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Hi, check the fuel filter. Could be a fuel delivery issue. First place i would look.

I fitted mine so the arm from the sender faces forward (front of van) when turned into the locked position. Difficult to explain but hope that makes sense.

I am sure this has been mentioned before but just in case:

I did this bush last year and tried for ages to get the bush over the lip on the stabilizer bar. Top tip: leave the bush for 5 mins in a container/cup of almost boiling water to soften it. Went on much easier when it was hot.

If its done it for ages, then its prob perished pipes etc.. get it sorted, new breather pipes and fill breather and a filler neck rubber.. new fuel line rubber components.. check the pipes in the engine bay too.. what he says..... :ok Had exactly the same with ours in Serbia last summer..... :D cha...

thanks guys, decided to get the calipers off this morning and use the vice, drill, anything route to get the nipples out. Turnsout the drivers side caliper is cracked around the lowermounting bolt hole and was essentially being held on by one bolt! so thats knackered then. at least i dont need to bo...

any way a small bore copper or steel pipe could be threaded through instead? Just a thought, correct me if i'm wrong cos I probably am.....

The Van failed the MOT for having corroded brake pipes. Thats it, nothing else, so I was quite impressed. So, under the van I go later that night with a torch. Every main pipe you could see had the MOT testers 'chalk of doom' mark on it. Oh well, get on with taking them off. What a bloody nightmare!...

just a thought but one thing I learned from my landrovering days is that if you do have a small front end prang with a bull bar the mountings are usually the first thing to bend (it's physics innit, fulcrum point and all that) so the great big, steel bull bar gets pushed into the front of said vehic...

checked my posts earlier and thought i'd gone mad with all the engine and van things going on...

Righto, thanks for the info guys. Not quite as straightforward as I'd first thought but i do like a challenge! I'll let you know how I get on, might MOT it first with the DG engine but not sure yet. Putting roof on new garage this weekend so as soon as thats done it's dance of the engines time....

Ian, The water pump and all fittings are still with the 2.1 so will these just fit up to the existing DG cooling sytem pipework? Nice one....

good point mate.

Em, did you need to have the carbs rejetted or do they manage as stock?

rob, as soon as I get the injection system off you can have it mate! saves me falling over something else in the garage.....

em, No I have never driven a 2.1 but glad I have bought it now looking at the comments in favour of it. OK, sounds much more straightforward just to take the intake manifold / carb off the 1.9 and bolt on to the 2.1. Think i'll do a compression test on the 2.1 before it goes in just in case. sorted!...