I have a Toyota Corolla diesel (S reg) and I have reason to believe that there is a partial blockage in the fuel line. I have been told that there may be some kind of coarse filter in the fuel tank and that this may be partially blocked.
Does anyone know anything about this. Is there such a filter and, if so, is there some way of getting at it to clean it or remove it?
With thanks,
Gerry
To remove it just stick a dirty great screwdriver down the pipe flange on the tank.
OK, thanks for this. Do you mean the pipe for filling the tank? If so, I have looked down it with a torch and I can see that it has a bend in it and there is no filter gauze before the bend. It sounds as if I need something that will go round the bend and will still be stiff enough to poke through the gauze.
Gerry
OK, thanks for this. Do you mean the pipe for filling the tank? If so, I have looked down it with a torch and I can see that it has a bend in it and there is no filter gauze before the bend. It sounds as if I need something that will go round the bend and will still be stiff enough to poke through the gauze.
Gerry
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Gerry" saying something like:
Lift the back seat and the top of the tank sender _might_ be accessible. It is on my SOJC (Carina).
Many thanks. I'll have a look.
Gerry
Its not under the back seat. The car is an estate car and the tank seems to be somewhere under the luggage compartment behind the back seat. I can trace the filler pipe to somewhere in that direction but then it disappears. It is somewhere near the well in which the spare tyre is stored. I'll keep looking!
Gerry
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Gerry" saying something like:
Mine's an estate too. Not saying the layout's the same, since they're two different models and separated by a few years, but on mine, when I took out the rear seat there was a hardboard/foam floor panel on the floor behind the seat. In that was a cutout which revealed the sender unit. The tank is under the floor just behind the seat and in front of the spare wheel well.
I'm assuming your original question related to the fuel pickup pipe coming from the tank and not the filler pipe.
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