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The split boots are  rubbish.  Just get a proper job done.  All the power from the engine goes through the CV joints and without lubricant they wear very rapidly. New joints/ shafts are significantly more expensive than getting the boots done.

Hi there. The Lucas and Bosch pumps  have different pullies as the taper on the shaft is different.  I will probably have a pulley off a 1.9td Bosch pump somewhere, otherwise any breakers yards with any of the 1.9td engined vehicles will do. The later pulleys are visually different , being of a lighter construction, but are interchangeable as are pullies from turbo or non turbo engines.  They all have the same number of teeth ( think about it)  so that would include  205 306 405 406 BX ZX Xantia. The XUD engines were also fitted in Freightrover vans  and some Suzuki Vitaras. I also know where there is a 406 parked up with a Bosch pump.

Change the sender  before worrying about the engine.

Depending on whose advice you read if the milage isn't done , then the belt should be changed on a time basis.  Some books say 5 years , some say 10 but 14 years is really pushing it, however low the milage.  Please get it done , it could go any day. The cover bolts are a right little Ba!"£$%^^d to reach ,once the engine is supported and the cover is off , it's not too bad a job.

What you are looking at is a Mahle filter housing for a 2.0 HDi - dependant on year it could be either a Bosch or a Siemens pump.  This type of pump is not exchangeable for a Bosch mechanical pump , it is a completely different system. The Bosch mechanical injectors blow off at 175 bar . The Hdi common rail system runs at 2,000 bar or 29,000 psi.  It's like comparing hamsters and wellington boots, they don't have a lot in common......

Thanks everyone....

No mate , that is the fuel filter on a 2.0 Hdi.

The turbo 1.9 finished in 1999 when the 2.0 Hdi came out. The DW8 is the old school engine , it will run veg oil all day long if it has a  Bosch pump. The Lucas /Delphi pump is weak and will fail. 99% of DW8's have a Lucas pump. So you need to fit a bosch pump off an older XUD engine. These are getting harder to come buy and its a not a perfectly simple swap, you need to change the pipes as well , and bend them to fit the differently placed injectors.

The 2.0 Hdi, is a completely different kettle of fish . It is a direct injection engine , not a Ricardo design. The fuel injection system is a high pressure common rail system and will not tolerate anything like a neat veg oil mix. You cant , ' fit a bosch pump'  it's not the same engine design. There are people on the veg oil diesel  forum  who are having some success running veg/ derv/rug mixes like (90%svo+10%rug) 60% and 40% derv.

I've been running XUD's on wvo for the past 12 years, so have some idea of what works and what won't.

Sounds like a bargain to me . The old boy will have run the vehicle through the business , but used it as if it was a private car, I bet the business was still going , run by his son or someone > Write van off against tax, costs virtually nothing to run if the business is large enough to hide another vehicle in.   Light use , its what you want.

On the old XUD it was cambelt at 72k miles, I see no reason why the DW8 ( same block, different bore and head) would be much different, so due on age NOW if not milage . Most people now do belt, waterpump and idlers all at the same time. At 16 years old , the belt is absolutely due to be changed , 5 or maybe ten years at the most, it may have been done.......

Bleeding may help , but all sounds like the clutch is nearly worn out.  As the clutch wears usually the pedal pressure increases and the clutch releases right at the full extent of pedal travel .

Plus a relay to latch on , so the horn keeps on going  until the whole lot is switched off. I'll try and post a picture.

Those are hose , rather than electrical connectors.  I would think its  a filter of some kind either on the breather side of the tank or the supply side. After having checked its not damaged or leaking , tuck it out of the way and cable tie it there.