Calling all landrover lovers

[testcricket01]

Me and a friend of mine have bought a r reg 1998 discovery 1 3.9 v8 efi as a offroad toy. Bought it cheap as its a non runner been stood for a few years.

 

We went had a look poured some petrol down the air intake fired straight up sounded good. Thought would be a simple electric problem like a relay or burnt out fuel pump, or the lpg kit.

 

It had a LPG kit fitted took all of that off it, checked all the fuses and relays all fine. Wired up the fuel pump to a battery that worked fine. Pulled out all the dash the spider alarm has been removed and bypassed already, had the ECU out all looks fine inside there. We cant for the life of us work out why we cant fire it up its got to be a immobiliser issue surely? The key turns to light up the dash put wont turn over the engine because someone has wired in a push start button. We wired it back to the key it will crank it for a split second then cut out and wont crank it again till you remove the key and move it away from the car and then go back. We get a good spark cranking it over but the injectors dont seem to open the computer doesnt pump fuel either so im almost sure its a case of the computer locking us out. The key has a 2 button fob which doesnt do anything, we replaced the battery in it still nothing. Short of ideas now apart from paying for someone to plug it into a computer or buying some twin SU carbs for it both of which will be pricey and cant afford to do it on a toy like this at the moment. What would you landy lovers be looking at next?

[Vespasian]

Scrap LOL

[testcricket01]

Scrap LOL

 

Well im not a fan of land rover so i agree with you there im interested in the V8 though you cant beat a V8 sound

[cornish wood burner]

As you say it sounds like an immobiliser or ecu issue. Have you tried hot wiring the fuel pump.

[PeteB]

I got an su manifold surplus!

[Logrod]

Have you tried sticking an OBD scanner on it to see if there are any obvious error codes showing?

[testcricket01]

As you say it sounds like an immobiliser or ecu issue. Have you tried hot wiring the fuel pump.

 

Yes we wired it upto a battery and it pumps fuel alright doing it that way still wont fire up though.

[testcricket01]

I got an su manifold surplus!

 

Does it happen to have a couple of su carbs on it aswell?? We could take that off your hands if so!!

[testcricket01]

Have you tried sticking an OBD scanner on it to see if there are any obvious error codes showing?

 

Not as yet, we have a friend with a big expensive computer he can plug in but hes real busy at the moment and trying to get him over to plug it in is the trouble

[openspaceman]

I got an su manifold surplus!

 

Does it happen to have a couple of su carbs on it aswell?? We could take that off your hands if so!!

 

I've still got a pair of SUs and turbos but they'd need major refurbishment now, also a 3.5 RR engine with weber twinchoke, all surplus now as I've only the 101 left and that's gently rusting away.