I am guessing they are a bit of a mare to remove then the old injectors.

Yep, the timing belt snapped on mines and I had to order an injector puller from America (genuine miller tools one for the voyager).
There's a copy avaliable on ebay these days, for a little over £100. Don't know the quality of them though.
Mines was used on around 12 cars, and had a 100% success rate. If I see another genuine one on ebay, I'll probably buy it.

I'll bet your fuelfilter housing is leaking "air in fuel line over night. It's common on 2.8CRD becourse 2.8 dosen't have a electric fuel prime pump like on the 2.5. You can change the filter housing or get a re. fit kit with pump and harness like on the 2.5CRD high output.

If you got injector leaking "or bad return valve" and get low fuel rail pressure ,the engine control will set an error.The 2.5 model will flash the pre.glow light.Think 2.8 got an engine light.

Hi the fuel filter housing you mentioned the re fit do you know where i ca get one from.
thanks
Ade

You can get filter housing on Ebay or by the dealer it will cost you 100£ . The trick is internal in the housing some thing goes loos when removing the old filter and it's not possible to fix it. Hear in Denmark we have change a lot of filter housings (The top where the prime pump is placed).

I once saw a OEM kit in germany with a electric pump and harness made to 2.8CRD I'll try look up the number.

The electric pump on the 2.5CRD is only running about 5 sec. when engine is running the pump is off.

You could try prime the filter before starting , just to rule out the possible Air problem in fuel line.

2.8's have a hand primer pump just central between the RAD and the engine block, if you can push it till it gets hard and stays hard you don't have leak back.

Hi if I prime the pump it goes hard but never stays hard how would I recognise an injector leaking as it drive great once it fires and starts great everytime when it's warm, when it's hard to start and it finally does its a bit smokey and lumpy for 10 seconds then clears and never smokes again would this be the symptoms of a failing housing.

Thanks
Ade