Diesel Engine Cut Out.

Hi All.
I was driving my 2000 P38 2.5 Diesel and it suddenly power surged and cut out. I left it rest for about 5 mins and it restarted and was fine for the rest of the day.However, the very same thing happened again over the past 2 days within half an hour of starting in each case. I would appreciate any help.

Regards.

Chris

Probably the best thing to do (unless someone's had the same experience and knows what causes this) is to get it on diagnostics, since that should tell you if anything's broken in the engine.

Diagnostics with live data will point to certain things....I would be looking at the FIP

Thanks, What is the FIP

Fuel Injection Pump

Diagnostics, also worth looking at the MAF, EGR and MAP sensor.

i had same problem i put new fuel pump and injection pump on still dont it

then dropped a vaule in number three cylinder but dont think that was the problem going to put other engine in on monday

does injector pump need to be coded etc or is it just straight in

You will need to use the electronic bits from the rangie pump if the donor engine is not RR sourced.

new engine out of bmw 525 will this do

when my engine was cutting out code was 142 and 144 with snap on tool
engine begin control i replace injector with wire made no differance to it cutting out

mercman15 said:

new engine out of bmw 525 will this do

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You will need to re use the Rangie Electronic top part of the pump to allow it to talk to the Rangies ECU

Also worth looking at the crank sensor on live data.

its a new crank sensor also infact second one first one broke as i put it in to far

now i noticed slide adjustment on these do they need to be set or is it just case off putting them in

mercman15 said:

its a new crank sensor also infact second one first one broke as i put it in to far

now i noticed slide adjustment on these do they need to be set or is it just case off putting them in

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They need to be set, also if the last one broke it may have damaged the the pins on the flywheel/flexplate.

any advise on how to set this there only about inch of adjustment

does any one have a picture of the flywheel on a p38 .25.dt so i can see what the crank pick looks like

mercman15 said:

its a new crank sensor also infact second one first one broke as i put it in to far

now i noticed slide adjustment on these do they need to be set or is it just case off putting them in

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As long as you do NOT remove the mounting bracket, new one should just slide in. If mounting bracket is moved you need a special tool to reset it. See RAVE for details.

what is rave

if the sensor not set right would that infact cause it to cut out stall whilst driving

mercman15 said:

what is rave

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RAVE is the LR workshop manual, there is a link to the download in the How To section or I can supply on CD with the EAS Kit.