More Eber Woes

[trucker]

My D2L Cuts out randomly after a couple of min's sometimes after an hour or so, also it can get quite smoky sometimes with unburnt fuel dripping from the exhaust.
I have checked the interior air intake and hot air outlet pipes for blockages also the combustion air intake and exhaust, I replaced the interior air intake pipe as the original had collapsed and looked like it was restricting the air flow, the heater seems to be getting hotter now but still the original smoking/cutting out problems persist. I've noticed also that it tends to cut out when the pump sounds like it's slowing down.
Is it a question of taking it off the van and stripping it down or have I missed something obvious.
One more question, is there anywhere I can buy a replacement combustion air intake pipe with the silencer? On my Westy it terminates inside a chassis crossmember and the end of the pipe that pokes through the hole has gone a bit crumbly and I'm having a devil of a job getting the end back through the hole with out crushing it and making my problems worse.
Thanks

Paul


Edited: getting the model right would help (or perhaps that's my problem, petrol one running on diesel )

[pirate-pete]

One here that is the same part no as specified for most d2l heaters.

http://www.pfjones.co.uk/eberspacher-ai ... R9JXhEgGSM

[trucker]

Thanks for the reply, I will order one if I can get it running reliably (for the moment I have left it disconnected from the chassis so I can be sure that enough air is getting into the intake.) Next stop lots of reading through old threads to give me some ideas of where to look next

[Mocki]

It maybe worth checking the filter mesh around the glow pin , when my ancient DL1C did this the mesh was blocked and was stopping the fuel vaporising correctly , I tried to take it out to clean it but it was stuck, so I got a bit nasty with it and have it a dousing with thinners and then blow lamped it . Do not try this at home folks!!

[trucker]

It maybe worth checking the filter mesh around the glow pin , when my ancient DL1C did this the mesh was blocked and was stopping the fuel vaporising correctly , I tried to take it out to clean it but it was stuck, so I got a bit nasty with it and have it a dousing with thinners and then blow lamped it . Do not try this at home folks!!

Cheers for the reply Steve but I think I read somewhere that D2Ls haven't got a filter mesh there but I will have look when it comes off tomorrow, I was thinking of replacing the glow pin and having a look at the filter in the fuel pump not sure the fuel pump filter would make any difference though as I would've thought the unburnt diesel dripping out of the exhaust means there is enough fuel getting through?
I fancy a go at the blow torch and thinners approach anyway
"Yes I know chief fire officer but a bloke called Mocki told me to do it"

[Mocki]

Hehehe, no I told you not to!!
I have no experience of the heater you have, I was just going on mine!
The filter in the pump will show the symptoms of a empty fuel tank if its blocked, it is on the inlet side if the pump and so tops all fuel low if it gets blocked.

Dripping fuel from the exhaust infers too much is getting through, and it is possible to check the calibration of the pump , download the manual from the download section of the 8090 web space