[JulzD]

Hi All

Am new to the forum but am also a proud owner of a 3.5 GDI V6. I have suffered from a similar situation with this error and have replaced the low pressure fuel pump in the tank as well as the high pressure fuel pump next to the engine. The car runs well now only issue is the engine light comes on intermittently. Would be interested to know what this guru looked at alternatively if not the fuel system.

I have fitted an additional Fuel Filter just before the high pressure pump as the main cause of this error is in fact the micro filters in the high pressure pump becoming blocked or clogged (I also carry an extra set of these filters with me in the car at all times as they are an imported part and not readily available 0 only about R20 each and you need 2)

Let me know if you want details of the additional fuel filter that I have installed. I can send model number and some pictures if required. Very simple to do.

[Brian]

Very clever to carry the filters! I searched for them and couldn't find them here. I'd also be curious how you fitted the other filter and where? Can you send or post a picture?

Thanks - Brian

[318K]

Very clever to carry the filters! I searched for them and couldn't find them here. I'd also be curious how you fitted the other filter and where? Can you send or post a picture?

Thanks - Brian

Brian,

Could you kindly send me contacts of pajero io mech? I have a 1.8 GDI Turbo, with check engine light on. Diagnosis shows abnormal fuel pressure. Last full- 53ltr tank gave me 320Km. I need this fixed.

Will be glad. Inbox me on ewaithaka@gmail.com

[Rayray63]

Hi Brian.... I inherited a 2000 pajero 3.5l v6 6g74 gdi ... have issues with fuel consumption being way too high, backfiring under load, no power to pull a skin off a rice pudding, so took to mechanic/s. Diagnosis from diagnostic tests is that it's a lack of pressure at HP pump on engine and that should be replaced.

Took back to 1st mechanic and we decided to replace LP pump in tank an filter first. Was running until he did that, now not firing at all. Mechanic seems to think it is likely to be electrical... but ...who knows. Is there a chance you could put us in contact with your mechanic who seems to understand the cause of fuel issues with the pajero?

We live in NZ so we aren't able to get him to sort it for us.

Can you please pm the details and if anyone has ideas on how to get the vehicle started now it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Dave

[GEORGE]

thanks brian called the fundi he fixes all the 3 pajeros gdi i have main problem was the fuel pump in the engine and the fuel filter in the petrol tank,he replaced the fuel filters and the fuel pump in the engine now they run great thank u rgds alsaid

Hello brother..many years later. Did you get the contact of the mechanic from dar?

[GEORGE]

Well, I finally got my Pajero back last 5 days ago and while I am grateful I still don't know what happened. I finally met a mechanic here in Dar that works miracles. Thru a friend who had a similar problem (and whose car is working now for two years without a problem), I called him and explained what had been happening. After I finished he said he could take care of it and that I'd have my car back in 24 hours, and not to consider paying him until I was satisfied. I gave him bus fare to Arusha.

Sure enough, he called me after 8 hours in the engine well, and my Pajero was fixed - guaranteed, he said. Furthermore, he said it wasn't my fuel pump, and he took the new one off and replaced the original so I could sell the new one. He said that the issue wasn't the fuel pump or injectors, but fuel starvation in another part of the system that mechanics don't check and don't know how to fix because they are too focused on what the computer tells them, not what listening to and feeling the engine tells them. Essentially, everyone looks at the pump, injectors and whatever else, but not the places he looks, which is why there are so many abandoned Pajeros in garages here. He says he worked for Mits here for many years so he maybe has specific training as well.

He's not really keen on explaining the entire problem to me, or anyone. He left my other mechanic at Bosch in the dark, but that mechanic is impressed and completely stumped. He clearly knows what goes on in these GDI engines and sees it as a way of life and a way of making a living. He left Dar the other day to go to Nairobi to fix two other Pajeros with similar problems, and I referred him to a shop in Arusha where there are several dead Pajeros (all fuel system problems) so he'll spend some time there making some cash and helping out some folks whose cars haven't worked in months.

My Pajero had spent 3 full months in Arusha unable to move.

My guy is available for travel and I'm happy to recommend him!