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Diesel Starter Puzzle

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Guest smokinslim

The problem can be found in the following thread: DizzyStarPuzzle.

 

I know little about diesel engines at the moment, got a feeling it'll be a steep learning curve as usual.

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Guest BrainFluid

I is the problem that you want to know what starter to put in your Xu diesel?

 

If so I can only reccomend going to the scrapyard and taking one off a 205 diesel. Failing a 205 diesel being about look under the bonnet of all the psa cars and the odd rover and one of them will have the same engines starter motor that your looking for.

 

Petrol starters need enough umpf to suck air.

 

Diesel starter need enough umpf to compress it!

 

Nate.

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Anthony

Any 1.8/1.9 XUD diesel engine starter will suffice - the scrapyards should be full of them from Peugeot 205/306/309/405/406 models (and the equivilent Citroen's BX/ZX/Xantia).

 

The solenoid wiring connections are slightly different between different models, but that's easy enough to sort out with a crimp if you hack a short length of the wiring out along with the starter.

 

Alternatively, you could always bump/tow start the car to get it home and then sort the starter out later...

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Guest smokinslim

Nice one chaps. Not sure if i'm gonna get the car now so might not be a problem but thanx anyway, it's always useful to know these things.

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