My landrover tryed to kill me. HELP!!!

woods767

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• Feb 3, 2007

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Severe goings on under the bonnet (one of those old TDs). About a week ago my defender started pumping fumes into the cabin, litrally pumping, from somwhere under the bonnet. It then started blue smoking, thick blue smoke out the exhaust. Then, while i was sitting in traffic, i just touched the acceleator and the engine went full rpm on its own out of control. I killed the ignision but it took it a good 6 seconds to actually die. It keeps doing this, and its been making a ratteling noise when it does it. As u can imagen if decided to stop driving it untill ive sorced the problem/s. Can anyone make any sence of this? Im realy hoping a new head gascet will stop the smoke, but why is the throttle jamming open????


If u read all that im impressed

Thanks, Richard.

 

yella

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• Feb 3, 2007

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the turbo is running on your engine oil, you need a new turbo. dont bother with thne head gasket unless you are positivethat has gone as well

 

cartman690

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• Feb 3, 2007

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Is the oil leval correct it could be over filled and running on the sump oli...?

 

nomadafrik

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• Feb 3, 2007

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re over revving. Silly thing to check? The bolt on the bottom of your accelerator pedal isn't getting caught on your foot mat is it?

 

ormus

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• Feb 3, 2007

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the injun is running on the oil/fumes from the lube oil. disconnect any/all breather pipes and inspect/clean them. you may need new ones.
or just leave them off (pipe the fumes away) and let the injun breathe nice clean fresh air for a change.

 

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• Feb 4, 2007

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Sounds like your terbo has just runn up on its engine oil. common fault is headgasket. thats why the rev went through the roof!!

B.

 

woods767

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• Feb 4, 2007

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Thanks for the replys....mixed oppinions. No the acceletator isnt jamed on the floor, its a bad reving up, feels like the engines bout to leap outa the bonnet. From uve said sounds like the turbo then...expensive...
P38 owner, are you saying a leaking head gasket can cause the turbo to...what esactly? lol

 

yella

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• Feb 4, 2007

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not neccesarilly the head gasket, could just be a fukt turbo, i had it on a works van last year, you can pick up a turbo off ebay fer a few bob

 

GRUNT

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• Feb 5, 2007

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If your lucky listen to Ormus, if your unlucky listen to Yella. New turbos are £600ish. But and this is a big BUT they dont only fit them (Garrets) to Landies so if you did some homework you may be able to fit a tat yard one off some other vehicle. But then if your unlucky you probably wont.

 

woods767

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• Feb 5, 2007

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The place i normaly take my landy for surgery say they hav a good used Turbo and they will try it out for me...im still very concerned about the price he seamed to avoid it....

Richard