How to bleed a Ford transit 2.5 fuel - Cars & Trucks

I think you should go for manual first after that it would be easy for you to solve your problem. I had visited this site past 2 months before for my vehicle and find it quite helpful may be you will also get something useful here
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Try new fuel , make sure the engine don't need bleeding ,and test the glow plugs with a multimetre good luck colin

Only from the dealer parts dept.

Hi, You need to connect a hand priming pump between the fuel supply pipe & the fuel filter keep squeezing the pump until it becomes firm. continue squeezing the priming bulb durin engine cranking.

fuel pump not working or deisel pump if you go some one who can diagnose the van they can tell you but its 1 out of these 2

Try loosening the pipe off at the injectors and crank engine over.

It wont start unless you do something we call bleed. There is a small screw on the side of the injector pump you have to pull those and pump the lift pump/fuel pump untill all the air leaves the pump the close them and start.

Did you bleed the diesel fuel system? diesels need to be bled.

This is the location of fuel filter ,hope help.

The age of this transit should be a self bleeding system. But if not, you will see some metal tubes running into the cylinder head, with nuts at the end. Loosen these and crank the engine over until fuel spurts through. You will only need to do 2 or 3 to get the engine started.
I have personally used a damp start spray, in the air inlet to fire up diesel trucks before and not needed to bleed the system at all. Worth a try, just open up the air filter and squirt some into the inlet, crank it over and it should start.