Ok today seemed like a Good day to do a diesel purge!!!
I began by assembling my hoses and Lubrimoly purge. You can see my set up which worked perfectly except I had to add the clamp on the connection between the prefilter piece I bought from MB for about 20$ or so. Well worth it in my case I think. I simply disconnected the tank feed from fuel heater at the fuel filter housing and plugged in the new shirt line as you can see. The large clear vinyl line connected with a clamp is a bit too large a diameter because it takes a lot of purge to fill it. Next time I might try to find a way to neck down. I then released the return line and connected a short length of a line I had to heat and stretch to fit the diameter of the return fitting. It was all I had in hand and trying to respect the stay home request could not go out Tibet different more flexible line. These two lines were placed in a clear plastic clean dry Evian water bottle found in the street !!
I videoed the cold start and nailing sound that I was thinking is what the purge might correct. Tomorrow I will video a cold start and see if it has improved things. I think it did smooth some things out.
It was interesting to see how much fuel/ purge bypasses back to the reservoir of purge. Also to see the fine bubbles in the purge.
It took a bit of cranking to get it going and would have been easier if I had added the hose clamp at the beginning.
Hope the following photo is of interest.
I tried to add a video but could not figure it out. If I do I will add it.