series 2a diesel engine not starting

I have a series 2a and its been a while since I started it. So I chanrge the battery and tried to start it but to no avail.

I recharged the battery and nothing so then I primed the fuel pump and made sure I have fuel inside. Starter goes well but it just wont start. I made sure that fuel is arriving to the first injector and it is but now I am lost.

One thing I am noticing is that the ground terminal is getting hot.

Any ideas ?

Have you checked the engine stop / pull thingy is not stuck / siezed in the stop position?

It sounds as though first of all you need to make sure that all of your earths are tight.

Secondly, you need to crack off all your injectors, then get someone to turn the engine over and when you get fuel at the injectors nip them up one at a time in order 1-3-4-2, and you should find that she fires up and runs.

Make sure your glowplugs are working. That engine needs heat before it will go.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will let you know how it goes.

Bear in mind that if you have the original style glow plugs, if one burns out then they all stop working because they are wired in series. Like old Xmas tree lights. Don't test them by taking them out and putting 12v across them because you'll probably burn them out like that.

if yer ground terminal is getting hot ( that would worry me )

on a fully charged fresh battery is it spinning over sluggishly like half the speed any other car would

only reason i ask is that if the starter motor coils are buggered they will soak all the power you have just to turn the engine over thus draining the power from the glow plugs and making it fail to start

if like mine did the starter motor coils were so fooked they created a massive short fooked a near new battery then set fire to the main loom to the ignition barrel and then shorted back through the chassis as live and somehow turned the rev cable into something resembling the element from an old 2 bar lecci heater

it caused me to end up completely rewiring the vehicle and the smell and fire stains only went away 4 months into a full restoration

please be carefull with the wiring and things on the high current circuits

If your heaters plugs aren't working, set fire to a bit of oily rag and let the smoke go into your air intake as you turn your engine over.

Some of the 'old ways' still work!

If your engine fires up, then change your heaters for parallels.

Just cleaned the glow plugs, they still look as new. I also checked continuity with a multimeter and none are blown. LAndy still does not fire up. I am now confused.

The starter seems to turn quite well actually, so don't know if there is a short there.

The beast seems to be wanting some more rest.

my diesel will start without the glowplugs getting hot so i'd be whipping them out and cranking it over with a rag over each hole to check fuel is going to each pot

Is the glowplug light working? It never glows brightly - but must be working.

The light is connected across the resistor in the glowplug circuit and measures the voltage drop across it. No voltage drop - no power to the plugs.

I know your plugs are good but these things are very prone to bad connections even though everything seems OK. Connect a test lamp to the battery live and the other end to the top of No 1 plug - light should come on if all is OK. If not you've found the problem. If No 1 is OK try No 2 and so on, right back to the resistor.

I've had considerable trouble with these connections on 2 vehicles with sound plugs. Get it sorted and it should continue to work. The problem can be corrosion insulating one of the connections.

The thing should be pumping out clouds of white smoke when you crank it over on the starter if the fuel system is OK. If not you've got a fuel problem.

I have now primed the fuel injector pump and checked the fuel filter to see if it clogged. I also pumped the manual fuel pump to see if fuel arrived to the filter and in fact it does. So now I want to check if the fuel injector pump is getting the trigger from the engine in the solenoid.

I have 1 question. I check the solenoid cable for continuity and the cable is beeping when I check it to ground so it seems the solenoid wire is somehow shorted to ground. Is there a way how to test the solenoid ?

Thanks

Hi Guys,

The beast is back to life. I checked each injector to make sure diesel is running out and re-assembled everything then i primed again.

I connected the battery to my honda civic and tried to start and off it went. maybe the battery needed some help there.

well restoration process starts now


Thank you all ppl.

Now you're gonna restore yer battery??