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7. Keep the fuel clean. Handle it with
extreme care because water and dirt
in fuel cause more trouble and ser-
vice life of the injection system is
reduced.
8. Do not allow fuel to run low, because
fuel intake
may be uncovered long
enough to allow air to enter the
injection system, resulting in engine
stoppage requiring
system bleeding.
9.
Do not be alarmed if temperature
gauges show a high reading following
a
sudden stop after engine has been
operating at full load. This is
caused by the release of residual heat
from the heavy metal masses near the
combustion chamber. Prevention for
this is to run engine at idle for a
short period before stopping
it. High
temperature reading after a stop does
not necessarily signal alarm against
restarting. If there is no functional
difficulty, temperatures will quickly
return to
normal when engine is operat-
ing.
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