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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tazza" data-source="post: 57751" data-attributes="member: 82">Bobcat have made priming very simple for their machies. They installed essentially a boat hand primer inline before the fuel filter. You open the bleed screw on the injector pump where the fuel goes in and pump the hand primer, it bleeds the system for you. I'd suggest you get one of them to give it a test. They are cheap and make priming a breeze.You mentioned you had no fuel out of the lift pump, with the hand primer inline, squeeze it, you should get fuel out of the pump. They can fall apart and get clogged, the hand primer would confirm this for you.If no fuel is getting through, bypass it and run the fuel hose from the filter straight to the injector pump (never run it without a filter inline), keep the bleed screw open and pump the hand primer till it feels smooth and no bubbles can be felt. Close the bleed screw, give the hand primer a good squeeze so it is firm, get someone to crank the engine and keep squeezing, see if it fires. The hand primer will act as a lift pump while you have by-passed it.As Dan said, ensure the fuel shut off solenoid is working too. It should have a lever on the side of the block, just below the injector pump. It could be cable driven or with an electric solenoid with 3 wires hanging off it. It must not be in the stop position or no fuel will get to the injectors.Hopefully that is somewhere to start.</blockquote>