Thanks for replying Peter, sorry for not replying earlier visiting Huddersfield.

The filter was one of my first thoughts so i changed it earlier.

Everything is pointing at the glow plugs i will be changing these at weekend, fingers crossed.

Thanks

Stew

Assuming the engine pulls normally once running along, i'm thinking towards a loose or bad connection at the stop solenoid mounted on the fuel pump, could be being triggered by pulling away, when you fiddled about putting the glow plug in you might have disturbed it, there could be a break anywhere in the loom.

I'd try putting a temporary feed to the stop solenoid from the battery (inline fused for safety) and see what happens, very basic short circuiting the ignition system.

On CAV pumps it was possible to remove the stop solenoid (can't remember if Bosch the same), remove plunger and then put the solenoid back on again, we did that on a mate's Orion when his solenoid failed till he could get a new one, it proves failure one way or another.

If you do remove the plunger you will have to stall stop the engine or loosen the filter bleed valve to stop.

Some of these pumps had problems when water entered the system through years of neglect, lets hope it isn't pump on the way out, good little car those worth the effort.

Edited by gordonbennet on 16/05/2012 at 17:53