Mazda engined mk1 Ford Transit

[lucas]

What a gem of a forum, heaps of great advice and none of the usual nonsense!

wish I’d found it sooner, took me a while to even ID the engine, then I had to find a set of push rods and on oil filter mount....

when end I bought the transit I was told that it has a ford courier engine, I now understand that to be the same as an S2 or Perkins engine, it also has a repositioned gear leaver hole in the floor so I’m assuming the matching gearbox too, I’m chasing replacement bushes to remove some of the play in the shifter, any ideas where I’d get them?

got a bit of time on the van yesterday, fitted a Subaru radiator ( the original transit one good for its home country of England but probably a bit small for Western Australia) and replaced the inter cooler hoses (yes, fitted with a turbo!) and after three months of not starting her she fired straight off so I went onto tidy the crazy wiring inside done by the previous owner.

went to start her today and she will not fire, cranks over, nice and quickly but not a hint of starting. I assume it was something I’d done with wiring so spent some time checking that, nothing obvious but I ran a wire from the diesel cut off on the pump to the battery just to be sure and other than ticking, nothing! I loosened the diesel in joint on the diesel pump and pushed the pump on top of the filter a few times and there is diesel there, so I loosened the pipe on the top of the injectors, turned the engine over but no diesel there..... so frustrating..... any ideas.?

thanks for reading all that.

Lucas

[DieselDangerRanger]

Lucas, is it cold? You likely have a firm grip on how a diesel in the cold state is fruitless at firing without glow plugs. Manual fire your glow-pluggy thingamajigers and re-test-fire.
Anyway, you probably already did.
That is a great bongo! I would LOVE to see the intercooled turbo setup! Cheers WEELSEY

[lucas]

had to walk away from it for a while but i'm keen to go again.

I read through more related posts and i saw a guy with the same issue in 2014 that was a glow plug issue? I don't understand how that affects the pump though, i'm still getting no fuel at coming out (well, there is the tiniest spray about the size of a pin when i released the easy to access pipe on the back of the pump
Summer in Australia so not cold
I put a new diesel filter on, bled it all, removed and bench tested the cut off solenoid, that's all good...

Where do i go next?

[tempforce]

www.am-autoparts.com/Mazda/Miata/shifter-parts/AM-1323290884/1010642.html?msclkid=a92964877824130b2e3705460658f414&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping%20-%20ECPC%20-%20AM%20-%20TransmissionPartsSales&utm_term=4584826051774696&utm_content=Shopping%20-%20ECPC%20-%20AM%20-%20TransmissionPartsSales

the Mazda/ranger transmission uses some of the early rx-7 and mx-5 parts.

[dieseldawg]

If there is fuel going into the pump, but not coming out where the injector lines are loosened, it sounds like the pump is not building pressure. But, it could be that the line going from the filter to the pump still has air. Just my 2 cents.

[lucas]

Thanks for the link tempforce.

Dieseldawg, I’ll take your two cents worth, how can I confirm/ get it out?

[lucas]

Another few months have passed and all i have done is rationalise the wiring from odd accessories and previous bad fixes

Still no diesel at the top of the injectors, does anyone have an engine wiring diagram for the S2 engine? I note a sensor on the right of the cylinder head with cut wires.... and there is a box with two multi plugs in it from which the wires just hang loose!

[lucas]

It was a trapped air issue! i got it running yesterday.!!!!

Now....what do we know about clutches? The slave cylinder does nothing, i have found parts (in the US) and was keen to replace the master at the same time but the pictures of the Mazda master cylinder for that year are different from what is fitted, my reservoir and hydraulic pipe are at right angles to each other

[DieselDangerRanger]

lucas, seems you're not looking for application-specific stuff, but off the shelf parts that will do the trick. Backing up, have you bled the system at the slave?

[lucas]

I did, we were not getting any fluid out of the master cylinder so i sent it to be rebuilt and have just collected it, so now there is a whole new hydraulic clutch system!

I will put that in tomorrow and then its time to start thinking about the sloppy gear change. Tempforce posted a link but that doesn't look familiar to me, mine looks like this....

[lucas]

[DieselDangerRanger]

That looks interesting! Congrats, you're knocking the repairs off the list.

[lucas]

I sure am, i'm determined to camp in it this winter!

[DieselDangerRanger]

No doubt that's good motivation to make it happen. I wonder how that linkage connects to the transmission shifter. I think the slop we see without linkage is probably amplified no matter what way you slice it.

[lucas]

Do we think that that linkage isn't Mazda then?