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It's basically the diesel tank equivalent of algae. Biological matter that grows in the diesel. The vehicle has been stood for nearly 4 years so without any agitation or fresh fuel its probably provided ideal growing conditions. It's not that...

The voltage dropped about 1.5V while cranking. My gut feel was it's a fuelling issue (given it would only attempt to fire while bumping at full throttle and high revs) so having worked through the easy/obvious stuff I pulled the pump out of...

Thanks again for replying Sierrafery. I will check the voltage while cranking tomorrow when I go back to the vehicle.

Thanks for the reply Sierraferry. I did initially try it without touching the throttle but it wouldn't fire at all. I then tried it with the throttle open which got it to fire but then took my foot off the peddle and it died instantly. The only...

I tried bumping it off today and it managed to fire but only just. The battery was fully charged and showing 12.7 volts when towing. I let th eclutrch up in second and it span up to around 1750rpm and ran very lumpily with the throttle fully...

Brilliant, thanks for the reply. Its a new battery and fully charged and was only showing 220 rpm at the first attempt. Voltage was 12.7. The crank position sensor speed reading was stable with no apparent interference/fluctuation. so I...

Back on the TD5 Defender, this time with a nanocom and I'm still struggling to get it to fire. It's had a recon gearbox before I got to it. when I put the Nanocom on it was showing zero RPM while cranking. I discovered the CPS was not plugged...

I'm trying to enter the code into the radio and the manual states to use preset buttons 1234 to enter the code. Thats fine, code entered then it says 'to complete the entry the RND button must be pressed;. The RND button is preset button 3 and...

thanks for the replies guys, sounds like i need to order a nanocom then. Ta

Been having another play with the 2000 TD5 defender today and it's obvious I need a code reader as per the advice in the fuelling issue thread. I've ben having a look at what appear to be the main condendors, both new and used: GAP ID, Hawkeye...

Thanks very much for the response, I'll try giving it a tow and see if that does anything and if not then I'll try and source a scanner.