I bought a transit 2.4 cdci 2007 6 months ago. Along with the crank shaft pulley falling of on the M5 brining it home from the seller, it failed to start after it was warm.
I have taken it to Ford via my local garage and they said along with having two failing batteries , I had an unbalanced injector t(no.4).
I battled on with my problematic van due to lack of funds , and noticed that after driving it, the secret to getting it to start again when it was warm was to switch off engine and immediately switch the ignition lights back on. However strange this may sound if i did that after every journey it would always start 100% warm or not.
Having discovered this quirky but effective hack I thought id treat the van to a service and two new batteries (through my local garage).
The garage called to say that it wouldn't start after the service and they couldn't get it off the ramps!! after a day of fiddling with it they phoned to say that they had it running.
They advised me to renew all the injectors as after a leak off test apparently 3 of the pots were rapidly filling up.
The van now has an engine light on which isa low fuel pressure code.
My confusion is, before the service, it was running fine even ticking over , it wasn't heavy on fuel, Now it has a eml light on and it drinks fuel like a fish but starts first time every time with no uneven revs. ?
definitely injectors? and if so how can they suddenly go wrong?
could it be the fuel pump?
any help greatly appreciated
cheers
Grant