My Patrol is jealous and is playing up.....
Can anybody guide me in the right direction to start looking? My MK TD started playing up about six months ago, the alt/fuel filter lights would come on for about 30secs-two mins about every couple of weeks after startup for abpout a month or two. I didn't worry too much about it as it always came good and it was only very occasionally it did it. Then about two months ago it wouldn't charge properly, sat at about 12.5V at the battery. SoI took the cover off the reg and did the age old accepted method of giving it a tap and clean the contacts. That fixed it till last week when the lights mentioned above came on and stayed on till I got home. I then went to do the same cleaning regime in the reg but as soon as I took the cover off the engine died and there were no warning lights on the dash. So I tried to restart it and it fired but shut off when I let the key return from "start" to "on"? I tried again yesterday and all the lights came on but as soon as I hit the glow switch they dissapeared....Has anybody else came across this problem before, as I will have to tow her to the autoelecs if I can't get it running again. I might mention too that these peoblems only started when the old girl saw a Laser parked alongside her in the driveway and the Laser started taking me to work.... She's probably jealous even though she still gets the carport and the Laser shivers in the frost at nightime. Maybe I need to threaten her with being taken out of the carport? Crikey I even started using her a couple of times to go to work during the week, what more does she want? Any help would be appreciated thanks people. :D
