I'm new to this forum and i own 1981 series 3 which I've had for a while now,
It has the 2.5 n/a Sherpa diesel which was running fine and was recently rebuilt by the previous owner.
I took the fuel filter out for clean and reinstalled it, and went for a good 30 mile run , and everything was fine, although when i came back i was fairly low on fuel.
I went to get some diesel, and just as i entered the garage it started hunting and idled at a slightly higher rpm i managed to go a couple of miles, until it lost all power and cut out, i couldn't get it going on the side of road so i towed it home. And it being a Land Rover, it fired up as soon as i got it back home.
I though it might have something to do with the bleed screw on top of the filter which has two pipes running into it, one to drain back into the tank, and the other back from the injectors. When i swapped them round it seemed to have made a difference, so i bravely drove out again and managed to get about 3 miles away and it was hunting again and died.If i unscrewed the bleed screw quite a lot of diesel came out under pressure and if i did it back up again and with a lot of cranking it would fire up until it happens again another couple of miles or so later.
Any ideas to what the problem could be? I can only imagine its something to do with the fuel system.
Sorry if its a bit long winded, but i didn't want to miss out any details
I appreciate your help, Matthew
