My disco has died !!!

[loony landy]

Went out in it today and it started to idle irratically,then it cut out.  Restarted the engine and it runs ok for a short while then if you select drive it cuts out around 1500rpm.

Checked oils/water/fliuds and all fine there.

Any ideas ??

tony

[lee celtic]

what engine are you running??? 200 300 v8 or mpi???

[loony landy]

Sorry should have said...300tdi.

Think its a fuelling problem, as i went off roading at the weekend and the local land rover guy says he thinks its shaken all the gunk loose in the tank and its gone through the system.

So i will have to clean the sedimenter thingy, change the fuel filter,clean the injectors and then find a way into the tank to clean the pick up.

Does anyone know if there is an inspection hatch on the tank ???

Also how do you clean the injectors ??

[lee celtic]

also check the elbow joints on the sedimentor as these rust through and let air into the system.. if they have gone just cut it out of the system and by pass it with a bit of fuel pipe and two jubilee clips :dance:

I had this a couple of years ago there was enough fuel to start it but one press on the peddle  and it died.... :lol:

[loony landy]

Similar to what its doing now, it starts, runs lumpy then the minute you touch the pedal wnts to cut out then does!

Is the sedimenter not needed then ??

[lee celtic]

I think it's fitted for when the fuel quality is rubish (other countries) but in the uk it should be ok .

I took mine off a few years back and have had no problems . I just cut the fuel lines with a pair of snips and pushed on a peice of 3/8 id fuel pipe and a couple of clips works fine and passed three mot's .

only do it if the steel elbows have rotted if they are ok try cleaning the sedimenter out and check that fuel is getting to the filter .

Take the filter off and pump the lift pump lever with a cup under the filter housing (the price of fuel you don't want to waste it)

[loony landy]

From what others have said it may even be the head gasket or the turbo  :(

In which case i dont think ill bother  :roll: fixing it at all.

[lee celtic]

If the head is bad enough that it wont rev then the oil would be milky white or you'd head a pssss noise in the engine bay ....

If the turbo has gone it would still rev up as the turbo won't  kick in until you hit 2000 rpm anyway and it would just be under powered  ...or you'd have clouds of smoke (james bond smoke screen type smoke)

the fact you say the oil is ok tells me not to listen to others and start with the easy stuff ... Air&fuel

You can even try just filling the fuel filter with fuel and seeing if it revs up if it does bingo .. might even be the lift pump ... but check the free stuff first then the cheap stuff then work your way up ,, Don't start with the doom and gloom expensive stuff it'll only depress you ....always Look on the bright side I say.. :lol:

[loony landy]

It did have a really bad cloud of smoke yesterday when i refilled the oil and started it up also it has been underpower but i thought this was because if the auto box and the old diesel engine lol

[loony landy]

Well things could be looking up abit, looks like i either have crud in my fuel line picked up from the tank after recent off road activity or the injector pump has packed in !!!!

Turbo had no play in it so that was good



just may need to track down a ijector pump


tony

[baron von ledwidge]

have you checked the fuel pump, i had an issue which was similar to this on a 200tdi, the injector pump had stopped working and the engine would idle happily on its own draw from the tank.  But when you accelerated it would cut out due to fuel starvation