Help needed, can not start car

[trikey]

You need to get the car on a diagnostic machine to take out the guesswork, could be a failing underbonnet pump or injector leakback.

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by Yorkshire GOC

If your car is starting with easy start you can discount the cam or crank sensor - if either of these are faulty / failing the engine will not be spark as the ECU without a signal from these sensors will not allow the engine to fire.

As your engine is firing I would still do a leak back test - you only need one failing injector to prevent you starting.

If there's a spark it's a miracle as it's a diesel.

Will fire up on easy start if neither of these is working.---

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by bandayho

thanks, i took the pipe that supplys fuel to the injectors and placed it in a bottle turned the engine and fuel came out, but no fuel cam out my injectors so i think they are ok,

and i have been told there is two type of cam sensors so i am not sure which one to get and try,

i am not sure if its related but my drivers window switch now does not work, from the same time.

Don't play about with any of the pipes that go to the injectors. The fuel pressure is very,very high. The diesel can penetrate your skin and kill you.---

[COLVERT]

If your fuel level was very low then 15 litres of diesel is nowhere near enough if your in-tank pump has stopped working.--Could very easily be not enough fuel in the tank.--

[kaiser]

Originally Posted by Yorkshire GOC

If your car is starting with easy start you can discount the cam or crank sensor - if either of these are faulty / failing the engine will not be spark as the ECU without a signal from these sensors will not allow the engine to fire.

As your engine is firing I would still do a leak back test - you only need one failing injector to prevent you starting.

Spark??
this is a Diesel. Does not have or need any spark.

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by kaiser

Spark??
this is a Diesel. Does not have or need any spark.

GOTCHA---My typing finger has beaten you to the draw.---

[COLVERT]

Posts 4 and 9 need correcting.-----Clouding the issue.--

[bandayho]

i have ordered a new can sensor, i did a quick leak back test, but taking the fuel line of the injectors placing them in a coke bottle and turned the engine, fuel came out the pipes in to the coke bottle so i know fuel is getting to the injectors.
no fuel came back through the top of the injectors, so i assume the injectors are ok.
i will fit the cam sensor once it gets here and let you guys know how it goes

[bandayho]

the fuel is going through the fuel filter as when i disconnect it, and switch ignition on, fuel squirts clean out of the car, and fuel is getting too the injectors, so i can not see it being a fuel pump of any kind

[Number 6]

Originally Posted by bandayho

the fuel is going through the fuel filter as when i disconnect it, and switch ignition on, fuel squirts clean out of the car, and fuel is getting too the injectors, so i can not see it being a fuel pump of any kind

Maybe the infamous "Injector Leak Back"..:shrug Do a proper test, not just the fuel flow from the UBP.

Also when I had a non starting Diesel it was the small "O" ring seal on the HP regulator on the rear of the HP pump