Hey, newbie here so hello

Just went to start the disco to leave work and it's going psycho on me

Just screaming it's head off when I start it up so I have left well alone and i'm getting a lift home! The head gasket and cam belt have been done about two months ago after the belt slipped and took the valves and moved the head, breaking the gasket. The engine has done over 230,000 miles now also. It turns off with the key and doesent run on. It's being fuelled by straight and proper biodiesel.

Whatcha rekon?

Cheers

 

Is the throttle sticking?

 

Hey, no all the linkages are as they should be and cable is free. Could it be the fuel pump? It turns off with the key so I don't think it is running on it's own oil or anything.

 

having never had the pleasure of owning a diesel land rover... let me start by saying I have no idea what i'm talking about, especially no hands on.
But googling it talks most often about the head gasket problem where it breaks down between cylinder 4 and an oil passage, running on its own oil like you said. But that would probably smoke very badly, and like you, I'd think it wouldn't shut off with the key.
The other thing that come up in searching could be a stuck or broken governor in the injection pump.

 

This is a video of the running on its own oil thing, this happens to alot of diesel's of all makes.

YouTube - Runaway Diesel Defender 200 TDI

I am going to say that your problem is in either the air intake or the fuel delivery.

 

Wow, that's crazy

Imagine if that happened to you when you were just sat in traffic haha.

I think the fuel govener sounds like the most likely problem, so new injector pump by the sounds of it. I also forgot to mention that I have wound the pump out half a turn to make it faster, which it did But it has been running like that for months and been fine.

Thank's for all your replies so far