Redthetruck
New Member
Hello everyone
Bit of a strange problem that my garage is stumped over and I don't want to start paying expensive labour for LR to investigate the problem...so I thought I'd pick your brains!
I have an 02 Defender 90 TD5, c. 50,000 miles.
Been running sweet as a nut but started hunting a bit recently when idling.
Not sure if the hunting is connected to the main weird problem, which is that when I put the handbrake on the engine cuts out, the fuel pump starts 'buzzing' (from under passenger seat), the temp gauge on the dash stops working and the lights on the dash flicker. It then won't start (fuel pump just buzzes rather than whines), until I take the handbrake off. The moment the handbrake is off it starts sweet as anything.
Am completely baffled! Am driving around without using the handbrake at the moment and it's fine, but I'm sure I'm going to need to do a hill start at some point soon...
Any ideas?
It's been in to the garage and they've inspected the wiring looms, fiddled things around (which then temporarily removed the problem), the handbrake's been stripped back and the wiring checked.
Thank you in advance!
Bit of a strange problem that my garage is stumped over and I don't want to start paying expensive labour for LR to investigate the problem...so I thought I'd pick your brains!
I have an 02 Defender 90 TD5, c. 50,000 miles.
Been running sweet as a nut but started hunting a bit recently when idling.
Not sure if the hunting is connected to the main weird problem, which is that when I put the handbrake on the engine cuts out, the fuel pump starts 'buzzing' (from under passenger seat), the temp gauge on the dash stops working and the lights on the dash flicker. It then won't start (fuel pump just buzzes rather than whines), until I take the handbrake off. The moment the handbrake is off it starts sweet as anything.
Am completely baffled! Am driving around without using the handbrake at the moment and it's fine, but I'm sure I'm going to need to do a hill start at some point soon...
Any ideas?
It's been in to the garage and they've inspected the wiring looms, fiddled things around (which then temporarily removed the problem), the handbrake's been stripped back and the wiring checked.
Thank you in advance!