Defender 200 tdi fuel fault

[chris_oakley]

Symtoms - Hard Start from Cold, Excessive smoke diesel smelling, and sounding like its misfiring rough.

fuel supply is fresh,

cracked of the injectors. all make a noticeable difference in engine sounding, apart from one that makes no difference in the sounding at all.

Next step is to change the injector to a different cylinder to see if the results are the same as above.

What are peoples thoughts.?

Injector Fault?

or worse..

[K88 MUD]

Glow plugs or there supply not working

[chris_oakley]

But it doesn't improve when warm , glow plugs are only operating for a time amount anyway , are they not ?

[Retroanaconda]

I think you may have identified the cause yourself, the injector you mentioned. Complete your test and see what happens

[western]

a poor injector will definily affect the running/starting,

check the items marked in the fails to start & engine misfires columns on the attached diesel fault chart.

diesel fault diagnosis chart.pdf

[chris_oakley]

Everything points to the injector gonna go to workshop now. bored so got nothing to loose. will post back later.

[chris_oakley]

Just checked it out , swapped number 3 inj with number 2 inj.

Fault still lies with Number 3 cylinder. area

[gee1599]

i would take the rocker cover off and check the rockers on cyl 3 next

also when you cracked of the injectors was fuel coming out of number 3 injector pipe??

[chris_oakley]

YES fuel was coming out of number 3 but. it seemed not as high pressure as all the others although il double check this 2morow.

i don't think its base engine related.

more fuel related.

[Retroanaconda]

Then it may be the injection pump's no. 3 feed?