Well I worked in some WD40, (all I had) and then some Silicone spray and left it for a few days to all soak in,whilst I drove other car.At the weekend I tried the key again and hey presto back to normal-so for the moment all is good-how long for is another question,but been using her daily since...

My german laser supplier tells me De-ionised water is too aggresive and must be distilled water only for the Laser-this seems to conflict with your post?

Yup happened this morning when I tried to take daughter to school(running late anyway of course)-had to defrost the other car(luckily had one)Daughter actually said"why do landrovers go wrong" lol :)

Ta muchly-first time it has ever played up!

TD5 1999 Put key in ignition this morning and will not turn-Almost like wrong key.Tried turning steering wheel to make sure steering lock was set.Tried rocking key to see if it will turn,but no. Ideas? Loads of WD 40 maybe?

Think you will find the oily looking GPs are the ones which are not working

Lift pump connected correctly?If so take off pipes and see if you can feel vacuum pumping lift pump manually-on 300 tdi lower pipe goes to tank

Try running it off a bottle of derv under the bonnet(tube from lift pump intake in bottle of derv)-this will prove your lift pump and injection pump are fine and your issue is air ingress elsewhere

My TD5 runs fine on Bio home brew,but I would not risk kero-no lubrication

Wahay result! I reckon you are sorted-perhaps you were air locked somewhere.

Another obvious-presumably she spins over fast while cranking and ALSO volts does not drop below 10.5 volts while cranking (I believe ecu gives out below 10.5 volts)

Spent nearly a week in October getting the wrap off my TD5,bloody nightmare,days with heat guns,boiling water and various scrapers-never again

Good Luck David-hope you are turning the corner

Not stating the obvious,but can you hear the tank pump running on ignition on?

When my MAF was bust it would crank over but not fire-try disconnecting MAF and see if she will start quickly

Also try dis- connecting the MAF and try starting again .If she fires up ok,new MAF time.When my MAF went (unknown to me) I had several bad starting events,which no amount of winding over made any difference.Not had a repeat since fitting new MAF

When you say you have cured your glow plug issues,you have proved all 4 glow cherry red in similar time outside the engine,via jump leads or whatever?

I would check your diode pack in the alternator is not leaking-remove large connector from alt(be careful as +12 volts) and then repeat your drain measurement.If this is the problem,sometimes cleaning all the carbon crap out of alt will fix this.

Might be worth flushing again in another week or so,might be more black crap to come out yet

Are you sure the heater is not air locked?Otherwise it is blocked.