Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Originally Posted by gusthedog

You don't need to fill the filter or blindly crank until the car starts. You just need to prime the fuel system. I've had two td5's and changed more than 20 fuel filters. Use the search function. There are heaps of threads on priming the fuel lines.

A 2 minute search reveals:

"Just turn the ignition on and depress fully and release the throttle pedal 5 times. The check engine light will start flashing as it enters the bleed mode. Just leave it for about ten minutes while it goes through its various cycles"

Pricey

Doesn't even need 10 minutes. I ran mine out ( stupid ). Popped 20 litres in, googled 'priming fuel system TD5' and had it running in two minutes. You can hear the pump doing it's thing. When it stops you go.

Dunno what I would have done back in 2000 when the car was new. What did we do before smartphones?

Mick's running a Puma, I think the 2.4, not a TD5.
There's no pump behind the filter to push the diesel through.
The book says to prime/suck it through with what's essentially an outboard boat fuel primer from just at the engine. Another way of doing it is to pressurise the tank, thus pushing the fuel through.

I'm not sure what he did, if in fact if he did anything to help prime it, which may be why he had dramas getting it to run again. As he said, lucky his battery was up to the task so alls good now.

Yep, as Chops said, with the 2.4 you need to pre-fill the filter before fitting. Lucky you got it going again Mick.
I've changed several this way and haven't had any issues.

I helped a friend out last year, who after changing his filter couldn't get his Puma to fire. In the end we pressurised the tank with his compressor, and all was sweet.

Thanks, but this is a Puma not a Td5.
The vehicle had sat with the new filter in for a day so there had been time for the fuel to move naturally if it was going to do that. I checked the new filter was full of fuel by opening the bleed screw on the bottom until fuel ran out.
I had lost about half a bucket of fuel so I knew there would be an empty line between the new filter and the fuel pump up front. Normally if it was just a matter of changing the filter not so much fuel would have been lost, I assume.
The guy at the LR dealer where I bought the new filter said the system down the back was not under much pressure.
So I didn't know any way to get the fuel to flow forwards to the pump except to kick it over and hope the suction of the pump would pull the fuel forwards. Fortunately the start battery is new and fully charged.
After doing that several times over about 5 mins it sputtered and, the next time, started. It ran roughly, I assume until the full amount of fuel came through, and then settled down to a normal idle, so I let it idle for a bit to check all was well.
If there is a better way to do it with a Puma I'd like to know. The handbook says nothing. I didn't think of pressurising the tank.


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The new carburettor in the 2a was flooding again. I think I may have found the problem this time, and fixed it - the O-ring gone hard. At any rate it was running OK when I got it back together. I'll do a test drive tomorrow to make sure.

John

spent the afternoon changing all the drivetrain oils in madge and finally after a few years fitted the finned alloy cover to the bottom of transfer case. i bought it years ago and for what ever reason never got round to fitting it...

Originally Posted by incisor

spent the afternoon changing all the drivetrain oils in madge and finally after a few years fitted the finned alloy cover to the bottom of transfer case. i bought it years ago and for what ever reason never got round to fitting it...

Inc, do you have a "Roamerdrive" unit on it or are you fitting the finned sump plate because of the warm climate up there?
Is it the Roamerdrive product or another manufacturer?


Cheers, Mick.

I have a toro overdrive and thought it would help in some way

The casting has Canada on it but I will have to stick my head back under to read the rest as it escapes me at the present time

PS crawled under it and is a global roamer cover.