Mr K
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This is insane... and took me and an AA bloke 45mins to suss out....
For sometime Mrs K has been mentioning a funny smell in the back of my '05 TD4 so whilst away on our hols last week (caravaning) I was a bit bored so started digging about and found that the O/S rear carpet was soaked in diesel
As there are no fuel lines inside the car I was well confused on where it had come from... no containers had been in the car so couldn't have come from a leak there.
I also noticed that the carpet under the rear seat was wet and down the slope under the seat, so it was flowing down from the higher level into the foot well.
So I called the AA (may as well seeing as I pay for it) and a very friendly chap pulled up 40 mins later (I was drinking a beer out side the caravan so no rush).
I had a suspicion it was something to do with the fuel pump under the wheel arch but no idea how the fuel was getting up into the car.
We pulled up the carpets where the 12v cables feed down to the fuel pump and noticed the blue insulation tape covering a join was very wet on the earth cable, so having heard of a odd problem on Discos in the engine bay with oil in the wiring I cleaned the wires and placed some blue paper under the wires at the join, then started the engine.... feck me there was diesel coming up inside the earth wire... so it was collecting and then running down into the floor pan.
We couldn't change the pump so decided to extend the earth wire and to push the open part of the cable under the floor pan so it would leak under the car rather than in it, seems to work as it now leaves a small mark under the car when parked.
The car is going back to the garage on Thurs as the pump was only fitted last xmas so still under warranty etc.
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes... diesel in the wiring, that's some high pressure pump...!
For sometime Mrs K has been mentioning a funny smell in the back of my '05 TD4 so whilst away on our hols last week (caravaning) I was a bit bored so started digging about and found that the O/S rear carpet was soaked in diesel
As there are no fuel lines inside the car I was well confused on where it had come from... no containers had been in the car so couldn't have come from a leak there.
I also noticed that the carpet under the rear seat was wet and down the slope under the seat, so it was flowing down from the higher level into the foot well.
So I called the AA (may as well seeing as I pay for it) and a very friendly chap pulled up 40 mins later (I was drinking a beer out side the caravan so no rush).
I had a suspicion it was something to do with the fuel pump under the wheel arch but no idea how the fuel was getting up into the car.
We pulled up the carpets where the 12v cables feed down to the fuel pump and noticed the blue insulation tape covering a join was very wet on the earth cable, so having heard of a odd problem on Discos in the engine bay with oil in the wiring I cleaned the wires and placed some blue paper under the wires at the join, then started the engine.... feck me there was diesel coming up inside the earth wire...
so it was collecting and then running down into the floor pan.We couldn't change the pump so decided to extend the earth wire and to push the open part of the cable under the floor pan so it would leak under the car rather than in it, seems to work as it now leaves a small mark under the car when parked.
The car is going back to the garage on Thurs as the pump was only fitted last xmas so still under warranty etc.
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes... diesel in the wiring, that's some high pressure pump...!
