3rd filter I can't seem to get any diseal to come through (got the bleed screw open and the manual injector pump is working but can't get any fuel to come through) tried taking the filter off and putting back and there doesn't seem to be any obvious issue stopping it from getting through after the 2nd filter which bleed successfully. Anyone got any troubleshooting advice or ideas on what the issue might be?