Black smoke....ii

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Soundsinheaven

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Defender 90 td5
All started when one of the injectors failed a long way from home. Had it fixed along with a new turbo.
Started to smoke black few day later when putting your foot down. Taken back to garage. Whom said nothing wrong was wrong with it. Claiming as it was mapped ( news to me) it will always smoke ( never did so much before the injector repair). Have been living with this issue for a while and would love to resolve it.
Cleaned out the intercooler
Changer the oil
New air filter
Disconnected the EGR for a while- no change
Disconnected the air feed to the turbo (briefly) no difference!

Oil is every where. Egr pipe to intercooler. Breath pipe from rocker cover to turbo. Turbo pipe to intercooler.
Noticed today that air filter had collapsed... Is it sucking oil from the rocker cover ( I did replace that valve thing between the breather pipe and the turbo)
Can't be the turbo as it's new. Not an Mechcanic so talk simple. No money left so can't just replace bits nor get it fixed in garage.
Any ideas ? done 76k also the rocker cover gasket keeps leaking. Replaced it twice. Normal or is it blowing out due to build up of pressure. Is it linked to the black smoke over fueling
 
Black smoke generally means over fuelling.
As the garage is claiming it's remapped (how do they know?) I would take it to either a Land Rover dealer or contact Mike from Dynachip to get it reset to factory settings.
Then at least you have a known start point.
If injectors have been replaced they need to be coded to the ECU.
I assume this was done?
 
Black smoke generally means over fuelling.
As the garage is claiming it's remapped (how do they know?) I would take it to either a Land Rover dealer or contact Mike from Dynachip to get it reset to factory settings.
Then at least you have a known start point.
If injectors have been replaced they need to be coded to the ECU.
I assume this was done?
Hummmm not sure. Such a long way away. Only one injector was replaced but all the injector sealing washers was. Along with the wiring lume for the injectors.
Sounds expensive taking it to a dealer! If that's the only way? Just don't want it to be something simple that I could of done.
 
I'd start by getting the ECU reset to factory settings as it could be the remap.
I had a load of trouble with remapping last year on mine, and eventually got the ECU reset at Land Rover (£125)
After that itran better than it ever had, smoother and everything, with no smoke.
 
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