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Are you overfilling with oil? 4.5L is recommended with filter change, some say a little less. Dipsticks can be way out, with 4.5L in it was below the minimum level on mine.

Glad you managed to sort it

Best of luck with it. Let us know how it goes

To eliminate that area of doubt you could always run a temporary permanent live straight from the battery just to see if it cures the problem

Possibly. Have you tested to see if the permanent live is actually live whilst cranking the engine over?

Where have you taken the supply for the immobiliser from?

Sounds like a bit of crud is stopping the float valve from shutting off properly.

Check the pipes aren't squashed where they are strapped to the chassis too, that problem stopped my heater working.

Is the pipe that goes to the heater valve getting hot?

How much anti-freeze did you add to the water? Over 40% and the cooling properties are reduced so your engine will run hotter

As standard it looks like there should be 1 belt that runs from the crank pulley to the waterpump, than another that runs from the waterpump to the alternator. Mine has just 1 that is fitted so it goes around both at once, and I see lots of JX's with the same arrangement. My question is can this cau...

If the LDA is knackered you wont get proper boost. All that wedging the thing open will do is increase the fuelling

I rang Halfords to enquire about that truck bed paint but it seems they don't sell it anymore. I'd like to protect a new bumper before fitting it as the paint on it is so thin its already worn off in places

From what you have posted it looks like the glow plugs are working as they should AFAIK. If you went to the pub at lunchtime on one of the hottest days of the year & then tried to start to come home after an hour or 2 I doubt very much if your glowplugs would come into play. I know mine wouldn't.

When its very hot weather I don't get the glowplugs heating but I thought that was normal. Are they supposed to heat up regardless?