Just went thru this with my 1490 because the fuel gauge doesn't work. Get the battery on a charger. Fill the tank. Forget the hand pump, it's horseshit. You can take an inner tube with a valve and wrap around gas filler spout, duct tape or zip tie and shoot a few pounds of air in there. Next, and this is key!!!!!, unhook the line from the handpump into the tank, (make sure it's not the return line) and blow it out with air, blow back into tank because when you run her dry, crap gets sucked into the line and clogs it. loosen injector pump bleed screw and crank the engine until fuel shoots out. Now loosen a couple of the injector lines up top, (Not the return lines) pick the easy ones and really loosen them up. Now crank the engine until fuel is pouring out. You will see bubbles of air. Have someone stand by with a can of starting fluid and when she starts to pop and you see a bit of smoke out the exhaust have them give her a shot with air filter removed. It will start running and get stronger, have them keep shooting fluid until it runs only on diesel and then snug up the loose injector lines. I am going to stress again that the key is to blow back into the tank from the very start and clear the line otherwise you will never get enough fuel to start, getting fuel is easy, getting enough to start is critical, it should be a fairly strong stream from whatever line you have open. Don't be afraid to crack lines open and crank that engine continuously to get fuel flowing. A word of caution on the injector pump bleed screw, it can go flying and get lost so don't make it too loose.
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