Technical 2004 2.8 diesel no fire

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Technical 2004 2.8 diesel no fire

Dr sheppard

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Hey team my next build is a 2.8 diesel ex ambulance into a weekend camper. Not starting, it turns over fine but no fire. LP priming properly fuel filter is new and all air is out of lines. My thoughts is the injectors are not firing, relays and fuses are all good. Could this be a ecu or imobliser issue??
 
If all as stated is indeed good,you need to get diagnostics on it. Unless there is something obvious to be found in the way of broken wires or dirty and corroded contacts and connectors, that you can find by looking around especially in the engine bay.
Weapon of choice now would be Multiecuscan, and the correct quality lead to connect it to a laptop or PC. The free version will do most jobs likely to be needed here.
It is possible that the injectors have no firing sinal, due to a failed cam or crank position sensor. Either or both may be at fault, but for both to fail together would be very unlikely.
These 2 items work in concert with each other, and if one is duff, the ECU cannot get coherence of signals and will not action injection firing, in which case the diagnostic will give the message 'no signal to injector' or something that means the same. Don't bother with a generic code reader, even expensive stuff like Snap-on won't cut it.
Plenty of stuff on here for faults like this, so have a search and hope you get some leads on it, or better, a fix!
 
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Checked Codes, no problems there, did some checks on the pump, injectors etc found no power to the injectors, now looking for the related relay and fuse. Having trouble finding a relay diagram, any suggestions??
 
Injectors won't fire until sufficient pressure is built up in the rail, can you check rail pressure with your diagnostic while cranking? It could for example be hp pump, hp pump regulator, rail sensor, injectors. Quick check worth doing is pop out the injector return hoses one by one and get someone to crank it, if you find one spewing diesel then you have a bad injector leaking pressure back to the tank.
 
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