MERLO P25.6, Instruction Manual

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6 - ORDINARY MAINTENANCE
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• HOW TO START ENGINE WHEN BATTERY IS DOWN
CAUTION! Before working on the battery, carefully read the
instructions found in paragraph "BATTERY" and in chapter "ELECTRIC
SYSTEM". Check polarity before connecting the cables. Avoid any
contact between the two cables.
Should you start the engine with the battery down, act as follows:
1) Take an emergency battery having the same characteristics and two cables.
2) Connect the cable to the (+) and (-) of the battery inside the machine and,
then, to the correspondent (+) and (-) of the emergency battery.
3) Start the engine and disconnect the cables.
• EMERGENCY PUMP FAILS TO RELEASE PARKING BRAKE
Shouldn't it be possible to release the parking brake using the emergency pump,
act as follows (see paragraph "TOWING OF THE MACHINE" in the section
"OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS"):
-
chock the wheels to lock the machine in place
- hold the brake caliper chamber (A) still
- fully loosen the adjusting screw (B)
Before restarting the vehicle tighten the adjusting screw and check the system
correct working.
• BLEEDING OF THE MOTOR FEEDING SYSTEM
The bleeding of the feeding system is necessary to remove the air present into the system when you are run out of fuel.
Once you have refuelled up the tank, carry out the following operations:
-
loosen unions "A", "B", "C" and "D"
- activate manually the pump "P" until fuel without air comes out from unions.
- tighten unions "A", "B", "C" and "D"
- go on pressing the pump "P" and, in the meantime, start the motor by turning the ignition key (8) present in the cab.
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