Thread: Joining The Club!

Originally Posted by Comet

Well, I bought the vehicle!

I’m currently making room for it at home and cleaning up the shed.

Then I’ll work on getting it running and drive it home where I can continue getting it back to roadworthy condition,

part of me wants to do a full overhaul and the other part just wants it on the road and enjoying it ASAP

Just my 2c,

a vehicle that had been off the road for a while will develop a number of issues that a frequently used one will not, as such it is probably hard to work out what to replace.

Either way, being able to run it and drive it will provide really useful feedback as to what needs doing.

We bought a 300 tdi ex cfs unit with about 30k km on it, using on light duty for a few weeks revealed several issues, unsurprisingly most were oil seals that had perished.

A bit of light use will reveal the path to be taken..

As before...just my 2c.

Cheers
James

Not specific advice, but if you want to get some entertainment and a bit of a feel for getting old stuff running, try watching a couple of Diesel specific videos of "Junkyard Digs" on YouTube.

He is based in Iowa in the US, but he basically goes around getting old junk thats been sitting for YEARS up and running again, sometimes to the point of driving, sometimes just running, it's pretty popular as well so his videos aren't bad. Have a browse through the channel, find some diesel trucks, he gets a pair of tow trucks running, one is a 7.3 IDI and the other is a 7.3 Powerstroke, ok nothing like a Landrover but, it will highlight differences in diesel pumps and nuances of getting a diesel going.

Watching a couple might give you a bit of confidence or ideas of questions to ask like "is it a crank to prime motor or do i have to manually prime somehow" which is commonly the biggest hurdle, the IDI takes some priming to get it to go, when they finally prime it completely, it just fires. Whereas the Powerstroke motor is a different system and cranking the motor eventually primes the injectors.

There will be a bunch of issues raise there head no doubt but also bear in mind it was most likely parked for some major enough reason (despite what the owner says) as you'll find if you watch enough episodes of Junkyard Digs each vehicle has it's story of how it got to sitting for years and unless its obvious, then it could be something engine related.