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Christian McArdle Christian McArdle is offline
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Default Diesel starting problem

The pump is an extremely sensitive precision instrument that gets the
fuel up to about 1800 bar.


ITYM 1800 PSI, or abour 120 bar.


Nope. 1800 bar, or about 27,000 PSI. Very dangerous stuff. A leak can squirt
out with such force that it can slice right into the human body.

Different designs use different pressures. They're pretty much all above
1000 bar, and some new designs are now edging 2000 bar.

Christian.