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Barry Rooker · 09-23-2011, 03:24 PM

Just a reminder about something I forgot and it cost me $500.

We'd been parked in Indio for nearly four months and it was time to head for home. But the engine wouldn't fire. It would crank but not fire. Having had the same situation some years before I quickly diagnosed this as crank position sensor failure.

I had watched the tech change the sensors years before & I had a set of spares. but I couldn't find one of them on the engine. I even took pictures to help look behind the engine air compressor to look where I couldn't see. After failiing to find a local mechanic who could come & install my parts, I located a road service mechanic. He came, saw that there wasn't fuel visible in the filter, he loosened the air tubing, shot in some ether & fired it right up! I had failed to check the filter and too quickly came up with my incorrect diagnosis.

Then I had also failed to recall that our wonderful Newells are equipped with a priming pump at the fuel tank. I could have re-primed the filter on my own. What a dummy!

Don't forget that priming pump.

09-23-2011, 03:24 PM	#1
Barry Rooker Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 64	Lost Prime Just a reminder about something I forgot and it cost me $500. We'd been parked in Indio for nearly four months and it was time to head for home. But the engine wouldn't fire. It would crank but not fire. Having had the same situation some years before I quickly diagnosed this as crank position sensor failure. I had watched the tech change the sensors years before & I had a set of spares. but I couldn't find one of them on the engine. I even took pictures to help look behind the engine air compressor to look where I couldn't see. After failiing to find a local mechanic who could come & install my parts, I located a road service mechanic. He came, saw that there wasn't fuel visible in the filter, he loosened the air tubing, shot in some ether & fired it right up! I had failed to check the filter and too quickly came up with my incorrect diagnosis. Then I had also failed to recall that our wonderful Newells are equipped with a priming pump at the fuel tank. I could have re-primed the filter on my own. What a dummy! Don't forget that priming pump.