My 306 D Turbo won't start :-(

[mat205125]

I've owned my bargain banger 306 for a month or two now, and it has started every morning without fail .... By without fail, I mean that it starts each time, lumpily for a few seconds as some lazy person has obviously never changed the difficult glow plug, and grudgingly as the battery is a long way past its best. Past its best to the point that it finally refused to supply enough oomph to summon life from the car the other morning.

I've bit the bullet, and fitted a new battery, however the car still wont start. The glow plug light goes out, and the engine cranks. It sounds like it wants to go, and splutters a chuff of diesel smoke out the rear, however will not catch.

Is there something easy that I am missing that should happen when a battery is changed?

Could it be that my cranking has flooded the engine?

I've left the car for 36 hours now, and plan to look again in the morning with the ambition that a bit of time might have allowed excess diesel to evaporate from the cylinders, or soak past the rings.

Any advise on where to go when this inevitably fails would be massively appreicated.

M

[steve j]

Have you put in new glowplugs ? try this site www.pug306.net

[mat205125]

Gave up and now the car is on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

[Kitchski]

Air leak in the fuel i expect

[megamaniac]

Does it have the fuel shut off solonoid on the inner wing near the cam belt?

[hifihigh]

Yeah my dads 405 turbo diesel had a similar problem where the starter would turn the engine over but it wouldn't fire up. Turned out one of the fuel lines that goes between the injectors was cracked and air was getting in there. Try sqeezing that bulb in the fuel line at the side of the engine a few times then starting it as this should draw fuel through.