Recent content by Mattie

For all who are interested, I finally got the Freelander to rev. For some reason as soon as I put the throttle to the floor when starting the engine the old girl burst into life. Yet if I did not depress the throttle while trying to start the engine she was having none of it. As soon as...

An update , I had made the wiring loop change first and and the engine started and revved fine. It was only after I changed the fuel pressure sensor on the end of the fuel rail did the engine have difficulty in starting and failing to rev. Got me stumped

Hi All, I have a 53 plate Freelander TD4 with 120000 miles on the clock. Can anyone help. I have just changed my fuel pressure sensor and wiring harness as in "The Mad Hat Man's" technical note due to the MIL light coming on whilst driving and the engine power reducing and poor starting...

Hi All, I have a 53 plate Freelander TD4 with 120000 miles on the clock. Can anyone help. I have just changed my fuel pressure sensor and wiring harness as in "The Mad Hat Man's" technical note due to the MIL light coming on whilst driving and the engine power reducing and poor starting...

I did enjoy the humor the way some of you read the title of my post .

For all of you who are interested I have found the route course. It would appear that when the service was done they pushed the side engine plastic cover in too far and all the plastic tabs that should go eitherside of the under engine cover plate side rails were all in on the engine...

I wonder if any one can shed any light on the new noise which has just started. When I pull away I get a clicking / grinding noise from the drivers side of the engine. This noise goes away as soon as the vehicle is moving, its just pulling off that the noise is heard. I first thought...

Just reading my earlier post....I fitted the old pump and all sorted out ........ Don't you just auto correct.

Just to update you. Had the wheel off this afternoon and confirmed that the fitted pump was not working. Tried giving it a thump, nothing. Then I remembered I had the cheepie eBay one that I had fitted and removed on the wife's freelander. I fitted the old pump and all sorted not...

Just a further thought, I think I remember reading somewhere that the lp fuel pump has a life of about 75k. Don't know if there is any truth in it, but having two Freelanders and now replacing my second lp fuel pump. One at 95k and one that was making noises at 87k. There might be some...

Hi, I bow to your knowledge, just got back home and in the piece of my garage I switched on the ignition and no wirring of the lp fuel pump. After a few seconds there is a short wirring from the engine bay but that's it. Based on that I believe you are right and that my lp fuel pump has...

Is it common for the fuel pump in the rear wheel arch to just fail like that? Thinking about it, if it did, it would then starve the main fuel pump of the engine - so yes could be a good pointer. I can second the "Dont get cheepie fuel pump off ebay" i did originally fit a said cheepie to the...

Battery is good, turns the engine over no problems. Have strong belief its a fuel or sensor issue. Thinking i might disconnect the fuel line that comes into the engine bay tonight and see if i am getting fuel through. Otherwise, could it be a wiring issue with the fuel sensor on the rail...

The wheel arch fuel pump on my Freelander has never yet had an issue - that said it was only last week that i changed the wheel arch fuel pump on the wife's 53 Td4 as that was making a din of a noise. That one i replaced with a LR pump and thats all wirring away now nicely - but mine has...

Hi, Freelander 53 plate Td4. I gave it a full service about 4 months ago - all filters, including fuel, crank case etc. The Freelander has been running fine without a single hint of anything wrong - was away for xmas and put about 1K on it, then back a forth to work for the week, then...