poor smokey start

Having left the lander untouched for a couple of days i started it yesterday and it took several attempts and a cloud of smoke (which i presume is diesel), having read this:

Land Rover UK Forums,

which of these issues do you guys recon is most likely the culprit?, or anything else ive swapped the air filter, going to do the diesel filter in a min, and i will swap out the glows when i get some..

just a quickie, should the heater control knobs illuminate when the lights arte on?

put a burning rag under the fuel tank i bet your diesels gone hard

Hi,

Sorry can't help with your first question as I gave up smoking a few years back.

Yes - the heater control knobs should light up.

If it's a pre-face-lift hippo the control switches pull off revealing screws which will get you access to the bulbs - no probs.

If like me you've got a face-lift model you have to strip out half the dash/centre-consule to get at the little rascals - so I've had 2 of them out for over a year.

If you've got none at all, it could always be a fuse if you're lucky.

got the bulbs out, altho they are blackened they do look ok ill get some new ones tom hopefully thatl fix that little prob, surely they wont be on a seperate fuse?, i say that because all other switches etc are ok and i would expect to see something else down if it was the fuse?

swapped the diesel filter out so ill see how it turns over tom, glow plugs after that i spose altho 2 look difficult to get to at the waterpump end..

ok changed the filters and still the same, my next job will be the plugs (which look like they havn't been replaced until now), but i have a question is it possible to swap them out without removing the injector pump, and is that a complex job? or one that needs precision tools to put it back - is it a job a decent amature mechanic can do?

what actually stopped the smokin was as simple as injector cleaner and half a tank of deisel...

no more smoke, still a chug on v.cold mornings but im sure thats normal..

Try some low ash non synthetic 2 stroke mix in your fuel. The difference is incredible and you won't regret it.