Through years of experience with air leaks and low fuel I've learned how to bleed my 3HM35F quickly. On mine there is simply no need to touch any of the bleed screws. The entire system is almost self priming. When I was buying the boat we had a mechanic working on the engine and he said that he never used the bleed screws, they strip out too easily. Instead he uses the banjo fittings. This can be nearly as bad as stripping the bleed screws since the banjo fittings rely on copper washer gaskets which are supposed to be one time use. That being said on multiple occasions one of the bleed screws has come loose of been stripped resulting in an engine shutdown and a scramble to establish control of the boat. I now have the culprit bleed screw epoxy puddied in place. On the extremely unlikely chance that I need to bleed I will loosen the banjo fitting. In this case it is the fitting that attaches the hard fuel pipe directly to the HP injection pump.
Bear in mind that I have a second 3HM35F in my garage and have successfully primed it without loosening fittings or bleed screws as well so my experience with the boat isn't just a one off. https://youtu.be/mdHIt14l0R8 https://youtu.be/H-GI38vE4hQ I have a priming bulb in the supply line from the tank. It has much higher capacity and as such works way better than the lift pump for priming/bleeding the engine. While you're trying to get the engine primed, you should also be using the decompression levers to reduce load on the starter and spin the engine faster. This will get more fuel to the injectors and faster. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Aug 6, 2017 4:02 PM, "svpegasus38 via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > A friend in the club has a LF38 with a 3gm yanmar. Ran it out of fuel, now > can't get it bled. We have fuel to the last chance fuel filter, but I can't > find the bleed screw on the injector pump. Have tried to bleed the injector > lines at the injectors to no avail. > Anybody familiar with this we would love to hear. > Thanks in advance. > > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > Doug Mountjoy > POYC > Pegasus > Lf38 > Rebecca Leah > LF39 > > _______________________________________________ > > This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you > wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All Contributions are greatly appreciated! > >
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