white smoke & no pickup TD5

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Originally Posted by Alex 110

OK, so I drained the fuel tank, refuelled it after a 3km walk to the nearest servo to get a jerrycan of diesel. Started it up, a bit of white smoke for a couple of minutes til the pipes cleared, now its running better than it has for a long time - a puff of black smoke under hard acceleration (WOT to 4000rpm), but that's probably turbo wastegate adjustment - I had to play around with the rod to disconnect it & check the wastegate wasn't jammed.
Before anyone else jumps in I did not say I played around with my rod:wasntme:
So I'll be shortening it up until just before overboost & I'll be happy again.
Alex

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extreme way of cleaning the fuel system but will have done just that!. :)

on for the good oil, add ULP to the td5 tank for improved performance!. :angel:

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Originally Posted by Yorkie

extreme way of cleaning the fuel system but will have done just that!. :)

on for the good oil, add ULP to the td5 tank for improved performance!. :angel:

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:Rolling::Rolling:

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Originally Posted by Alex 110

Thanks Justin, I just checked my fuel receipts & guess what? $20 of vortex 95 went in the tank shortly before the problem started. That's what happens when you've been using a commodore & both need fuel at about the same time. My bad. I feel like a real dill.
I traveled about 50km with the mix in the tank. Am I likely to have stuffed the injectors?
Obviously I now need to drain the tank & the fuel lines - anything else I need to do? (apart from take more care at the servo)

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no damage i'd expect, thank goodness it isn't a modern common rail engine:o. just drain out whats left, drain or change the fuel filter and run a full tank of clean diesel through it:)
you'd be surprised how often we see this....
jc

Wow now that is interesting. I always thought you couldnt get away with it on a Td5. I know I once did it on my old D1 Tdi and ran beautiful after also . There has always been I guess a rumour that truckies always put a little unleaded in their tanks for the same reason .

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Originally Posted by justinc

no damage i'd expect, thank goodness it isn't a modern common rail engine:o. just drain out whats left, drain or change the fuel filter and run a full tank of clean diesel through it:)
you'd be surprised how often we see this....
jc

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Have had a few come in to our work, and luckily these older engines can handle a little bit of unleaded ! Just drain the tank, fill with diesal and let them run for a hour or two and its all good.

While reading this thread I was really thinkin it seemed like contamination. Lucky for the owner it was not faulty Injectors.