evening, my brother in laws 53 plate golf tdi arl engine died on him last night and won't restart. he said it just cut out and wouldn't go again. ive had it on vagcom and no fault codes are showing, the car will fire and run briefly if i spray carb cleaner down the air intake. you can hear the lift pump prime when you turn the ignition on and i can draw fuel all the way round the system to the thermo switch at the fuel filter using a hand vacuum pump im now at a loss as to what to check next.

ive removed the rocker cover, the camshaft looks in good condition, i was hoping to be able to examine the output from the cam mounted tandem pump but this doesn't seem possible, is there a way to test the tandem pump? i doubt all 4 injectors have gone together and if one had i would expect a fault code and some running issues but the car was running fine, is there anyway to test the lift pump aswell apart from listening for it priming?

any help would be appreciated

chris

Edited by thomp1983 on 09/02/2014 at 22:34