Thread: Fomoco injector pumps etc.

Hello everyone

Mate of mine with his 2.2 has had his injector pump come apart inside and drop FOD and Micro FOD throughout his fuel system. I am not yet aware of the cause of failure, crook heat treatment, crook internal plating, contaminated fuel, whatever. The bits have distributed themselves through the tanks, fuel lines, injectors and everything else. Because the bits are from visual to microscopic the whole fuel system needs to be replaced - no guarantee that al the metal is out of the system. Big Bucks!

To add insult to injury JRLA has no pumps or other critical bits in country. My mate has now been sitting on his derrier in Cairns for over a fortnight waiting for bits to come from UK....................and Urgent! Mmmmmmmm!

Anyway, that is all an ongoing story that will eventually sort itself out and with mate saying he has had gutful of JRLA and customer support, may well be a late model 2.2 110 with new fuel system coming up on the market shortly.

However, that all begs the question FOMOCO Ford Transit engine fuel system parts???????

Plenty of transits out there, plenty of Ford dealers selling Transit engine parts. Transits off the road cost money! Ford must carry the parts....................and price re JLRA prices??? Probably wouldn't matter if Ford have them and JLRA don't.

Would seem to me that our FOMOCO ECUs couldn't really give a damn whether the injectors and pumps and other control bits are in a Transit or a Deffie, and those ECUs are software controllable.

So, are we able to use Ford parts from a Ford dealer to fix our Ford engines?

Looking forward to an answer or three.

Cheers

RF

i can only speak for my experience. I run a Ford Transit 2.4 in my D130. I didn't do the install so can't say if the ECU is LR or Ford. I assume its the Ford unit because it would be more hassle to recode the LR one for the Ford transit engine than to plug in the Ford ECU and carry over all the coding and injector codes. Since the transplant I've installed BAS engine tune and it runs with no faults and no real hiccups between the BAS (LR) coding and if it is a Ford ECU. No interface problems with the BCU. I've in the past fitted a Ford genuine SCV and pressure control valve on the LR derived 2.4. With the Transit engine i fitted a new LR engine harness and injector harness. The SCV is common to about 30 engines across the Ford/Peugeot/LR range/some Nissans and others. The injector pump between the 2.4 and 2.2 are different but both common between Ford and LR in both engines variants. That would say to me that the sensors are common between the engines and same with the pump.

The microcat schematics of the Ford transit are not common to the LR schematics. I have stood over the service parts guy at Ford and pointed to the parts i want.

In Europe Ford has an engine assembly plant in Turkey and I believe LR assembled their engines in the UK. That was the case for earlier engines in the 2.4 range. Whether the later 2.2's came from Turkey i don't know. If you buy a crate long block from any of the aftermarket resellers you are buying a block from the Turkey plant.

Long and short, don't limit yourself to JLR dealers and aftermarket suppliers. You will find many parts common with Ford and Peugeot diesels.