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I would of thought so!! i think to access the pump there is an inspection plate in the boot or you have to make one to look......
but wait for someone who knows what there talking about to give you a better idea...I have never personally had this problem so only writing what I have read.
I think Dullbird might be talking about the connectors at the diesel injection pump, I also remember some recent talk about them.
Not 100% sure, but I think it is a spade connector or two that comes loose on the pump in the engine bay on the drivers side.
Check all electrical connections to the pump and tighten as necessary.
changed the fuel filter this morning! Bit full of gunk. Weighed abit compared to the new filter. Had a Delphi 496A on there, but changed that for a Ryco. Runs fine. Changed the oil and checked the diffs g/box a t/fer as well. All seem okay. I appear to have a little bit of a leak on a powersteering hose though.. Bit of a bugger!
Your Disco doesn't have a fuel pump in the tank. There is the injector pump next to the engine and the little fuel lift pump mounted on the right hand side of the block. The lift pump can fail, with little symptoms initially as the injector pump usually manages to draw a sufficient amount of fuel anyway, but in certain circumstances, such as an incline for instance, it fails to do so.
As for the connectors, if your vehicle has manual transmission, the injection pump is a mechanical one, with automatic transmission an electric injection pump was fitted.
I am glad to learn you solved your problem, mate!!!
Cheers
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Originally Posted by Jojo
Yeah cheers mate. I was fairly sure that I didn't have a pump in the tank... I wouldn't know a mechanical injection system that has a electronic fuel pump as well(although I am sure that they are out there). When I changed the fuel filter and gave the lifter pump a couple of pumps...she started first pop like always. The lifter pump looks fairly new anyway as does the vacuum pump. Which is good news :)
see i thought i had it wrong....is it only the v8 with a fuel pump pretty sure one of the disco's has a pump but I didn't think the v8 needed it as it has a natural vacuum. to get fuel out of the tank...but I probably got that wrong also been doing that a lot lately :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojo
:) nice
Found this by chance interesting suggestions and guesses , but am curious 'electric injection pump' what model did that appear on, mines a late D1 nearly D2 , have never seen one they aren;t mentioned in the disco workshop manual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojo
How were they supposed to work, considering the injection pump runs off the timing belt/chain (depending on the make of engine) so the metered amount of fuel is injected into the cylinder at the precise moment.
john
They will have an electronic cut out on the back of the injection pump. Single wire. It is used to stop the vehicle.. How else would you stop and old style diesel??
Sorry for being inaccurate, the pump itself is controlled by EDC (Electronic Diesel Control) on vehicles with automatic transmission from 1996 onwards, as opposed to mechanically governed pumps on contemporary manual transmission Discos. The automatic vehicles even have a slightly higher power output. The system is kind of fly-by-wire, so no mechanical link between accelerator and pump.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnE
The fuel shut off solenoid is always wired.