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Why do you need to bleed a diesel?

Updated: 10/22/2022
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Diesel engines work in a different way to petrol in that they work on pressure to ignite warm diesel as opposed to petrol engines which have spark plugs.

in order to work, there can be no air, air wont ignite!!

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