FIRST Defender... Decelerated and now will not start..

HeathRex · Oct 14, 2013

Hey guys and girls,

I bought my very first land rover on friday. A 1986 90 defender. Soft top. Friday was great, learned how to operate it properly, killed it only twice haha. Saturday was fun as well, drove it around some more and went to the bowling alley with some friends to show it off. Yesterday I traveled to Kings Lynn, about an hour away for a roller derby event, stopped for dinner on the way home. Halfway home the truck won't accelerate.. so i pulled over on the side road.

Turned the engine off, put my hazards on and tried starting it up again. The engine sounded like it was trying to turn but wouldn't. I thought it was a battery problem (I know nothing about this truck), so I called a buddy to come and give it a jump. That didn't work so AA came and took it to a garage. It got there late at night. I got there this morning and explained what happened to the guys that work there. They're so busy that they can't even look at the vehicle until thursday.

I tried starting it up again in their lot and its making a clicking noise. Does anyone know what MIGHT be the problem? I'm kind of bummed. I'm hoping that the guy who I bought it from didn't sell me a piece of crap..

D90mitch · Oct 14, 2013

first, you should have introduced yourself in the introduce yourself section. Hello anyway

. You haven't even said what engine it is?

flat · Oct 14, 2013

1986 soft top 90 I am going to hazard a guess it's a 2.5na ex-army truck or maybe a 2.5td.

Either way say hello first

that's the polite thing to do

D90mitch · Oct 14, 2013

Might be a tdi conversion thoo. one of the first things i would have looked at for something like that with a loss of power is the air filter might be as blocked as a smelly drain

. then again that wouldnt explain the starting issue.

flat · Oct 14, 2013

Could be a combination of things tho

Duff starter? Or solenoid?

Rawly86 · Oct 14, 2013

The battery may be duff if its making a clicking sound when trying to start it. But then again I may be very wrong :behindsofa:

Jam1 · Oct 14, 2013

Rawly86 said:
The battery may be duff if its making a clicking sound when trying to start it. But then again I may be very wrong :behindsofa:

Had that before on a normally good starter and put it in gear rolled it backwards and forwards (the whole car) enough to turn the engine slightly and it fires up fine.

HeathRex · Oct 14, 2013

Haha, sorry for not introducing myself yet!
Here isn't the proper place but i'll do it anyway. I'm Heather! I'm stationed over here in England and loving it. I know a lot of guys were looking at this landy, really wanting to buy it but i jumped on it faster than them. Bummed I can't show it to the guys at work yet. All I know about the engine is that its a V8.. :blah:

How the heck do I add an image to this...

HeathRex · Oct 14, 2013

The past three MOT's are perfect. The previous owner has only owned it for a few months but needs a more "family friendly" car. And the guy before him had two landys and could only take one back to the states.

Jam1 · Oct 14, 2013

HeathRex said:
How the heck do I add an image to this...

Try Photobucket Photo and image hosting, free photo galleries, photo editing pretty easy to use.

Rawly86 · Oct 14, 2013

HeathRex said:
How the heck do I add an image to this...

I load them in to photobucket and copy the img file, paste it onto the thread.

HeathRex · Oct 14, 2013

here she is

matchmetisse · Oct 14, 2013

Hope its not the cambelt broken....trying to restart would have not done it good!

Jam1 · Oct 14, 2013

HeathRex said:
here she is

Same picture using Photobucket took about 30 seconds to copy, upload, copy img code and post, it took longer to write this

matchmetisse · Oct 14, 2013

Ignore what i just put....just seen its a v8

D90mitch · Oct 14, 2013

carbs or efi? Guessing carbs for that age? Don't know that much about V8's cant afford one yet i'm 19

HeathRex · Oct 14, 2013

D90mitch said:
carbs or efi? Guessing carbs for that age? Don't know that much about V8's cant afford one yet i'm 19

hey bud, pretty sure its efi.

Marmaduke · Oct 14, 2013

If it's clicking then it's either not enough power in the battery which if you've tried to jump start it properly then it should start or it's the starter motor / solenoid.

Should still bump start though, as in using a tow rope that will tell you if the battery is charging.

Start by getting your hands on a battery tester or a multimeter

HeathRex · Oct 14, 2013

Marmaduke said:
If it's clicking then it's either not enough power in the battery which if you've tried to jump start it properly then it should start or it's the starter motor / solenoid.

Should still bump start though, as in using a tow rope that will tell you if the battery is charging.

Start by getting your hands on a battery tester or a multimeter

I appreciate your help. My buddy's car is small, could that be why it wasn't helping me when he jumped it?

KillaJoules · Oct 14, 2013

Hi Heather.

What did the AA man say?

when you had a loss of power did it feel like it was struggling?

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