1.4TDi 90 Engine sort of fires then stops and wont restart.

Thank you for all your responses. It's helped me to come to a decision.

If I were doing this job myself I would go for the Bosch. But as I am getting someone else to do it I think I will stick to the LUK device if I can find one as it seems to be a straight swap.

The challenge I'm having is that of the sites I have found that appear to have both types (deduced from the photos) they all have the same part number and all claim to fit the ATL engine.

Does anyone have the part number for the original LUK pump fitted to the ATL engine?

Cheers
 
Part number of the LUK pump is 038 145 209Q which I believe is LUK 200303500 The same pump does fit all LHD vehicles and this is where is spacer is required for the Bosch on RHD cars. So the sites are correct but not specifying the differences between LHD and RHD.
 
Alfie Noakes said:
Thanks to the man who asked about "pointing downhill". In the two cases it hasn't started it has been pointing uphill. The first time slightly and this time quite steep.
I took my life and my reputation with my neighbours in my hands a freewheeled backwards down the hill and into a little entrance where the car was pointing downhill. I then tried the suggested method of starting and it started on the 4th or 5th turn, much to my happiness. And it's now parked facing downhill.

So, is it the pump or something else? There is no smell of fuel so I'm not sure.

How long does the pump change take for an experienced mechanic?

Thanks to all for your contributions.
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Replying to my own post here:

What is the suggested method for starting? (in red above) I mention it here but it's not in this thread. IIRC it was something like crank for 10 secs then wait for 30 secs.

As you can probably guess it's happened again.
 
Alfie Noakes said:
Replying to my own post here:

What is the suggested method for starting? (in red above) I mention it here but it's not in this thread. IIRC it was something like crank for 10 secs then wait for 30 secs.

As you can probably guess it's happened again.
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Roughly crank for 10 and pause maybe for ten seconds, do this three or four times then have a longer break.
 
CrispyEdd said:
Did you not fit a new tandem.pump then?
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No, I didn't. The problem went away, or at least I thought it had, as the car is mainly parked down hill. I think also the problems with the flywheel/clutch overshadowed it. I have noticed that some people mention a non-return valve, so I will investigate that.
Thanks for the replies.
 
depronman said:
Not totally correct. The Bosch pump and the LUK pump where fitted to the amf engines cars in the uk
Only when the bhc and atl engines came in was only the LUK pump fitted due to a clash with the electronic ASV fitted to the bhc and atl engines

The Bosch pump is consider to be more reliable but I had an LUK pump never changed on an amf engine at 289,000 and it was totally leak free

Paul


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Mine to
 
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