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divethedeep

Member Since: 17 Sep 2014
Location: sussex
Posts: 32

Td5 cuts out

2003 defender that I have owned for about 9 years
Has started to cut out when driving. The engine management light comes on and engine dies. It will restart after a few attempts
Any ideas
It happened 3 times yesterday
Mark

21st Jan 2018 7:05am

JWL

Member Since: 26 Oct 2011
Location: Hereford
Posts: 3443

Oil in loom/red plug from injector harness, bad earth from ECM in the seat box, injector seals/washers but they will cause poor starting issues as well. Could even be crank sensor.
You could try a diagnostic plug in which may point you in the right direction.

21st Jan 2018 9:45am

mk1collector

Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 6769

Check your oil level Incase the injectors are dumping fuel in the oil Ray
My build thread
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html

21st Jan 2018 11:09am

bankz5152

Member Since: 02 Feb 2017
Location: South London/North Kent
Posts: 2063

My old 90 did this. Changed the crank sensor with a genuine unit, problem solved.

21st Jan 2018 11:50am

geobloke

Member Since: 06 Nov 2012
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 4390

Re: Td5 cuts out

divethedeep wrote:
2003 defender that I have owned for about 9 years
Has started to cut out when driving. The engine management light comes on and engine dies. It will restart after a few attempts
Any ideas
It happened 3 times yesterday
Mark

This sounds awfully like your ECU is on the way out. I entirely expect that if/when you check for fault codes it will flash up topside switch faults. This is usually one of the two capacitors within the ECU that fails to charge up causing the engine to just stop. With my 2003 it happened more often that not when decelerating towards a junction. Managed to keep the ECU going for over a year because the fault was so unpredictable, go months without any problem then four or five engine cutouts in a day.

Replaced the crank sensor, check oil in the loom, replaced injector seals and top loom to no effect. Replacement ECU solved the problem.

21st Jan 2018 12:47pm

divethedeep

Member Since: 17 Sep 2014
Location: sussex
Posts: 32

Thanks for the promp reply’s.
I will check the suggested and update when I have a result
Mark

21st Jan 2018 12:52pm

geobloke

Member Since: 06 Nov 2012
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 4390

Should have said a Nanocom or Hawkeye will diagnose the topside error in minutes. Someone on here must have one close to you.

21st Jan 2018 12:54pm

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