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Hello,

Tomorrow morning I'm nipping down to my local landy garage to buy a new fuel filter and potentially order a new lift pump, but I've got a couple of questions just to help me on my way:

1) Should I buy a Britpart fuel filter for around £1, or should I go for the propper land rover filter at about £4?

2) If I were to buy a new lift pump how easy is it to install myself? Just a couple of bolts onto the arm that drives it from the engine and the fuel pipes to take off and then re-connect?

Thanks for any advice!
-Pos
 
Buy FOUR Britpart filters and you won't feel nearly so bad throwing away a clogged one.

The lift pump is easy to change but there are several variations. My advice would be to take the old pump off, give it a good clean, wrap it in a cloth and take it with you to compare to the one they try to sell you.

CharlesY
 
Who else has been caught napping with "different" lift pumps?
We had a hard time with my Def 90 2.5 N/A 15J Sherpa diesel.
Hell fire trouble getting a pump that fitted and WORKED.

It's OK now.

Discomania has it now. I should have kept it. He's having too much fun with it, and it seems to pull the ladies.

CharlesY
 
Just to confirm then:

I couldn't even set off up one hill in first gear today, it wasn't terribly steep, my engine just had no power and I had to flip into low ratio for the bugger. I also noticed that I could pull up some short hills quite nicely at 40 in 4th gear, where as a longer strech of road with the slightest of inclines slowed me right down from 50 to 20!!!

It definitely seems like an inconsistent problem, i.e. something relating to my fuel line so if I buy a new filter (hopefuly the old one will be packed with ****e) and a new lift pump that fits am I likely to see big improvements?

:) :( :confused:

Fingers crossed!
-Pos
 
When you change the filter pour the diesel and ****e into a clean bowl so that when you've put the new un on you can go back to it an look at the state the owld un wuz in. You won't believe it.
 
Did you not say something about gravity feed from the tank in the back?

So that would make uphill work bad bad bad, and even make NORMAL fuel lifting worse.

I think you need to be very sure your lift pump works properly.

Take the fuel outlet pipe off where it joins the filter head.

Point it into a plastic bottle.

Take the stopper-wire off the injection pump so the engine doesn't start.

Whirl it over on the starter, and great gushes of fuel should come squirting into the bottle. If not, pump knackered, pipes kinked, strainer in tank choked, or something like that.

CharlesY
 
Thanks again!

I'm not sure what you mean about the gravity feed, I only have the one fuel tank which has diesel and veg oil combined. It must have been dirtyhands or tom69 in my other post.

I'm just hoping it's going to make a big bloody difference!

-Pos
 
Pos - have you changed the fuel filter since starting to use veg oil/derv mix in it?
 
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