P38A Looking for Indy in Newcastle to do Injection pump Timing

Hi, as per the title I am in Newcastle (working away from home Monday-Friday), the P38 is a 2.5 DT, manual gearbox and 214500 on the clock, the symptoms are that I have to use the heat the glow plug three times in the morning before starting, it then it fires up and runs just fine, however after a long run (anywhere from 30 miles upwards) when I dip the clutch when slowing down or coming to a halt (lights, roundabouts or road blocks) it cuts out and is a burger to start draining that battery (neccessiating the AA and a friendly van driver over the past 4 days), I have read that this may be caused by the timing chain being stretched and the injector timing being out, so am looking for an Indy in Newcastle upon Tyne that can check and re-time the injector pump (rather have an old boy who knows how to do it than some fancy garage that looks it up in the book) any help info appreciated

Starting is knackered glow plugs. Stalling is a fault on the quantity control servo more than likely. You would need diag on it to see if there are any stored faults first of all. Then you know where you are. No harm in checking static timing though.

Wammers thanks for that, new glow plugs already installed, know anyone in Newcastle with Faultmate or similar? and it runs perfectly, only stalls after a long run, can drive about town without issues

Check the lift pump as well. After that I fear you may be right. I'm not sure how much Wammers will like it but you could try marking up the fuel pump and then moving it a mm or so towards the engine. It will only be putting off the inevitable, I fear but it might put it off a bit. Put it back where it started if worse.

hlaverty said:

Wammers thanks for that, new glow plugs already installed, know anyone in Newcastle with Faultmate or similar? and it runs perfectly, only stalls after a long run, can drive about town without issues

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Make sure they are working then. Pump timing can effect hot starts but bad cold starts are usually glow plug related. But as Grrrrrr says stall could be fuel starvation. Check lift pump function and change filter. Check for air in clear pipe after it's been standing. Diag on it may show something up. Recorded faults will tell a tale.

I've got Lynx which can do diagnostics on the diesel (not very well though, Nanocom is 1000x better but I've only got it unlocked for GEMS) and I'm in Newcastle a couple of times a week if you want to try reading the faults/live data.

Jacckk, thanks, might take you up on that offer, heading off home (livingston, Scotland) on Friday, then off for a week (to Sunny Majorca) but might try to arrange something for the following week