Recent content by Onionfarmer

Ok, it was oil pushing up out of the injector 4 port past the rocker cover gasket. In my case it looks like the cause was a blown turbo. Thanks for all your help with the other injector related problems!

Definitely not the cam cover bolt - I learnt that one the hard way in the early days.;) Just like the existence of the crankshaft breather.:D The more I look at this the more I’m convinced it’s engine oil pushing out at the top of the injector 1 port. I’ve seen fraying rubber at the top of...

Slow progress! Ok....pulled the no.1 injector (again!!) cleaned the shaft, seat, refitted with ceramic grease AND.....still blowing. I may be off on one, but I'm now thinking the oily diesel pumping out of the injector base is in fact plain oil. There's no longer any diesel smell to it. I've...

I know this is an old post, but for anyone with the same question I did change mine recently and did so without removing the cam cover / draining coolant etc. Its fiddly as hell, and you have to do it by feel, but with the manifold off you can get to the 2 bolts with a socket set - you'll need...

Aarghhhh! I think you lot have crystal balls;) All ok to start with, but pretty soon back to square one. Hell of a lot of cranking to start & I can feel it missing & I can see it blowing out behind the injector on the battery side (injector 1?) Where the injectors sit fills up with oily...

Ok, took a week longer than I expected but I finally got the time to work on it. Starting has been getting progressively worse & it had started spraying out oily diesel crud into the engine bay. On the plus side it didn’t take long to identify the injector 1 or 4? on the passenger side (the...

Thanks for that - If I wind up trying this method are you saying I need to remove the injector fixings completely? I was hoping to just allow a few mm of movement rather than worrying about it popping up through the bonnet to say ‘hi’

Wow thanks for the post & pics! I’ll have a go at it this weekend, hopefully I can get it out without breaking something!

Slow starting, a little lumpy for a few seconds and exhaust gas smell through the cabin blowers tell me I need to take a good look at the injectors. Since the gods of mechanicing enjoy torturing me I just KNOW this is gonna be a PITA to remove whichever injector it is. I’ve searched around...

MAF was the culprit. I tried cleaning with a purpose MAF cleaner. Visually it did the trick, but the sensor was still faulty. I’ve replaced the sensor now and have a happy engine again. Thanks for your help!

Thanks. 90% sure its the MAF sensor - I reconnected everything and went on the school run this afternoon - fault reoccurred - I had put the tools in the boot just in case, popped the bonnet & pulled the MAF connector and hey-presto! Engine revs again. I suppose I did also remove the oil filer...

It's only 'drivable' due to the miracle that is effortless diesel torque;) On the flat I can get 'er into 5th and do about 20-25mph on idling revs, she'll handle a modest incline in 3rd and pretty steep hill in 1st (I live at the top of one!)...though I'll admit at that point it'd be quicker to...

ok, drove it around for a while this morning on the school run then plugged the magic box in. I was hoping to get some 'good' data to compare with the fault, but the engine went to idling not long after and I had to limp home! I did at least get some data with the fault live... Two things...

Hmm..mine’s a manual td4 & no cruise control. Probably the same wiring loom though. I will try and check that nothing else has been wired into it for a power feed or something, thanks for the ideas!

I haven’t checked voltage to the pedal but I have looked at ecu data while the fault is live and seen the demand from the pedal registering, both on track A & B, but nothing happens to the engine revs. That seems to suggest the pedal and the data connections to the ecu are not the trouble, and...