It takes a long time to start the engine

It starts to insist is as if it stays in three cylinders once it starts does not respond well the same does not happen from 30 that is put to 100, I do not know if it could be varied the point or is the problem of the pump thanks.

Is a 1.8 TD? If it is that engine, the electric actuator that modifies the point and pump injection flow rate usually fails.

With the cold engine, put the contact and you will observe how an actuator that is on the left side and that wears a steel cable that ends in the pump moves, tense the cable and place the lever in cold starting position, you will also notice the sound of the electric motor.

If this does not and yet when throwing manually from the pump palanquita the car starts much better than usual, it is a symptom that either the actuator is chungo or that the temperature probe that that actuator commands that actuator has died and therefore the system does not work.

Another thing that also usually gives a lot of war is the air entrance to the injection pump through the fast plugs, so that the car starts and stops and then it costs a lot to put it back or diréctively do not start the first and you have to give fifty times to the start until you get it.

To find out if it is the latter (quite frequent in the Ford), it is enough to park the car downstairs on a ramp pronounced throughout the night, in the morning you start and if it starts well, it is because the pump has not been downloaded, if you repeat the test with the uphill car and it costs a lot to start it then ... obvious, the pump aspiration tube has been emptied and the pump has to suck the diesel again from the tank.

Another way to check and investigate it is to put a carafe full of gasoleum on the car and put two tubes, one at the pump entrance and another at the exit, purge the circuit, start and stop the engine. You leave it like that all night and if the next morning it starts without problems it is because the pump has not been downloaded because it is lower than the gas -fire level of the carafe.

The solution is to change all the rapid plugs of the tubes and the plastic tubes by rubber tubes united with spikes and clamps, like a lifetime, and put an anti -background valve in the pump inlet tube to prevent it from being discharged.

All the best.

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