Thread: 300tdi turbo or turbo pipe problem

I was planning to ring up and order a suspension lift kit on Monday so something had to stuff up .......

Over the weekend my 97 Disco has become REALLY slow of the mark and blows a heap of smoke under load.
I've only owned it since Christmas, but it was a one owner, properly serviced, always garaged, 120,000 k's, excellent cond overall.

After reading a heap of stuff on here about turbo hoses, I checked mine, and have a few questions:
1 The elbow from the turbo, and the short bit into the intercooler look in good nick on the outside but are very soft if squeezed.
How hard should they be ?

2 There has been a few drops of oil coming from where the elbow hose joins the turbo, the clamp was loose, tightened it up and the local Landy "experts" said the oil was normal

It IS an airflow issue, the top tube from the intercooler collapses in on its self when the engine is revved.

So, Turbo problem or can one short pipe elbow starve the engine that badly ??

Can anyone recommend a good local mechanic that knows Landys ?

I have had it to two local mechanics that were recommended to me, a few weeks ago when the smoking started (no loss of power though), I won't be going back to the first one , the second bloke seems better ......

It was literally only driven to the shops by the owner's wife for a long while before I got it, and blew only a TINY puff of black smoke, hot or cold start at that stage.
The first weekend I owned it, I did 300k's on the highway, and noticed halfway through that I could now hear the turbo at over 2000 rpm, couldn't before that. From then on it smoked a little bit on startup, but went well and got better than 10 litres/100klm the only time I checked.

I took it to local mechanic #1 to get it checked out and ask about the smoke - no worries I was told, they all do it.
How about the turbo hose? I asked - the mech squeezes it and says it's fine, they're all like that, but your head gasket's leaking oil at the back of number 4, that'll be $2k to fix thanks.
NOT HAPPY, took it home, when it cooled down I put my hand behind the back of the head - no oil ...... so I went looking for a second opinion.

Took it to mechanic #2, a diesel shop, who supposedly "knew" Landys.
They checked oil for water, water for oil, gasses etc and said there wasn't a problem, but didn't seem to know what I was on about when I mentioned the turbo hose being soft, and had a bit of a laugh about Land Rovers always smoking a lot .....

So turning to AULRO for direction, any advice greatly appreciated.
Tim

Edit to add: If the hose has de-laminated, will the iit have clagged up the intercooler, or is it just a case of fitting new hoses ?

wow thats an amazing restriction!!
I might just take a look at mine tomorrow!!

David.