diesel engine shudder when starting

Col,
gotta agree with Dave, now it is gunna be a little warm down there in Vic in the next day or so and if the problem goes away its a glowplug.

It is unusual to break an engine mount, although this will cause the problem. place a piece of timber under he sump and jackup the engine a little, then have a close look at your mounts, also look at the gearbox saddle mount.

Injectors normally just dribble and knock for awhile.

Thanks Stephen , it does it more when it's hot , it still starts fast , you don't have to crank it over for ages , not ever , icould it still be the glow plugs ?

Colin

This car has been in the family since new the ks are real ,but it sat arround doing nouthing for 6 years , i'ts done 12000 km in 3 months , i hope i get 700000 ks out of this car .

Colin

Thanks mike , i will get it checked anyway .

Colin

Colin,
Because the problem is when it is warm, that will rule out the glow plugs as they won't activate if the motor is warm anyway.

I had a problem with my old 80 series petrol with the injectors. This was because I had it on LPG and didn't run it on petrol at all for 9 mths.
The LPG bloke said that any impurities in the fuel will sit at the injector and over time will partially block the injectors.
I'm guessing that because the troopie was sitting for 6 mths you may have the same prob.
I virtually rectified mine by putting a bottle of injector cleaner into an almost empty tank so the concentration would be stronger and ran the motor on petrol for about 1 minute per week. After about 2 weeks the prob virtually rectified itself.

Before you get the injectors pulled out (probably due to be serviced anyway) put a couple of bottles (2 x tanks) of injector cleaner thru it an go for a good run, including a long hill at 3500rpm in 3rd gear and see if that fixes it.
You WILL get more than 70,000 km out of the old girl.

You may have to have the top seal replaced in the pump (if not already done) to stop the low sulpher diesel from making it leak.

Cheers
Dave

When all else fails read the book , thanks Grant , as stupid as it may seem , i have never read how to start the engine part of the book , but now that you have brought it up , i went and read the book on how to start a diesel engine , held the exellerator down half way as you and the book says and bingo , smoothest start ever , went for a drive , got it hot , turned it off and restarted the correct way and perfect , no engine jumping out of the engine bay,

Thanks again

Colin

Exactly what I do!

When all else fails, exhausted every avenue - read the manual.

Amazing how mange to sort things out .

Ian