tdiDerry
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2009
- Location
- Chandler, AZ USA
- TDI
- 2006 Jetta MkV Sedan; 2002 Jetta MkIV Sedan; 1999 Jetta MkIV Sedan
Well I'll tell the story and the remedy, you can skip down if you don't want to hear about me being an idiot.
No longer get to drive my loving TDi because I gave up 75 mile commute for a 9 mile one. My son now uses it for school. But I needed it for a long drive to a NFL football game, my first. So I pick up my buddy, go a mile to the gas station. get out, go around the car -forgot to open the fuel door. go back open it, take off the cap and remember that my son never puts in Power Service, go back and open trunk, get power service, put some in, put back and close trunk. Swipe card, and grab handle closest to the ready, open, fuel door, push the worn out button right above where I just got the pump handle from and fill the car to the tippy top.. I always fill up the filler neck.. Get in the car ready to go to the game, ask buddy where we are going to eat and proceed to drive 1.1 miles before the engine dies. Coast into a private gated golfcourse. Now I have had a faulty fuel pump before that I had to replace, which would overheat, so if you waited a while it would start and run for a short time.. Which this did.. ran poorly and had to rev it, but I managed to get away from the golfcourse and down the road a bit, when it died.. so we pushed it about 1/2 mile in the 106 degree AZ heat, to a parking lot where i called the wife, to bring me another car.. When she gets there she asked me what happened and then said -"did you put in Gas instead of Diesel..." and it hit me.. the pump handle was silver and not green.. and it was really clean as I though about it.. Went to the Game, came home and looked through the forums on what to do. Towed the car home the next morning, and proceeded below.
--Had to buy--
1. new fuel filter - $35
2. Hand syphon pump - $12
3. new diesel - $20 initially ($35 after it was running, $6 for PowerService if you don't already have it)
--- only if you dont have large Fuel can $10 for 6 gal at Walmart..
--- if you need containers for bad fuel, 2.79 buckets at Home depot..
--What I did-- 2005 MkIV w/PD (BEW)
1. Pumped out about 5 gals with hand pump through the filler nozzle. -this is so you can pull the fuel pump without getting fuel all over the back seat area.
2. Removed fuel pump. I use a very large flat head and lever the retatining ring against the cover screw-in tabs.
3. Syphoned the rest of the fuel out of the tank for fuel pump hole.
4. Removed and discard fuel filter.
5. Blow back lines from filter back to tank with air compressor. (you will have to take out the Thermostatic Tee)
6. Wiped out remaining fuel from tank that syphon couldn't get and that was blown back.
7. Re-installed fuel pump (be sure to dump out the bad fuel before replacing)
8. Disconnected return line from IP (Injector Pump) at junction after the hard line. Blow out both lines from filter to IP. Reconnected line.
9. Mixed in about 10 oz of PS additive to the 6 gallons new good diesel
10. Filled and Install Fuel filter, remember to put Thermostatic Tee back in. (Filled filter with new PS/Diesel mix)
11. Put remaining new Diesel/PS mix into tank.
12. Turn key on and allowed pump to run about 10 sec, and did that again, Turned over until it started (about 20 seconds), ran rough for about 10 seconds and has been fine since..
No longer get to drive my loving TDi because I gave up 75 mile commute for a 9 mile one. My son now uses it for school. But I needed it for a long drive to a NFL football game, my first. So I pick up my buddy, go a mile to the gas station. get out, go around the car -forgot to open the fuel door. go back open it, take off the cap and remember that my son never puts in Power Service, go back and open trunk, get power service, put some in, put back and close trunk. Swipe card, and grab handle closest to the ready, open, fuel door, push the worn out button right above where I just got the pump handle from and fill the car to the tippy top.. I always fill up the filler neck.. Get in the car ready to go to the game, ask buddy where we are going to eat and proceed to drive 1.1 miles before the engine dies. Coast into a private gated golfcourse. Now I have had a faulty fuel pump before that I had to replace, which would overheat, so if you waited a while it would start and run for a short time.. Which this did.. ran poorly and had to rev it, but I managed to get away from the golfcourse and down the road a bit, when it died.. so we pushed it about 1/2 mile in the 106 degree AZ heat, to a parking lot where i called the wife, to bring me another car.. When she gets there she asked me what happened and then said -"did you put in Gas instead of Diesel..." and it hit me.. the pump handle was silver and not green.. and it was really clean as I though about it.. Went to the Game, came home and looked through the forums on what to do. Towed the car home the next morning, and proceeded below.
--Had to buy--
1. new fuel filter - $35
2. Hand syphon pump - $12
3. new diesel - $20 initially ($35 after it was running, $6 for PowerService if you don't already have it)
--- only if you dont have large Fuel can $10 for 6 gal at Walmart..
--- if you need containers for bad fuel, 2.79 buckets at Home depot..
--What I did-- 2005 MkIV w/PD (BEW)
1. Pumped out about 5 gals with hand pump through the filler nozzle. -this is so you can pull the fuel pump without getting fuel all over the back seat area.
2. Removed fuel pump. I use a very large flat head and lever the retatining ring against the cover screw-in tabs.
3. Syphoned the rest of the fuel out of the tank for fuel pump hole.
4. Removed and discard fuel filter.
5. Blow back lines from filter back to tank with air compressor. (you will have to take out the Thermostatic Tee)
6. Wiped out remaining fuel from tank that syphon couldn't get and that was blown back.
7. Re-installed fuel pump (be sure to dump out the bad fuel before replacing)
8. Disconnected return line from IP (Injector Pump) at junction after the hard line. Blow out both lines from filter to IP. Reconnected line.
9. Mixed in about 10 oz of PS additive to the 6 gallons new good diesel
10. Filled and Install Fuel filter, remember to put Thermostatic Tee back in. (Filled filter with new PS/Diesel mix)
11. Put remaining new Diesel/PS mix into tank.
12. Turn key on and allowed pump to run about 10 sec, and did that again, Turned over until it started (about 20 seconds), ran rough for about 10 seconds and has been fine since..