25-01-2012, 11:17 AM
Hi all,
I had the van MOT'd yesterday and it sailed through as it does every year. I collected it form the test station and drove it to work (1 mile) and parked it up for the day. Last night i jumped in it to go home and it just cranked and cranked and eventually fired up chucking out a load of excess deisel smoke. Idle was lumpy for a minute but it then cleared itself and started at the flick of the key when warm or hot.
I did a search on the forum and elected to change the glow plugs, left it overnight and have no improvement. I tried pumping the primer to see if there was air in the fuel but it doesnt look like that is the case.
I did some further searchs and also came across glow plug relay issues but on the Mk 1 van so wonder if this is common to the Mk 2 as well?
I also noticed this morning that there is a small vaccuum type hose that runs from a diaphram underneath the throttle body to another type of accumulation/ switch behind the battery which has one end broken off!! Can anyone tell me without pictures what the two parts are that this hose connects, and whether this would cause the symptoms i am experiencing?
Just a point yto note is that the van has always started first time every time until the MOT!
Thanks in advance
Rusty
I had the van MOT'd yesterday and it sailed through as it does every year. I collected it form the test station and drove it to work (1 mile) and parked it up for the day. Last night i jumped in it to go home and it just cranked and cranked and eventually fired up chucking out a load of excess deisel smoke. Idle was lumpy for a minute but it then cleared itself and started at the flick of the key when warm or hot.
I did a search on the forum and elected to change the glow plugs, left it overnight and have no improvement. I tried pumping the primer to see if there was air in the fuel but it doesnt look like that is the case.
I did some further searchs and also came across glow plug relay issues but on the Mk 1 van so wonder if this is common to the Mk 2 as well?
I also noticed this morning that there is a small vaccuum type hose that runs from a diaphram underneath the throttle body to another type of accumulation/ switch behind the battery which has one end broken off!! Can anyone tell me without pictures what the two parts are that this hose connects, and whether this would cause the symptoms i am experiencing?
Just a point yto note is that the van has always started first time every time until the MOT!
Thanks in advance
Rusty