little puppy Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Hi, have a 2011 pinnacle mp8, it's sucking air and leaking fuel around the plunger shaft ? Can this be rebuilt or do you have to replace the whole filter housing? Does it require anything special to do it? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackpro Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Gotta change the whole thing. No special tools really, stubby wrenches help. Just be sure to put the lines and fittings back in the same place. One fitting is actually a check valve and it will also fit in other places and cause problems. The primer pump is replaceable on the newer common rail engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 So no way to replace seals in the hand primer? That sucks, about his long sound it take to swap out? Thanks again for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Yup they encourage you to pump that bitch 200 pumps after a filter change! Now you know why ! so they can sell you a whole new expensive housing and 3 hours of labor ! oh joy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackpro Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 On a Friday afternoon at 4:00 , yea I can do one in an hour! Lol. For a first timer , 2-3 hours. The skinner you are the easier it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 He's heading your way pro!😂 I find it amusing that Cummins can install a nice little ELECTRIC primer pump and no one else has thought to go there! Not a Cummins lover how ever they at least addressed the need to prime and keep the fuel system clean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Along with the rest of domestic manufacturers like Deere and Cat who install electric primers. Europeans dig cheap, low tech, hand pumps? If Volvo installed an electric primer they might get an extra year of life out of each injector once they start to bubble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Mack Technician said: Along with the rest of domestic manufacturers like Deere and Cat who install electric primers. Europeans dig cheap, low tech, hand pumps? If Volvo installed an electric primer they might get an extra year of life out of each injector once they start to bubble. Even the leading Chinese heavy truck makers have made electric primers standard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 3 hours ago, kscarbel2 said: Even the leading Chinese heavy truck makers have made electric primers standard. Now THAT’S ironic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 Is there a way to bypass it in a emergency to get back home? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackpro Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 There are so many passage ways inside the filter stands on the MP engines, it would be hard to bypass the primary side of the fuel filter stand. We talked about changing a fuel filter stand on here yesterday and guess what I had to do today? Yep , filter stand. We have 2 CXN’s , 3 CXP’s and about 18 CXU’s and one Anthem. Had low fuel pressure in one of the CXU’s . There was something going on inside the filter stand. Start to finish a little over 3 hours. Including troubleshooting, r&r filter stand, pressure wash before and after repair and test drive with laptop plugged in . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Well i stand corrected every body else has electric and Volvo Can't seem to get it! They can tech the shit out of everything else thou!😡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 This truck is a about to drive me bat shit crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 This truck is a about to drive me bat shit crazy You guys look at this est. and tell me if any part of it sounds reasonable. As far as the silicon boots, the shop Forman said ( the tech could best it leaking when he started the truck ) I want to meet the tech that can hear a leak in the air 2 air cooler with the engine running at idle under no pressure?..... Estimate_10828459_v1.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 24 minutes ago, little puppy said: This truck is a about to drive me bat shit crazy You guys look at this est. and tell me if any part of it sounds reasonable. As far as the silicon boots, the shop Forman said ( the tech could best it leaking when he started the truck ) I want to meet the tech that can hear a leak in the air 2 air cooler with the engine running at idle under no pressure?..... Estimate_10828459_v1.pdf Did you ask if they pressurized the intake system? terry 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I’d make sure i was present to see those soap bubbles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 Lmao the tech claimed to hear it leaking at idle..... no offense to you guys on here, but they were blooming idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 Lmao the tech claimed to hear it leaking at idle..... no offense to you guys on here, but they were blooming idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 They didn't pressure test anything, click on the link and read the estimate they wrote me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little puppy Posted January 18, 2019 Author Share Posted January 18, 2019 Oh I had a fit, and they weren't my first choice, lol was my only choice when it started sucking air so bad it wouldn't run in Albuquerque NM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Well if you use Pros flat rate time they roughly charged you 290 bucks an hour to change the filter stand ! nice shop rate ! 😡Wish we could charge that Id be rich! Quite honestly its a shitty job much like everything else on these engines shit in the way,, cramped area to work in. (Cramped areas) We just did an EGR Cooler on an 8 yesterday we tried a different method rather than removing the turbo and stuff we jacked up the front of the engine worked fairly well , saved breaking turbo studs an all the other screw ups that go along with that job ,cut the time by a third or so Worth trying in my mind! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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