Hi, just wondered if anyone else has ever experienced this?
I took a 200tdi from a Discovery about 12 months ago and finally got round to fitting it in my Defender. Before fitting it gave it a new Clutch, timing belt and oil etc, mated it to a Defender LT77 gearbox I got at the time.
Installed the whole lump following the great advice on here and all seems to have gone really well. Until this morning when we rolled it out of the workshop! Filled the rad and started her up, on tickover its great sits there at the right amount of revs very happily. So we then tried to rev it to try and get the temp up a little to check the sender. The revs hardly pick up and the engine just appears to be starved of fuel We have done the following ....
Checked extended fuel lines aren't pulling any air in and tried bypassing the filter.
Blown out the fuel pump with air.
Checked the solenoid is clear.
Set crank to TDC and poked a drill bit through the hole in the fuel pump pulley to make sure it still located in the hole in the casing.
Cracked the fuel lines at the injectors one by one, all fueled and cylinder drops off when opened as it should.
The engine worked fine in the Disco, but has been stood.... any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers Nick