About Tony Edwards Expertise Can answer questions on british and european diesel injection systems , Limited on the latest electronic and common rail systems but have accsess to technical backup .
Experience I have 27 yrs in the diesel injection repair business. Currently Service Manager at Toyota dealership, but more than happy to answer your diesel related questions.
Expert: Tony Edwards Date: 7/15/2004 Subject: Ford diesel cutting out.
Question Hi Tony
I have a ford courier tddi (wreg 2000).
It has an intermittet fault. sometimes out of the blue it starts lacking power, the power comes and goes in surges and it has stalled a few times when ive tried to pull away, when ive eventally got it home and switched it off overnight, the next day its fine? ive changed the fuel and air filter. can you shed any light on this problem?
also theres a squeak coming from the engine that only sounded in wet weather but now its all the time, and info would be aprieciated.
Mark
Answer Sounds like either air in system ( which can be difficult to prove ) or a vacum occuring in tank, possibly because tank vent is blocked. usually located top of o/s/rear wheel arch. air in system can be determined by using clear plastic pipe between pump and filter. Need to know the fuel system i.e. bosch lucas ? difficult one here need more info, but likelyhood is that it will require process of elimination to solve power fault, as far as squeak maybe slack fan belt?
regards
Tony
