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I decided to stick this on a seperate post as it's a new problem........
I recently had more problems with the daihatsu. It was stalling all the time and lacking any power. I think this might be related to the other smoking problems. I changed the fuel filter tonight and found it was half full of brown sludge! Think I might have rust in the fuel tank!
I put some injector cleaner in the tank about a month ago and wondering if this has disloged the gung in the tank.
Anyway after changing this and bleeding the air out through the injectors, I'm still having problems. The car now goes like a bomb up to about 30miles an hour then runs out of steam, so I think air is still getting in to the system somewhere. It also doesn't idle very well once you rev the engine and stalls easily. I think it might be through one of the injector seals or the primer button on the filter. One thing I've noticed is that the primer button never goes rock hard. Is this likely to be due to air?
What have you ???
It would help folks if you detailed what model of truck/car you have, along with engine details.?????
Edward (ews) '92 Fourtrak 2.8 TDX
Hi Guy's, Apologies, I
Hi Guy's,
Apologies, I should have stated the engine details. Its a 2.8TD engine fitted into my land rover series 2. I've got a landrover fuel filter fitted which i changed yesterday. It's been driving better today but still lacks power and stalls easily. I've been bleeded the air out through an injector which brings the revs back up each time. However it is short lived and the problem comes back again. The next time I bleed the injector the same thing happens.
Bunged up fuel filter
From what you say, it seems that you have a 4trak.
It's unlikely that you dislodged crap in the fuel tank by using injector cleaner, but the symptoms you describe are typical of a bunged up fuel filter.
When the filter is clogged, it will only allow a small flow rate, the engine will run fine up to the speed that the flow through the filter is insufficient to supply the injector pump. The pump begins sucking against a vacuum and any small leaks allow air into the system.
A small amount of air doesn't matter too much because the system is self-bleeding (the air bubbles go back via the return pipe to the fuel tank, which is the whole point of the return pipe in the first place ! ) Self-bleeding works up to a point, though .... if the pump and injectors are full of air, then it just won't play ball !
Dismantle the fuel filter to see if it's dirty. If so, make sure that the fuel tank is clear of crap before replacing the filter. All that will happen in this case is that the vehicle will run well for a while until more rubbish bungs up your new filter which, btw, don't come cheap.
You will have to drain the tank to be sure its is free of rubbish. The bash plate below the tank will need to be removed to reveal the drain plug.