I have a 2002 BF 130 that has been trouble free until this weekend. It just quit while cruising at 3200 rpm, finally got it to a dock to tie up and determined that it was a fuel problem. Got it home and found that the primary pump on top of the valve cover is pumping fine, but the main high pressure pump is dead. Even gave it 12 volts after I removed it and nothing happens. Have new pump on the way, but here is the problem I have now found.
There is a filter or strainer it is called inline with the high pressure pump, between the pump and the fuel rail. When I removed it, the gas that I poured out the top side of the filter was black with small particles. I looked at these particles under a microscope and found that many of them are microns in size. They are non metallic, but there are a few partilcles that look to be aluminum. This tells me that the fuel rail and injectors are full of this stuff as there is nothing else in between to take them out.
I am going to order a new strainer, as I do not think one can get all this stuff out of the old one, but what to do with the fuel rail and injectors. Can they be cleaned, and not replaced? I hate to think what replacing them will cost, as the pump was almost $400.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
There is a filter or strainer it is called inline with the high pressure pump, between the pump and the fuel rail. When I removed it, the gas that I poured out the top side of the filter was black with small particles. I looked at these particles under a microscope and found that many of them are microns in size. They are non metallic, but there are a few partilcles that look to be aluminum. This tells me that the fuel rail and injectors are full of this stuff as there is nothing else in between to take them out.
I am going to order a new strainer, as I do not think one can get all this stuff out of the old one, but what to do with the fuel rail and injectors. Can they be cleaned, and not replaced? I hate to think what replacing them will cost, as the pump was almost $400.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.