Series 3 series 3 diesel smoking

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Bought mine from eBay. A Dutch seller, brand new Hella "U28" pump badged as a Volvo part. It came with a diagram to wire in a relay to save the load on the brake light switch.
If no luck on the eBay site maybe try Google electric vacuum pump ? Hella do the U28 and U30 both should be suitable, other makes are available.
 
Before further work have you checked the workshop manual to have it adjusted correctly, from Para 11 below
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steve2286w said:
Before further work have you checked the workshop manual to have it adjusted correctly, from Para 11 belowView attachment 233839
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that is very interesting... I shall definitely have a go at doing a proper check.
I also noticed the throttle body and inlet manifold are quite black and oily, I shall clean the filter too, and maybe retest emissions without filter anyway...
 
As it’s passed on the brakes and servo ( I assume) then for the retest they only look at what’s failed , so keeping butterfly wide open should get you through the test if lot less smoke , cleaning filter or removing it allowing more air in should help with cleaner combustion too
Link to manual if you not seen it before
http://www.retroanaconda.com/landrover/2010/03/series-iii-workshop-manual/
 
steve2286w said:
As it’s passed on the brakes and servo ( I assume) then for the retest they only look at what’s failed , so keeping butterfly wide open should get you through the test if lot less smoke , cleaning filter or removing it allowing more air in should help with cleaner combustion too
Link to manual if you not seen it before
http://www.retroanaconda.com/landrover/2010/03/series-iii-workshop-manual/
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Thank you Steve,
I assume that since the car left the garage they are required to do a complete re-test...
However I will go to a different place, as he's bound to pick up on something else...
 
hello,
thought I owe everyone an update.
so I removed the butterfly which basically loose the brakes assistance and it passed the MOT.
The brakes are basically like a S2 now but that better than smoke I think.

**on the MOT side, I obviously didn't used the same d...k again and find a very nice chap that was listed on the Federation of Historic Vehicle Clubs page of classic cars friendly MOT stations.
Been enjoying Rodney for 600 miles now.

thank you to all of you who contributed.
 
That’s good, You should be able to tinker with it to have the brakes work and less smoke might just be adjustment if the throttle levers or inj pump timing or fuel load
 
steve2286w said:
That’s good, You should be able to tinker with it to have the brakes work and less smoke might just be adjustment if the throttle levers or inj pump timing or fuel load
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I’m sure it’s possible, the smoke is much better when really warm, and only on re-acceleration really...
But it runs very well and quite quick (relatively)
 
I forgot to mention, it is still fairly difficult to start cold.
I am slowly getting the hang of it but it takes a lot of cranking everytime; fine when warm, even slightly.

My (best so far) cold method is:
hand throttle to notch 5
Glow for 15-20 sec
Crank at full throttle for 5-7 sec
crank again pumping pedal for 5-10 sec release and it goes
blue smoke for a few seconds then settles and no smoke.
release hand throttle to notch 4 after 10 sec, and let warm,
release hand throttle completely after a min or so.
it's a bit of a faf, but I'm used to it.

is that normal?
 
Jyt2020 said:
I forgot to mention, it is still fairly difficult to start cold.
I am slowly getting the hang of it but it takes a lot of cranking everytime; fine when warm, even slightly.

My (best so far) cold method is:
hand throttle to notch 5
Glow for 15-20 sec
Crank at full throttle for 5-7 sec
crank again pumping pedal for 5-10 sec release and it goes
blue smoke for a few seconds then settles and no smoke.
release hand throttle to notch 4 after 10 sec, and let warm,
release hand throttle completely after a min or so.
it's a bit of a faf, but I'm used to it.

is that normal?
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When I had the series diesel fitted and the butterfly valve , I used to give the 10secs of glow plugs ( I did change to the parallel types after a while)
Then with foot down all the way to get more air in crank until it started and going proper , didn’t stop cranking wait and then crank again, I would use the hand throttle if I wanted a faster tickover
If you have the original plugs fitted as these are wired in series one off all off, the later parallel ones more robust

Jyt2020 said:
oh I might do that, do you have overdrive? I do, so may compare...
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yes got overdrive but don’t think I used it in test
 
steve2286w said:
When I had the series diesel fitted and the butterfly valve , I used to give the 10secs of glow plugs ( I did change to the parallel types after a while)
Then with foot down all the way to get more air in crank until it started and going proper , didn’t stop cranking wait and then crank again, I would use the hand throttle if I wanted a faster tickover
If you have the original plugs fitted as these are wired in series one off all off, the later parallel ones more robust


ok thank you. so similar method apart form the re-crank, which I thought helps but maybe not.
seems normal to take a few turns then...?
I'll look into plug upgrade... is it costly?
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