Thread: Skips a beat

Hi Johnv

What model year and how many km on the clock?

Mine is a 2001 Td5 auto. I have noticed the same thing from time to time. Does not seem to do anything apart from a slight miss as you mention.

On 2 occasions I have had trouble starting the engine. Once at Tennant Creek mid day in April and one on the Gold Coast. Both times were after running for an hour or so and then stopping for less than half an hour. The engine cranked over but would not fire. Both times I turned igintion on and pumped the pedal 5 times - my mechanic told this would self bleed to fuel line if air was in it. Both times it finally fired after 2 or 3 goes at this.

Mentioned this to my mechanic on the last service and he could find nothing wrong.

I thought the miss might be related to the starting problem, but I don't know.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>My disco suddenly and intermitently misses a beat. [/b][/quote]

Maybe it happens at the same time that the Bank withdraws your monthly installment. :roll: :wink:

Hey that might be the problem ...... hang on :?: ....... I paid cash for it! 8O

Can't be that ..... maybe it just likes to tease me a bit ... or my mechanic has fiddled with the computer and pushes the remote when he is a bit short of cash for the week! ops:

Pumping the acc. pedal on an efi or crd vehicle before cranking will do nothing.

1999 TD5 160K on clock

Well it worked for me. My mechanic used this method at the Land Rover dealership he used to work at. When he started working for his new employer the employer told me it used to take the other mechanics up to half an hour to bleed the system after a filter change in a Td5. Anyway I have read that the Td5 fuel system pressurises the fuel from the pump in the tank. This happens when the ignition is turned on and the fuel system starts to pressurise.

I might be wrong, let me know if I am and also what could cause the engine not to fire.

This is from the RAVE CD:

Fuel system purging
____________
If the vehicle runs out of fuel, or the fuel level is so
low that the fuel system draws air into the fuel rail,
the fuel rail will need to be purged before the engine
will start. This can be achieved by following the
procedure below.

If this procedure is carried out on a vehicle that
has not run out of fuel or otherwise drawn air into
the fuel rail, it can lead to the engine flooding and
failing to start.

Purge

1. Turn the ignition switch off and wait 15
seconds.

2. Turn the ignition switch to position II and wait 3
minutes (this ensures that the fuel system
purges all the air from the fuel rail within the
cylinder head).

3. Fully depress the throttle pedal.

4. Keeping the throttle pedal fully depressed,
crank the engine.

5. As soon as engine speed exceeds 600 rev/min,
release the throttle pedal and the ignition
switch.The engine must not be cranked
continuously for more than 30 seconds at
any one time.

6. If the engine fails to start, repeat the above
procedure.


I believe this is very similar to what my mechanic told me to do. My main concern was with paragraph 2. Maybe my fuel system had some air in it.

It only failed to start twice in the 15 months I have owned it.

Any ideas or similar experiences?