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  1. As a side note too, I just found out that if you take off too soon in your truck before it gets up to temp you will get an "Engine temp too low" error on the dash. Not too sure how these exhaust brakes work, but apparently they don't like cold engines. NOTE: I do pretty much always warm my truck up.
  2. Ok. I changed my spin-on fuel filter this morning and afterwards pumped till my arm hurt, lol. Took about 60 pumps and I could feel the difference and the truck fired right up. Probably wishful thinking that a filter change would fix my leak, but I like to try the easy stuff before throwing parts at it. At least now I feel more comfortable with the manual priming procedure until I find the leak.
  3. Thanks Jack. I will pump it more to see if I get better results. I usually pump it about 10-15 times and the truck will stumble to a start but the primer pump never felt like it was moving fuel so I thought perhaps the pump itself wasn't sealing well. Now that I know 100 pumps might be required, I will try that. I have heard those filter housing/pump assemblies can be troublesome. All,. Thanks for the other ideas. I replaced the Davco filter and o-rings yesterday. It was time for them anyway. Today I am going to replace the spin-on filter and play with the primer pump more. I am in Albuquerque this week near the Volvo dealer so I really want to get this resolved before heading back out into the desert!
  4. The past couple weeks my truck has become hard to start. After sitting for a few days I have to resort to manually priming it with the plunger on the fuel filter housing. I kind of suspect this primer and fuel filter housing might also be the source of my air leak. I have a question about this primer plunger.... How many pumps are you supposed to do? Is the resistance on the plunger supposed to increase as air is forced out because I don't notice any difference in the feel of the plunger. I see fuel/air bubble out from a hole next to the primer plunger. Normal?
  5. Pulled into the Fort Stockton, TX Walmart tonight with our 2007 Volvo HDT and there was not one, but TWO other rigs there. Both nice setups. https://photos.app.goo.gl/6x9UD5Zr1HVNJ4q82 https://photos.app.goo.gl/rrL2mBrgkq2Yxgxw1
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