Hello everyone, my first post on here so be gentle.
First off , I’m new to Land Rover and only have basic mechanic skills, but always willing to learn.
i brought my truck a couple of months ago, the first couple of weeks no issues and very happy with it, then one morning pulled up to a round about and the engine stuck on max revs, grey smoke everwhere. I turned the ignition off and the engine stopped.
I let the engine sit for 10 mins and started it back up and it was fine and fine until the next episode a couple of weeks ago.
I had a day on Salisbury plains and all was well apart from the last hour or so, when I dropped the revs to slow down my truck would stall? I ended up getting a tow home as thought the lift pump was failing.
I decided to give the truck a set of filters and an oil change and lift pump , no problems there and my truck started first time and ticking over nicely. I went for a test drive to see if it would stall, however only 200 m from home my truck accelerated on its own, I pulled over and switched off the ignition and it carried on running on max revs for about 20 seconds and loads of smoke?
i waited as I did before and started it again and immediately the revs took off to maximum. Switched off and over ran yet again and loads of smoke. I had it stall it to stop the engine running.
I have taken off the top intercooler pipe and the air intake from the turbo and both very oily.
I have been scratching my head since, any ideas please.
sorry for the long post , thanks in advance.
First off , I’m new to Land Rover and only have basic mechanic skills, but always willing to learn.
i brought my truck a couple of months ago, the first couple of weeks no issues and very happy with it, then one morning pulled up to a round about and the engine stuck on max revs, grey smoke everwhere. I turned the ignition off and the engine stopped.
I let the engine sit for 10 mins and started it back up and it was fine and fine until the next episode a couple of weeks ago.
I had a day on Salisbury plains and all was well apart from the last hour or so, when I dropped the revs to slow down my truck would stall? I ended up getting a tow home as thought the lift pump was failing.
I decided to give the truck a set of filters and an oil change and lift pump , no problems there and my truck started first time and ticking over nicely. I went for a test drive to see if it would stall, however only 200 m from home my truck accelerated on its own, I pulled over and switched off the ignition and it carried on running on max revs for about 20 seconds and loads of smoke?
i waited as I did before and started it again and immediately the revs took off to maximum. Switched off and over ran yet again and loads of smoke. I had it stall it to stop the engine running.
I have taken off the top intercooler pipe and the air intake from the turbo and both very oily.
I have been scratching my head since, any ideas please.
sorry for the long post , thanks in advance.