I am hoping someone can help me figure out what happened to my disco. Let me preface this by letting you know that there were no issues prior to this - my engine has been running great.
I was going slowly up a pretty rough, steep rocky road and eventually stopped and engage the center diff to 4X4 low for the next part of the road. When I went forward - the car stalled. So I restarted, and then it wouldn't idle. I was able to keep the engine running by continually pumping the gas pedal - but as soon as I stopped pumping or tried to hold the rpms it died. I was able to basically back down the road with a dead engine enough to get turned around - and luckily was only a few miles from home - so got it home pumping the gas pedal all the way, braking with my left foot and running stop signs! It sputtered and back fired all the way.
So my first thought was fuel filter (hail mary) which I was meaning to change anyway so I did that today - but it made no difference. Oddly - there is no engine light - no codes at all to check. There are so many systems etc I am at a loss as to where to even start. Fuel pump? Relays? ECU?
It still starts every time - but will not run without the pumping. Seems like a fuel issue for sure. Thoughts?
I was going slowly up a pretty rough, steep rocky road and eventually stopped and engage the center diff to 4X4 low for the next part of the road. When I went forward - the car stalled. So I restarted, and then it wouldn't idle. I was able to keep the engine running by continually pumping the gas pedal - but as soon as I stopped pumping or tried to hold the rpms it died. I was able to basically back down the road with a dead engine enough to get turned around - and luckily was only a few miles from home - so got it home pumping the gas pedal all the way, braking with my left foot and running stop signs! It sputtered and back fired all the way.
So my first thought was fuel filter (hail mary) which I was meaning to change anyway so I did that today - but it made no difference. Oddly - there is no engine light - no codes at all to check. There are so many systems etc I am at a loss as to where to even start. Fuel pump? Relays? ECU?
It still starts every time - but will not run without the pumping. Seems like a fuel issue for sure. Thoughts?