Hi,
I hope one of you fine contributors may be able to help me in my quest to fix an intermittent problem.
Before I explain, I just want to say how much I have been enjoying my Discovery. It's LPG (single point :() converted and I get about 180 miles on 70ltrs of gas. I have had it since April and it's my first Landy. Before that I had a Jeep Cherokee for ten years (About to go on eBay as it failed MOT).
Out of a slight funding issue I have started to do things myself that I would have never tried before. Simple things to start with. New set of HT leads, plugs and dist cap. This has always been somtyhing the garage has done for me. I am surprised how simple (ish) it was to do. I'm and IT bod by trade so I can see some logic to what and where things go but never had a go. I now enjoy getting my mits mucky with the car :)
So, to my problem; I think it is relativly simple to resolve but find the part is becomming troublesome. The leads the go into the plastic connector housing that fits into the fuel pump has a loose connection. It appears that there has been a problem here in the past as there is an obvious repair.
I am pretty sure it is the connector and not the fuel pump. When the car is running I "wigggle" the wires and I can clearly hear the fuel pump stop and start.
Firstly, is there somewhere I can get a replacement connector? I would then cut the old one off and replace with the new while also make sure the wires are fine. If this part is not available to re wire is there a good second hand supplier of such things so I can cut and splice to replace the faulty connection? This problems is no longer now and then it is almost every time I start the car. Going to the boot and giving it a wiggle to make the connection sometimes takes 30 seconds if someone is with me or up to 20 mins on my own.
Right, enough jibba jabba. Sorry to rattle on.
TYIA :o
Marcus
98 V8 3.9 Discovery with LPG
I hope one of you fine contributors may be able to help me in my quest to fix an intermittent problem.
Before I explain, I just want to say how much I have been enjoying my Discovery. It's LPG (single point :() converted and I get about 180 miles on 70ltrs of gas. I have had it since April and it's my first Landy. Before that I had a Jeep Cherokee for ten years (About to go on eBay as it failed MOT).
Out of a slight funding issue I have started to do things myself that I would have never tried before. Simple things to start with. New set of HT leads, plugs and dist cap. This has always been somtyhing the garage has done for me. I am surprised how simple (ish) it was to do. I'm and IT bod by trade so I can see some logic to what and where things go but never had a go. I now enjoy getting my mits mucky with the car :)
So, to my problem; I think it is relativly simple to resolve but find the part is becomming troublesome. The leads the go into the plastic connector housing that fits into the fuel pump has a loose connection. It appears that there has been a problem here in the past as there is an obvious repair.
I am pretty sure it is the connector and not the fuel pump. When the car is running I "wigggle" the wires and I can clearly hear the fuel pump stop and start.
Firstly, is there somewhere I can get a replacement connector? I would then cut the old one off and replace with the new while also make sure the wires are fine. If this part is not available to re wire is there a good second hand supplier of such things so I can cut and splice to replace the faulty connection? This problems is no longer now and then it is almost every time I start the car. Going to the boot and giving it a wiggle to make the connection sometimes takes 30 seconds if someone is with me or up to 20 mins on my own.
Right, enough jibba jabba. Sorry to rattle on.
TYIA :o
Marcus
98 V8 3.9 Discovery with LPG
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