PhilG
Free Member
So 4 days in , and this morning she dont wanna go.. spins like a good un but no litey..
Thinking it may have been glowplugs, i did what any proper bloke would do... keep your foot in and turn it till it goes. It didnt.
So.. tough choice.. do i take the van with no MOT or tax, wake the boy , or ask the wife to drive 20 miles out of her way.
So after a very quiet 10 mile drive, and all day at work wondering how much £££ i am going to have to drop to get it fixed, i blag a lift home and crack on.
I am no rookie, but i had to google where the filter housing was, and even then i couldnt see it with the lights i had, so 10 minutes of buggering about with lights and cables , and i am good to go , find the filter housing on the bulkhead on the near side , behind the air filter housing .
Finding it and getting at it are not the same, and after a bit of persuasion, the filter came out, possibly to never to go back in again.
So now i can get to it, i check for leaks , but no smell of sign of fuel, nothing on the floor, or anywhere under the vehicle.
Luckily the filter is the old type that screws on and not the two peice plastic jobby, and when i get my fingers to it to see if its tight, and not only is it not tight , it moves freely. Now that is a result.
After digging out my rubber palmed gloves (no laughing at the back) i get enough on the filter to snug it back into place, and after priming the system (3 times on with the ignition for 15 secs) she fired up first go.. like better than it did before.
So .. why did it happen. Well it was serviced maybe 12,000 miles ago, before i got her, always been a good starter , unless she stands for a few weeks, and then it spins a bit longer than you would like, but it always goes, and runs fine.
When i fired her up at New Year to get her back on the front of the house, it took a bit, and then was almost as bad the next day.
In reality, it has started 6 times since we came back from Belgium .. so could have been worse
So if you have a 2.8 JTD and it starts to get less willing to go , get it checked out before it does you over.
Thinking it may have been glowplugs, i did what any proper bloke would do... keep your foot in and turn it till it goes. It didnt.
So.. tough choice.. do i take the van with no MOT or tax, wake the boy , or ask the wife to drive 20 miles out of her way.
So after a very quiet 10 mile drive, and all day at work wondering how much £££ i am going to have to drop to get it fixed, i blag a lift home and crack on.
I am no rookie, but i had to google where the filter housing was, and even then i couldnt see it with the lights i had, so 10 minutes of buggering about with lights and cables , and i am good to go , find the filter housing on the bulkhead on the near side , behind the air filter housing .
Finding it and getting at it are not the same, and after a bit of persuasion, the filter came out, possibly to never to go back in again.
So now i can get to it, i check for leaks , but no smell of sign of fuel, nothing on the floor, or anywhere under the vehicle.
Luckily the filter is the old type that screws on and not the two peice plastic jobby, and when i get my fingers to it to see if its tight, and not only is it not tight , it moves freely. Now that is a result.
After digging out my rubber palmed gloves (no laughing at the back) i get enough on the filter to snug it back into place, and after priming the system (3 times on with the ignition for 15 secs) she fired up first go.. like better than it did before.
So .. why did it happen. Well it was serviced maybe 12,000 miles ago, before i got her, always been a good starter , unless she stands for a few weeks, and then it spins a bit longer than you would like, but it always goes, and runs fine.
When i fired her up at New Year to get her back on the front of the house, it took a bit, and then was almost as bad the next day.
In reality, it has started 6 times since we came back from Belgium .. so could have been worse
So if you have a 2.8 JTD and it starts to get less willing to go , get it checked out before it does you over.