Fuel transfer repair.

[Cuppa]

Update - with a bit of useful info for anyone who suffers the same problem of the subtank gauge not working & the fuel transfer being disabled.

Had an auto sparky look at it last week.

I thought he was pretty switched on (pun intended).

Rather than dropping the tank to get the sender unit out, he went to his office to get a paperclip, then got under the car & disconnected the the wiring from the subtank at the connector. He told me that if he then placed the paperclip between the contacts on the 'car side' of the the connector & turned on the ignition that if all was ok forward from that point that we should see the sub tank needle go up to register full.

Sure enough with ignition on the sub tank needle slowly went up.

So this appears to confirm that the problem is that the sub tank sender unit has sh*t itself as I suspected. Tuck that little test away for future reference if you think it may be useful.

Prices for replacement sender units were a bit eye watering from around $450 to $500! No such thing as 'aftermarket' that I could find. Different for the deeper 85 litre sub tanks that the utes have. (Same for TD42 as for 3.0l models)

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However I managed to score one on a 'deal' off an ebay seller in Qld for $303.00. Paid an extra $5 for express delivery on Monday arvo & it arrived here (Vic) Wednesday morning. I was impressed by that.

Will be fitted next Monday morning. Hopefully will resolve the transfer issue.