Hi fellow members
I have a 55 plate Clk 270 cdi & I am having problems with the diesel getting to the engine. I recently drained the diesel tank as I had some contaminated fuel in the diesel tank by taking off both of the round cover on the fuel tank & inserting a pipe to suck all the fuel out I then put in 25 litres of clean fuel & ran the car for a while then today the car cut out & would not start & we noticed that the diesel was not getting through & the so we put on a manual inline pump that you press & it pumps the diesel through & the car started but when we took off the manual pump & put the pipes back on the car would not start so we took out the back seat & took off both the round covers on the diesel tank & noticed that the drivers side half of the tank was empty but the passenger side half was full (the diesel tank is like a saddle bag shape with two halves which are connected) so we put some diesel in through the filler which went into the drivers side half of the tank & the car started up & ran no problem but I am now worried about taking the car out in case the same thing happens & the diesel goes from the drivers side & the car cuts out as it seems to be that the diesel feed to the engine is supplied from the drivers side half of the tank but somehow the diesel is not coming over from the passenger side half of the tank? We have had both the sender unit on the passenger side & the drivers side unit out of the tank to see if the connecting pipes were blocked etc but they all seem ok.
I have a 55 plate Clk 270 cdi & I am having problems with the diesel getting to the engine. I recently drained the diesel tank as I had some contaminated fuel in the diesel tank by taking off both of the round cover on the fuel tank & inserting a pipe to suck all the fuel out I then put in 25 litres of clean fuel & ran the car for a while then today the car cut out & would not start & we noticed that the diesel was not getting through & the so we put on a manual inline pump that you press & it pumps the diesel through & the car started but when we took off the manual pump & put the pipes back on the car would not start so we took out the back seat & took off both the round covers on the diesel tank & noticed that the drivers side half of the tank was empty but the passenger side half was full (the diesel tank is like a saddle bag shape with two halves which are connected) so we put some diesel in through the filler which went into the drivers side half of the tank & the car started up & ran no problem but I am now worried about taking the car out in case the same thing happens & the diesel goes from the drivers side & the car cuts out as it seems to be that the diesel feed to the engine is supplied from the drivers side half of the tank but somehow the diesel is not coming over from the passenger side half of the tank? We have had both the sender unit on the passenger side & the drivers side unit out of the tank to see if the connecting pipes were blocked etc but they all seem ok.