Help needed! Defender 200tdi juddered and now won’t start again

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Dunphy23

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My defender 200tdi now wont start after it juddered coming up to a roundabout, I pulled over and it cut out. I’ve checked the timing belt and it’s not that. I’m getting 12v to the fuel pump solenoid but I’m not getting any fuel to the injectors.

Any help is very much appreciated

Sam
 
You may well be getting 12v to the injection pump but are you getting fuel to it?
Check you have fuel coming out of the lift pump, check you have fuel coming out of the filter and too the injector pump and then the injectors.
Lest us know how you get on.
It is a good idea to have a clear fuel pile from filter to injection pump, you can see straight away if you have fuel and air bubbles.
 
Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll be investigating on Saturday so hopefully I can get it running. I’ve got a new lift pump just incase as I don’t think I’m getting any pressure on the manual arm anyway
 
I don't think a faulty lift pump would make it stall but I guess you never know. Worth changing anyway as they are cheap enough.
How about taking the inlet pipe into the filter off and crank it over with the key, see if its pumping fuel.
 
The 200 has a manual arm on the lift pump, right?

Crack off the banjo nut on the top of the fuel filter (or at the front of the injection pump, if that's easier) and pump the manual arm.

It's possible to have it on a cam lobe, so the arm does nothing other than flap about, so, if it does that, pulse the starter and try again.

If you still get no fuel, have someone sit in the vehical and spin over the starter whilst you look at the loosened banjo. Fuel should squirt out.

If it doesn't, you've got an issue in tank or at the lift pump.

If it does squirt out, connect everything back up again and loosen one of the injector pipes and take it (the pipe) off the injector. Get your helper to spin the starter again. Should see a pulse of fuel. It's not loads here but a blipping.

At this point you know if it's a tank / lift pump issue, or...
An injection pump issued, or...
A timing issue.
 
Fuel starvation normally manifests with lack of power and then the engine fizzling out. You can hold it on idle for a while and then it stalls.

Sudden stoppage sounds much more like a timing issue to me.
 
Could also be the stop solenoid failed, cam lobes in the hp pump do wear out so it doesn’t pump at high enough pressures to run ( more so running on red, that doesn’t have so many additives)
 
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