Anyone Know a good Arsonist!!

I'm just about sick of my damn Disco

Referring back to http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/still-got-issues-300tdi-91973.html, I finally got what I thought was the answer when I had the mobile diagnostic guy from our area come out and work his computer magic.

His computers revealed 4 faults, 3 of which cleared but the 4th (code 9) would not. It showed an engine speed sensor fault. I followed this through and was told it was almost certainly the crank sensor. This is an absolute b*****d to change on the 300TDi Auto and entailed around 11 hours of work by a local Landy mechanic and myself only to find out that the fault was not cured! . I would try the No.4 injector (the one with the pressure sensor inside for the ECU input) but at £200+ I am not going to fit yet another part only to find out it is not the culprit. (BTW, if anyone has a known good one I can try then feel free to step forward )

The white smoke now still pours out at all revs (just slightly less at low revs) and the 'check engine' light comes on at around 1600rpm whereas before the sensor change it was on all the time.

If anyone out there has any ideas I would be very open to them as I am just about ready to push this heap-of-s**t off the nearest cliff (if we had any).

Here's waiting for the guy with the golden knowledge to reply.....


Cheers.

John

I realise you have had the compression tested but white smoke out of the exhaust smacks of coolant leak, cracked head or head gasket. Considering what you have gone through so far it may be worth taking the head off and checking it properly.

fit 200 tdi...or fill with stop leak and sell..

Where are you based?

You can do a simple test: take off the air intake pipe from the Turbo to the intercooler, you'll probably find its very oily., then take the air intake of the Turbo and see if there's any play in the turbo vanes. If that is the case also check the pipe from the intercooler to the manifold as this will also be oily, everything will need a thorough clean including the intercooler..........for me it sounds like a Turbo problem, when it goes it usually "suck" oil from the engine and 'feeds' itself with it, hence the engine revs increase and you loose oil..........at least this happens with the Td5.......i'm a bit unexperienced in TDi's.....just try to give a hint.

Don't burn it yet.....everything made by man can be fixed by man.

KevsTD5, it is not coolant mate I'm sure, it's most definitely unburnt diesel and lots of it!

Taxed, I'm based near Swindon Wilts.

Sierafery, the revs don't increase at the moment.

I went out tonight and made a blanking plate for the EGR and fitted it as the pipes from the air inlet and manifold from the EGR valve are well caked so it's obviously foobarred.

The engne starts pretty well and after an initial rise to around 1100rpm settles quickly to about 800rpm. The engine light is out and the smoke from the exhaust is minimal. When I press the pedal the revs rise quite cleanly until about 1200 then if I hold it at around 1500 it seems to miss occassionally, if I take the revs up to above around 2000 for any length of time the 'check engine' light comes on. From around 1100 onwards the smoke just gets worse and worse the more I press the accelerator. I also tried disconnecting the No.4 injector lead from the plug once the engine was running (it won't start if it's not plugged in) and the only difference was the fact that the 'check engine' light comes on permanently (whoch makes me think it is not likely to be the injector sensor?).

Can't think of anything else to add.

JB