Thread: 300tdi highway/cruising performance

Originally Posted by spudboy

Just $20, not $20 Million or anything?

yeah I reckon the tight beggar is in the money big style, just wants to do it on the cheapo!!!.
Nah but really, you mention 110 kph, I misread this as 110mph and remembered........................................ !
now 110kph is 68 & 1/3 mph no biggie, I blew an engine in my 300tdi (96) doing about 70mph/112kph, a blocked injector was blamed at the autotopsy, could have had something to do with the fact that earlier in the trip I was doing 104mph/167kph, now the top speed as I recall from the manual is something like 96mph/154kph ok only 8mph in it but it may have been to blame as it was over 40 odd miles continuosly!!, as you can imagine the wife was thrilled to bits (not) and even more annoyed when the replacement engine was £ 850 + vat + labour (nearly 2 grand in all shhhh), she wasnt impressed that the new engine had 45,000 less miles either......

Originally Posted by robzilla

will try and check this weekend the tappet clearances (anyone got a link to a guide?)

The first post in this thread has a link to a pdf that's quite useful.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...-adjusted.html