Exactly as lynall says above. Just fill the filter before you screw it in (not with all the crud poured out of the old filter!) and start it up.
If... You have no clean diesel to fill the new filter with, you need to mess about with the lift...
Fill new filter with diesel, refit filter, start it and allow to tick over for a minute or two, you will hear any air go through as it might misfire slightly for a few seconds then will run clear.
The bosch ve pump is very good at self bleeding...
He's already made his bed, by buying it.
May as well advise him from here on in.
There was a post on another forum from a chap thinking about buying a range rover classic. I've been doing my best to try and convince him not to.
But the OPs...
If its been run that day, but allowed to cool, does it then start in just the same way, or better?
If "better" i would suggest it could be somthing as simple as injector leak offs. If they get holes in them you get air come in when its not...
The table i inserted was a clickable link to the comparison site.
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Not a great deal at all at present. Ive owned it 20+ years, and it was set up as a camper - but then we had a kid, and its been mostly been stationary since.
Id like...
Island are still my go-to supplier.
Ive not ordered for, probably 3 months now, but ive never stopped ordering from them.
As i have said before, they are not always easy to get hold of, but they have never wronged me in all the years ive been...