New Rover: 2.25 diesel advice needed

[o2batsea]

I don't think the 2A key switch has 4 positions. Mine doesn't anyway. It's off, on, start. The glow plugs are just always on. On cold days you switch to on, wait a half a minute, then start. You must have the most powerful 2.25 Diesel on earth if it can tow a boat up a hill. Mine woulda just sat down and given me one of those looks.
I know I have a set of 4 injectors in my spares from the old lump.

[StX_Rovers]

I don't think the 2A key switch has 4 positions. Mine doesn't anyway. It's off, on, start. The glow plugs are just always on. On cold days you switch to on, wait a half a minute, then start. You must have the most powerful 2.25 Diesel on earth if it can tow a boat up a hill. Mine would a just sat down and given me one of those looks.
I know I have a set of 4 injectors in my spares from the old lump.

If your glow plugs are always on that will shorten the life of them. Plus they draw a lot of current. Someone might have changed the switch on your car. On our switch the glow setting is spring loaded like the start position, when you let it go it moves back to the run position on its own. It certainly seems to be original. Our diesel is a 67 and is pretty original. Even our friend's 1980 Ser 3 has a separate glow position. Not trying to be pedantic, just trying to save you some potential trouble down the line.

As far as the most powerful 2.25 diesel, the red lever is your friend when pulling a boat up our hill. When doing this I am glad it has a Salisbury now. I have this perfect vision in my mind of your Rover giving you "one of those looks".

[StX_Rovers]

A little bit of an update:

I have put maybe 100 +/- miles on it so far. It's hard to say as the speedometer works but the odometer does not turn over.

For instrument rebuilding of Smiths/Jaeger instruments go to Nisonger Instruments at Nisonger.com They are supposed to be the company to rebuild these instruments. A friend of mine who has a British sports car restoration shop swears by them. We will be sending the speedo from my wife's 67 88 to them at some point. The needle has fallen off and the odometer stopped working (I am pretty sure the cable is intact). Other than that it works fine.

[Kooolwaters]

I just bought my 1969 series 2a diesel and it smokes like a sift it seems to be over fueling loads of raw dulls and at mid throttle seems to be loading up and missing full throttle seems fine and idle to mid seems fine but my question is do you have a number for injectors and is their a upgraded kit for glow plugs glow plugs are not working at all


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[Kooolwaters]

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[o2batsea]

I don't think the 2A key switch has 4 positions. Mine doesn't anyway. It's off, on, start. The glow plugs are just always on. On cold days you switch to on, wait a half a minute, then start. You must have the most powerful 2.25 Diesel on earth if it can tow a boat up a hill. Mine woulda just sat down and given me one of those looks.
I know I have a set of 4 injectors in my spares from the old lump.

Back when I wrote that it was without the switch in my vicinity and I was writing from (faulty) memory. Yes indeed there are 4 positions on the switch. However now that the Tdi is in there the wiring is just a little different. I had to install a push button starter switch simply because I couldn't think of any other way at the time. Since the Tdi has to have switched 12V at the solenoid to open the fuel valve, the starter switch had to bypass the old one which kills power to everything but the starter solenoid when in START.
The push switch is now in the hole in the lower dash where the old pull stop cable was.

[o2batsea]

I just bought my 1969 series 2a diesel and it smokes like a sift it seems to be over fueling loads of raw dulls and at mid throttle seems to be loading up and missing full throttle seems fine and idle to mid seems fine but my question is do you have a number for injectors and is their a upgraded kit for glow plugs glow plugs are not working at all


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You should start a new thread for this problem. What color is the smoke? Grey? Bluish? White? Black? No "upgrade" for the glow plugs.

[Kooolwaters]

It get black and you can see it dump at times cause it gets really big puffs and sounds like it's misfiring .at idle it runs perfect and it runs descend at higher rpm but still has a burst of black smoke from time to time at hi rpm

[SafeAirOne]

It's been my experience that at speed, black smoke means my induction (intake) air is being choked off for whatever reason.

I've had it happen when the non-compensated injector pump is operating at high altitudes, causing black smoke that increases with elevation and where the power loss is so gradual that it's unnoticeable and I've also had it happen where the onset of the black smoke is sudden and accompanied by a noticeable loss of power, indicating an obstruction in the engine air induction system.