Recent content by newtodisco

Hello, and thank you I had a look at the timing and it was wound fully clockwise in the slots (advanced?) I moved it back a few degrees and it seems cured, I will drive it far a few days and see if it's a ex-grumble. Once again thanks, it would have been an age before I thought of looking there...

Thanks for the info I will check the timing, I had the plugs out and they lit up a treat. The throttle I will admit has been touched while churning, will stop today. Once the engine has caught and reaches tick over it runs perfectly no smoke picks up and goes all I could ask for in fact as soon...

Hello everybody, I am new to all this so please bear with me if I ask obvious questions. I have wanted to get my feel wet in the l/r world for some time the opportunity arose recently, I was offered (and bought) a '95 disco 300tdi auto (edc) which had been buggered up. The faults were; 3 ltrs...