Thread: 300 TDi Fuel line rubbing

G'Day all, just solved a small issue with my Discovery TDi. Symptoms: it had developed a slow rough idle that lead to it stalling, it became hard to start, taking 2 or 3 5 to 10 second starter operations. Became even more sluggish to drive, lacked power and when pulling up would stall. It had just been serviced by a land rover mechanic, ( a good one). The issue had to be either too much or too little fuel. To cut a long story short the issue was where the fuel line comes from the filter to the injector pump, it crossed over another smaller line from the injector pump. The smaller line had rubbed a groove into the inlet fuel line and caused a pin hole leak, the fuel ran down the smaller line and onto the engine block and was blown away by the fan leaving the leak area dry. Temp fix is to cut the fuel line at the hole and slip a rubber hose over the existing line and clamp it on. Job done, back on the road and back up to full , umm power.
Hope this helps.

I have seen plastic Zip Ties cut through steel power steering lines on trucks, a bit of oil leaks onto pipe/zip tie and picks up some dust/grit and instant grinding paste.

yep have seen the beginnings of this as well, most of the fleet was common rail though (Cummins 903 X 6 and 290 X 3)