Thread: 300tdi power steering pump

The pumps are the same, I thought.
The bracket needs to come off.
Removing the fan and shroud is the key, then its easy.
I'm going to Redcliffe to pick up a short motor @ 8.30 , I could swing by and give you a hand on the way back.( I've got a fan spanner in the ute)

Originally Posted by jboot51

The pumps are the same, I thought.
The bracket needs to come off.
Removing the fan and shroud is the key, then its easy.
I'm going to Redcliffe to pick up a short motor @ 8.30 , I could swing by and give you a hand on the way back.( I've got a fan spanner in the ute)

I will be home but need to pack the camper as we are leaving at 11....picked up a work car this morning.

Big thanks to jboot51 and Paul........

They popped around and got me going while I packed the camper......I felt a little guilty packing and sticking my head in every now and than.

Would you believe I started having fuel problems at the bottom of the hill......car won't idle, coughs and farts. We manage to get to woodford and back just. It sits on 100km/hr just fine low speed or idle just doesn't happen.

She is parked up in the same spot with bonnet up and me scratching my head.

Fuel sediment bowl was clean ish
Fuel filter looks OK

Off to buy a new fuel filter, drain what's left in the tank and go from there.

Definitely owe you guys a beer......

You're welcome weeds.
we got a little lost on the way out, quite a maze of streets.


With your fuel problem I'd say check the connection on the fuel stop solenoid, could be a little dirty.

blow back the fuel lines, you might have snot blocking them.

IF that happens to fix it your going to have to pull the head off of the tank to clean it out. if you get lucky removing and cleaning the sedimentor and adding about 1l petrol 500ml metho at the start of each fill might just get it to move on for you.

Well what a marathon this arvo along with a comedy of errors.

I'm up and running.........so that good

Ok.....would you believe I have never had the sediment bowl off the car as I do the servicing I can vouch for it. Eight or nine years of ownership and 200 000km I would have been lucky to fill cap of a coke bottle with what was in the bottom of the bowl......I was expecting the worse but was please toy surprised. It's had heaps of diesel from steel jerry cans poured in as well.

So sediment bowl back on.

New fuel filter fitted, I have after market one fitted where it has a cartridge filter with big glass bowl and than a metal bottom. The new cartridge is one o-ring short.

I get excited and crank the car, it self bleeds pretty quick and idles......but than starts coughing til it finally stalls. I than realise I didn't drain the fuel tank and put 20L fresh diesel in...am now kicking myself as I just fitted a new filter.

So I than drain and discard 20-30L diesel.

I than focus on change the lift pump, had a new one laying around. Pretty straight forward. Although I dropped one of the olives on the grass, you think I could find it...........nope. So off to super cheap only to find they do not do olives. I ring a guy from work and he has a champion kit of olives....1/2 drive I grab the kit......only to realise when I get back that's it's imperial......you guess it I need metric. The guy from work actually dropped me back (long story) so he helps me look for the olive, we gave hope until he picks the olive up which was a good 2m from the drop zone on concrete. Happy hap joy joy. He heads off and I finish the lift pump..........all excited I start the car again and it idles perfect, after awhile I start texting the world. Just after I hit send cough cough and a fine stalls again.

I think at the stage I'm ready to set fire to it.

Than I see I slight drip from a fuel line....well buffer me it's rubbed a hole in itself. So I manage to shorten it, stupid rock hard plastic fuel hose. Get excited and start her up again...cough cough runs a bit than coughs

After a bit of fiddling I get it running with a bit of a miss....decide to drive around a corner to a other land rover nutter but if cough and splutters all the way. We spent 1/2hr bleeding and checking things and come to the conclusion it might the the injector pump.

We had it idling ok ish so a used low range as anytime I touch the pedal it would die. 1/2 late to travel 400m I thought I had killed the engine.

As I limp into the driveway I see the jerry can of diesel that I purchased 3hr earlier.........would you believe I didn't replace the fuel I drain from the fuel tank.

20L in and the defender purrs........into life. Un ****ing believable, I cannot believe I drove 800m without fuel.

So a small pin hole in a fuel line was the cause.......

would you also believe that's it's had to wind over longer than normal before it starts (on and off) for the last eighteen months.......me thinks this has been the problem all along. Strangest thing is it's never left diesel on the driveway.

Em very happy my fuel system was nice and clean.

Why would it do 100km/hr but not idle??

The thanks is for letting me know I'm not the only one to suffer from myself