Discodevon

Well-Known Member

• Dec 19, 2016

• #1

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone has seen or had issues with the harness without the ecu red plug being oiled up... Perhaps just getting old and brittle inside the engine sort of thing?

 

jamesmartin

Well-Known Member

• Dec 19, 2016

• #2

is there any oil at the connector on the front of engine

 

Barbados

Active Member

• Dec 19, 2016

• #3

Any conductor can fail due to corrosion, water ingress fractures etc..so to tell you if yours failed or what caused it will be a shot in the dark. Best thing is to do electrical tests on it, tracing it from where it has power to the connectors individually.

 

Last edited: Dec 19, 2016

lightning

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• Dec 19, 2016

• #4

Our 2003 TD5 suddenly started running on four cylinders.
There was no oil at the ECU red plug.
l changed the injector harness and it cured the fault immediately.

 

Discodevon

Well-Known Member

• Dec 19, 2016

• #5

That's interesting... I was looking online yesterday and saw a couple people had running problems and didn't have oil on the ecu or in the head plug... But a new one cured it so it had me thinking it's probably good to replace every few years... Does anyone advise which one to get as genuine is very expensive where as oem is half the price?

 

sierrafery

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• Dec 20, 2016

• #6

Unfortunately only genuine is reliable

 

lightning

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• Dec 23, 2016

• #7

I ordered a Britpart one at just over £20, when it arrived it was OE in a Britpart box.

 

sierrafery

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• Dec 23, 2016

• #8

OE is just a bit fancier aftermarket, it will last as it's price, not much IMO

 

Brown

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Full Member

• Dec 25, 2016

• #9

With the Defender, the ECU is quite a long way from the cylinder head (unlike the Discovery) so it would take a lot of oil leakage over a long period of time to get there. Mostly, when mine are about to go, I see oil on the multiplug at the front of the cylinder head. Even better, when this is beginning to happen, a Nanocom might show you a 'peak charge long' error.