Thread: She no wanna go

Hi Guys
Jump into BlackBetty,OR THE BEDFORD as a workmate calls her turn the key and nobodys home.
All the lights light up,fuel pumps running,just no turn over or sounds like its trying to.
Did the emergency start incase the key was dud,no start.
Pulled the ECU,still a small amount of oil,but much less than before.
Gave her a push start and she sprang into life.Starts now perfectly.
I did replace the fuel block very recently,Im thinking the starter motor has a guts full of diesel and dust????? Or Richard has half dislodged a wire on the starter whilst doing the head gasket.
Anybody had similar probs????
Andrew

had a similar problem with the 'fender, nothing turning over at all, the dash lights etc working, 'fender just not starting; it was the end of the day so i was lucky to have the mechanics still in, they came out, had a look, tried to jump start it at the starter with no response, checked all the wires at the starter, all fine, by now shes getting late and still not starting so i bite the bullet and tell work mechanics we'll just get her out the gates & i'll get rac to tow to my landy mechanic, hooked her up to tow out the gates and i don't know why but i thought i'd give the key another turn just as we'd started to move & she starts but the horn is dodgy so i can't honk to let them know shes running & its ****ing down so they can't hear her running so have to high beam them to stop, i go up to their ute & tell them what i did, their first question, have you got an immobiliser? yes i do but figured immobiliser is connected to alarm & central locking which were still operational so that wasn't the problem. work mechanics say that is the problem & might need replacing, get her home & booked her in for my next rdo. it runs without a hitch for a week so i re-schedule landy mechanic to look at it at the next service. lasts another two weeks before it happens again, call rac they come out & say its the starter motor it needs replacing, bro in law comes over has a look & says immobiliser stuffed so shows me how to bypass it. too fiddley for my liking so booked in at my landy mechanic who calls to say (as he's working on it) if he disconnect immob. i will lose central locking & alarm, do what ya gotta do i need a vehicle so he does. two days later 2am alarm in landy going off all lights on (spotties, hazards etc) so have to disconnect batteries & wait for alarm to die off, dead by 3am reconnect batteries & happens again so i disconnect them and ponder torching landy as find it hard to understand how this could happen when i've been told alarm also had to be disconnected & the lights if ever left on without running have always gone to park/sidelight function, call mechanic first thing in morning explained what happened says bring her in i say will try reconnect battries & bring her down but wifes not happy & i explain monies tight at the moment (just paid $1800 to him for work on landy 2 days ago) he says well bring her in when you can afford to. landy wont ever be going there again which is sad after i've been going there for 4 yrs but at least its running thanks to bro in law.
to cut a long story short, it was the immobiliser that was the initial problem (in my case)