Bongo Fury

help just changed fuel filter re started engine ran for a while then stopped. took filter off again no fuel in filter any ideas

Did you fill the new filter with fuel before fitting?

If your fuel filter body does not have a primer pump on the top (lots don't), then it can take a full minute or more of cranking to start with a dry filter. Filling with fuel first should reduce the time.

haydn callow wrote:Did you fill the new filter with fuel before fitting?

no ,have change filter many times befor and never filled with fuel befor

Diesel or petrol? If the former, keep spinning it over on the starter and assuming you don't have a leak around the filter seal, it should eventually start. If petrol, turn ignition on and off a few times to allow the fuel pump to repressurise the fuel lines.

Simon Jones wrote:Diesel or petrol? If the former, keep spinning it over on the starter and assuming you don't have a leak around the filter seal, it should eventually start. If petrol, turn ignition on and off a few times to allow the fuel pump to repressurise the fuel lines.

put disel in filter now runs should have known better

I guess you have a diesel engine then . Glad it's all sorted now. For next time, fill the empty filter with some injector cleaner to give the system a good clean out when it starts up.