Hello all, where do I start.
I am new to this website and would firstly like to say thanks to a lot of comments/solutions on this forum I managed to get my 3ltr Turbo Diesel Jackaroo on the road and registered. So thank you.
I am just getting in to 4WDing and purchased a Jack diesel 2002 auto unregistered. Fixed a lot of steering issues that prevented me from doing a test drive but got it cheap so what the heck.
Got it home and found this website, resolved the steering issue and a number of others with help from some of you guys and got it registered. Yahoooo.
Ok time to give it a service (this happened the next day I registered the car) changed the oil 5/40 penrite semi synthetic filters and all.
Ok next day changed the fuel filter as I read that they shouldnt be done at the same time.
This is where it went down hill...............
Couldnt prime the filter......read that post with the video of the primer pump and realised that it needed a good dousing in diesel and a few pumps in the diesel to get it to pump, whole lot of crap came out.
I Fitted it and finally started after 2 flat batteries, thought this was a bit excessive but what ever, its running smoothly and starts fine ALL DAY (heard this before? LOL)
This is where it gets interesting...........
Next morning got up to go to work and hopped in and guess what.... it would not start..... it finally started chugging along until it got a good idle..... sound like i first started it when i sorted the primer/filter....where did the fuel in the line go overnight?....
Checked the filter for leaks when I got home with a bit more research on this forum and decided to give the pump 10 pumps the next morning before starting the car and before going down the glow plug rout.
Next morning pumped the primer, sure enough it started like a new car 1-2 seconds of cranking... Ok I double checked the primer pump and found that the non return in it was non existent so i replaced it with new toyota hilux unit and primed in seconds and started straight away...test is in the next morning....
Next morning cranked it with no pumping and no luck, #1^*# me.... OK... back on this forum...again.... took the fuel cap off over night.....bang it started.....ok $19 cap lets test it again.......next morning bang NO START.....next morning after leaving the cap on all night I pumped the primer found I couldt pump it 10 times only 3 because the new pump was working well...... bang it started Grrrrrrrrr.
So now if i take the cap off over night or pump the primer it will start so couldnt be bothered priming so I removed the little blue black 2 way valve near the filler neck that leads to air (no where) and it starts in the mornings
Now it is slowly starting to get worse...Also im starting to notice that the idle is not higher at warm up like most cars there for missing a bit.
Ive gone to so much detail because If some one has this same problem they can go through the same steps I did(thanks to this forum) to try and solve this.
I like my jackaroo and how it performs and drives so would like to fix this issue...
Can any body help.... Kind regard