Apologies for my first post being a request for advice guys - I'm usually over on the Disco 3 forum but my son has a problem with his Freelander 2 (Diesel) and I thought "Go to the guys who know!".

He put it through the local Ford (in the river not a Focus!) but the water level was up higher than usual with the floods and he hydro locked it. fyi: Didn't get stranded in the water, he rolled out the other side behind the transit that had just done exactly the same thing!

So, bought a nice low mileage engine and put it in, but although it turns over it won't start on the vehicle fuel supply. Will fire up happily on easystart direct to inlet.

Fuel getting to the high pressure side but something is stopping it getting through to the fuel rail.

fyi: Have swapped the crank sensor for the one from the old engine (as understand these have to be matched to the ecu) but still no fire up.

Any thoughts oh great ones?

Can you see fuel coming out of the filter? If you haven’t primed it properly you’ll see residual fuel post filter but not enough!
Make sure you have siphoned through before reconnecting the fuel rail??

Voyageofdisovery wrote:

fyi: Have swapped the crank sensor for the one from the old engine (as understand these have to be matched to the ecu) but still no fire up.
Any thoughts oh great ones?

Have you had any joy with this yet?

No
Apologies, haven't updated you but had to walk away from it today for a bit.
We had swapped the CPS at the suggestion of a Land Rover Specialist (maybe not so special if into was false), so had in effect, tried the new one originally.
Have bled the system with a vacuum pump.
Am going to try swapping out the filter in case it was blocked, but bit of a long shot.
Will try another bleed tomorrow.
Frustrating!

Sounds a mare! Good luck with it!.... it’s so annoying when you know it’s just a tiny thing stopping it firing!
Fingers crossed!

Ain't that the truth!

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I assume you have cracked open one injector pipe at the injector and the rail?

Jumper leads on from running car.

If fuel is coming from filter it should appear at injector.
Then loosen each one in turn, retightening when fuel appears at each one.

Don't crank engine for more than 10 seconds each time .

It may take a good few turns .

It's a mechanical lift pump

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Getting bubbles in the fuel system when drawn through the filter with vacuum pump. Connections seem sound but these push on things never seem tight...will try changing the filter.

Badger51 wrote:

Modern CRD fuel systems should not need the injector lines to be bled, infact it is a real no no in the diesel world. This system operates at extremely high pressure & is more than capable of slicing skin/flesh like a scalpel! I personally would ignore the comments that advise that.

Changed the filter and seems to have stopped or reduced the leak of air in. Pressure at the rail now much, much higher. Still won't fire though

I expect its the CoronaVirus, everythiing else in the has stopped because of it...

Well undo just one injector nut and also slacken the pipe at the rail to allow you to move it slightly,
Then keep turning engine until drips come out.
Then retighten and try another.
When all 4 have had dribbles through, just leave on loose at the injector and keep trying

Of course you don’t know when the engine last run do you?

That's what we've been doing as per your instructions MOWOG. Not even a hint of running. It's as if the injectors aren't actually firing. You'd think (well I would but I know Petrol) that at least it would cough a bit...?