HonestJon007
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Last night decided to replace my lift pump on the newly purchased disco 1 300 tdi. Removed the high pressure pipes pipes to improve access and got the new delphi unit in place no bother. Went to start it and it ran poorly and then cut out, lots of trying to get it to run and hardly any success. Much removal and refitting making sure all was sitting correctly with no luck. this morning fresh eyes straight away I see the fuel pipes fitted the wrong way around. Refit everything correctly and it fires into life after some cranking to get the fuel through. Soon it settles into nice even idle and when the accelerator is pressed holy cow it revs like a f1 car with black smoke! Have a look under bonnet to see a drip coming form the filter inlet pipe. Remove pipe and find that it looks fire/heat damaged all melted and distorted and a small hole. Its in a shocking state an who ever left it on there needs a slap. Well goes to show starting a job late in the day with fading light and not really the best head on will lead to stupid mistakes, also beliving someone who sells you a 10th hand 17 year old discovery who says there is nothing wrong with it and everything works when 12 of 14 dash buttons do nothing as either disconnected or broken is just as silly( I did not belive him - but the extent of negligence has peed me right off). TBH I would have purchased it even if the seller had been upfront about the faults instead of using a blanket answer of its all been done, everything works bull crap. Now I am left thinking that this seller just wanted to get top dollar and has no care about the safety of the new owners let alone the potential to be left stranded at the road side. Still I love my new discovery and by the time I have finished it will be a 100% better than any attempt the old owner made and I shall be rewarded by having an ace motor to drive around in not a halve arsed more money than sense attempt at building a proper machine....Rant over off to repair that dodgy pipe...