Fuel starvation??

I had this problem on my old VM diesel rangie, and it was the fuel filter.

A Mate had the same on his tdi converted rangie, but worse. Got recovered home after the RAC told him it looked like a dead turbo.

In both cases the fuel filter was the cause.

I have read about fuel filter problems in cold weather being down to entrained water in the fuel being filtered out, then freezing inn the filter.

I know you have recently done the filter, but a bad batch of fuel would be enough to water it up.

Worth a change as a cheap way of eliminating as a cause if nothing else?

MW

Thanks for all the suggestions. I got someone to have a look at it and he checked pretty much everything that has been suggested.

All lines were fine, petrol cap fine. There is a small gauze filter in the feed line from the filter to the pump - checked that and it was clean. It obviously wouldn't fault when he took it out! Fuel lift pump pressure was fine.

Anyway after having taken it out he couldn't turn the engine off. This is apparently usually caused by the cut out solenoid at the back of the injector pump. Anyway he replaced this and the filter and put a pump / injector flush in the filter before he put it back. It seems, crossed fingers, to be working fine now.

Whether the solenoid problem was pure coincidence we don't know, but he thinks it might have been a weak solenoid partially closing in the cold weather. Either that or a dodgy filter as has already been suggested.

Anyway, any further problems and I'll let you all know!!

Thanks again for all the help.

Jon