watching ice road ts last night. The Canadian chap ran out of fuel. he was towed (with a strap)to the filling station. Is this possible? Without engine, do you have steering, brakes, clutch? These days, can you just fill up without bleeding?
Yeah I saw that, but most of that programme is staged,
If his air was up he could have been towed, but steering would be difficult, and would have brakes until his air ran out
I had a Yank motor with a Cat lump in it & ran out of juice twice, just put the fuel in & cranked it over,
Apparently The Cat engine has a self priming pump, so if you have enough battery, she will start
Toddy2:
Yeah I saw that, but most of that programme is staged,
If his air was up he could have been towed, but steering would be difficult, and would have brakes until his air ran outI had a Yank motor with a Cat lump in it & ran out of juice twice, just put the fuel in & cranked it over,
Apparently The Cat engine has a self priming pump, so if you have enough battery, she will start
Common rail ■■■■■■■ same too like the old 14 litres but depending on how dry they’ve been run they won’t always ■■■■ it up ,on a 14 litre there’s a Allen grub screw on the pump which lets air out sometimes it’s needed to tip fuel in.
Euro:
watching ice road ts last night. The Canadian chap ran out of fuel. he was towed (with a strap)to the filling station. Is this possible? Without engine, do you have steering, brakes, clutch? These days, can you just fill up without bleeding?
You have steering but its damned heavy however the faster you go the lighter it gets. You don’t need a clutch but you do need to unbolt the propshaft. All trucks have a connector fitted somewhere where a recovery truck can connect an airline up to do the brakes.
And remember it was done for TV so will be staged anyway like everything else in that program 
Ya tow it in gear,sorted.
Had a Rover 75 Diesel engine blow up with a full tank of juice in it. It had a self priming pump so just took pipe of fuel pump with ignition on and it siphoned itself 
Towed my mate to a filling station once. We were both in 16t D-series! Late, dark and desperate, we used a rope (we were on marquees). I told him to slow down using the clutch to preserve air but I would take it easy. Well, we made it, from deepest Cheshire to the Chester ring-road and fuel…just!
Ian, if you’re out there, happy Christmas! 
What a load of crap.
They didn’t show him bleeding the fuel system. As we now they don’t start straight away.
Cheers Welly
Is IRT ‘THAT’ bad now…!!! ■■? 
Welly Bobby:
What a load of crap.
They didn’t show him bleeding the fuel system. As we now they don’t start straight away.Cheers Welly
some do, particularly the new commonrail, as long as you get them primed or the filter filled. But traditional diesels, definitely, although it was often not as difficult as some make out … slacken the injector off with the longest feed pipe, crank till it fires, tighten it up, it will probably burp and ■■■■ for a few miles before sorting itself out.
None of the ■■■■■■■ engined trucks we ran needed bleeding, just spun them on the starter and away they eventually went. I regularly towed our broken down trucks laden with no engine power, but on a straight bar of course! Pulled one back to Derbyshire from near Tower Bridge loaded once with a dead engine, take prop off and wind the brakes off. It took a bit of muscle getting it around Ashbourne town centre but all was well.
When I lived in Reading we towed a Bedford in on a rope, the driver of the Bedford kept banging the brakes on and broke the rope twice so we told him to leave them alone. At the next T junction—BANG, he ran straight into our crane and smashed the bonnet and radiator in! 
Pete.
been there pete , i towed a bedford spreader home from loughborough on a hefty wire rope . every time i signalled to slow down he slammed everything on , i think his brake pedal was an off/on switch . he had no idea how to keep the rope tight so we bumped and jerked our way home . he then had the cheek to say i had been so rough that he had to go on the sick with a bad back . i think the glass tube in his back must have cracked . no mention of the fact that all this was only necessary because he’d ripped the prop off in low first . dave