Badger

Badger

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Sat at the roadside with a wee little problem. After the run to Basingstoke last night she got progressively worse, sluggish, non responsive and lack of power.

Took her out tonight and she has no power at any higher revs than on just above idle. Cane see any fuel leaks or bust pipes but I'm thinking either fuel starvation or air in the system?

She is low on diesel.
 
Managed to get to the garage and topped up the fuel, now she runs oki but the rev range is too low, it almost gets to a point and wont go any further, as if it's limited.

I noticed this last night on the way, she would sit at 50ish but no torque or power at all even on a whisper of a hill, even my leaky ol' 200Tdi did better, and would take forever to get there.

If she's sat idle and i rev her, i get alot of white smoke out the rear end, but i dont when travelling at 50ish or during normal runs during the day.

Usually i can pin things down, but this one has me abit stumped :(

I'm home now, so no need for the rescue ;)

Woulda popped in MhM but we never got home till 1 am and we left Torquay at 3pm....:eek:
 
Ah Badger, now if it had been a flat tyre that was your problem I would have known exactly who you could have a called ........................ and it bloody well wouldn't have been me :doh:



Glad you limped home safe and sound :)
 
check the coolant, as white smoke is either unburned fuel or glycol from antifreeze
 
Start by changing fuel filter and check air filter / intercooler / hoses etc.
 
fanatic said:
check the coolant, as white smoke is either unburned fuel or glycol from antifreeze
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I'm thinking unburnt fuel rather than antifreeze as she hasn't got any in atm.

Trewey said:
Start by changing fuel filter and check air filter / intercooler / hoses etc.
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Fuel filter was new on injun swap a month ago, only diesel used since then ( no wvo )
Will give the others a good looking over when the injun's cooled down abit, but didn't notice anything loose when sat at the roadside.

My confusion is why would it struggle to rev with low diesel ( still ran though ) but even with a full tank yesterday she still won't gain a good high rev range ( no high revs as such )
 
I had a similar problem in a 200tdi disco, head gasket went rather spectacularly at the side of the road a few days later. If I hadn't been raging about another breakdown it would have been cool as there was so much steam coming out the exhaust that it was like a James bond smoke screen!!
 
chezvegas said:
I had a similar problem in a 200tdi disco, head gasket went rather spectacularly at the side of the road a few days later. If I hadn't been raging about another breakdown it would have been cool as there was so much steam coming out the exhaust that it was like a James bond smoke screen!!
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Hmmm, this engine had suffered a blown headgasket before, hopefully it's not a repeat performance.
 
Does it improve if you remove the fuel filler cap - could the breather be blocked?
 
All good points, i'm gonna have a good look tomorrow evening, still recovering from the 10 hour drive last night in it.
 
Oddie said:
Does it improve if you remove the fuel filler cap - could the breather be blocked?
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This got me thinking as last night as the fuel line that runs from the injection pump back to the tank blew apart at a joint last night dumping fuel...
 
The ol' ' **** in the tank ' answer had me in bits...

Anyone remember the chalky joke by Jim Davidson?
 
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