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[hoofing it]

Well this is starting to become a saga.
I have no fault codes showing I finaly sorted out 41&96 pipes were perished.
The engine stalls when it feels like it more so when I select drive or reverse. it cut out as I got onto a roundabout tonight and stalled at the next 2 roundabouts.
When the engine idles the revs drop to almost a stall then engine kicks back in again.
Would the fuel pump solinoid cause this :-?
apart from the above it runs sweet as a nut considering ive spent £1300 on it

[charlie]

Is this the car thats had its pump changed??

[hoofing it]

Is this the car thats had its pump changed??

yes the main fuel pump was changed 3 months ago with a re-con and only in the last 3 weeks has developed the stalling.

[Omegatoy]

Hmm,What does it tickover at? should be around 700 800 if an auto i think? then when its dropped into gear should be around 600/650 if its lower than that  first i would be getting someone with Tech2 to increase the tickover 

[hoofing it]

Hmm,What does it tickover at? should be around 700 800 if an auto i think? then when its dropped into gear should be around 600/650 if its lower than that  first i would be getting someone with Tech2 to increase the tickover 

Tickover is between 600-700rpm and sits at 600rpm with gear selected.
its strange that most of the time when drive is selected it drops in smoothly but its starting to happen more in reverse the stalling.
I have to reverse up into a parking space and when I lift foot off the gas it stalls.
Ive checked the timing and it's spot on so as you say the next step is to increase the tickover

[hoofing it]

UPDATE
now i'm getting worried I just turn the steering wheel and the engine stalls :-?

[aaronjb]

That does sound like fuel starvation..

Turning the wheels (especially stationary) will add a significant load in the form of the PAS pump - if the engine is already marginal on enough power to maintain a tickover, the additional draw could suck into a stall..

It's not something silly like you're low on fuel and the lift pump is failing? Not meaning to offend you -- you've had a fair saga so I imagine you've already done the obvious, but sometimes the obvious things get overlooked 

[hoofing it]

That does sound like fuel starvation..

Turning the wheels (especially stationary) will add a significant load in the form of the PAS pump - if the engine is already marginal on enough power to maintain a tickover, the additional draw could suck into a stall..

It's not something silly like you're low on fuel and the lift pump is failing? Not meaning to offend you -- you've had a fair saga so I imagine you've already done the obvious, but sometimes the obvious things get overlooked 

Any comments welcome anyway im just off to replace the fuel pump solinoid with one I know works

[Entwood]

Daft idea .. but is the PAS pump serviceable If it is on its way to seizure .. it could be overloading the system badly Try running with the aux belt off for 30 secs or so .. just to check out the PAS

[aaronjb]

PAS pumps are usually servicable in theory - they're relatively simple affairs.. but in practice there aren't often service kits available

If I had a working EPC, I'd look.. I should really sort that.

Incidentally as an aside - you can discount it being the MAP sensor; mine ran just fine with the MAP sensor hooked up to nothing so it should certainly fuel fine at idle even if that's broken.

Which really only leaves mechanical things on the TD; fuel pump, injectors, and possibly lift pump..

[hoofing it]

I think ive found the fault.
When the engine stalled I left the ignition on and a noise like the alarm was coming from the fuel pump.
I unpluged the sensor at the base of the fuel pump and the noise stopped so at this moment im replacing the sensor. but mother nature has put a stop to that, yip its raining 

[aaronjb]

Injector pump or lift pump?

If it's the injector pump, the only sensor on it is the fuel temperature sensor, isn't it?

[hoofing it]

its the injector pump as far as im aware theres a few sensors in the pump which aren't servicable im not sure if this one is for fuel qauntity, and its still hammering it down here
Rains now gone off and thats it all back together and running there is a slight difference idle is a bit higher 7-750rpm not stalling(yet) touch wood its fixed

[hoofing it]

Just back from a wee run and its back to its old ways but not as bad its not stalling as much.
either selecting drive or reverse and just turning the steering wheel it stalls.
The alarm like noise I mentioned before is still there its coming from the top part of the fuel pump where the control cable goes in. I can feel the return fuel pipe vibrate.
this has got me wondering would the imobiliser cause this.

[erubus]

This is exactly what my old td used to do.  I could never get to the bottom of it and the two PO's I know of before couldn't sort it, and i think most sensors on it had been replaced at some point.  The answer we all got was that the pump was knackered and needed replaced.  but you're saying you got a new pump already.  Is the new pump guaranteed?  it might still be faulty.

any load put on the engine at idle (it idled perfectly with no load) even the rear demister, would make it cut out.  it would cut out trying to reverse up the slightest incline, when the steering wheel was moved, or when out into gear.  I got round this by tying up the throtte pedal so that it idled a bit faster (not much)  tied it up a little, tried moving steering wheel etc, saw if it cut out or not then adjusted again as necessary.  it got round the stalling problem, but destroyed the forward clutch in the autobox in about 3 months (destroyed as in no forward drive at all) and the car ended up getting scrapped.