Complete loss of drive ......airflow meter , I think not , did they check trans oil and level ?
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Complete loss of drive ......airflow meter , I think not , did they check trans oil and level ?
just fitted a knew lhf window regulator today, was going to do the rolltrak conversion every time I heard it click but waited to long, all fell apart and the regulator was completely bent up so got a cheapie locally. front doors are nice easy job.
p.s took the rhf door card off and yes the wheels are starting to break up.. oh well I'll wait for it to start clicking [tonguewink]
Drove mine 1.5 hours to look at a caravan. 5 minutes looking and my first impression that it was an old, overpriced piece of **** was correct. Drove 1.5 hours home.
Scared a new SS commodore in the spur on the way home by sticking to his tail. Gotta love ace. He left me for dead on the straights and I caught him in the corners. Good fun.
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Originally Posted by johnjohnson
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Originally Posted by johnjohnson
I wonder f it had just jumped out of high range ?
It wouldn't be the first time.....
The last time mine did that I thought a bomb had gone off,, :o
I think it could be in what johnjohnson describes as 'complete loss of drive'.
Does he mean loss of power and engine wouldn't run, or what we usually think of as complete loss of drive.
My D1 did the 'jump out of high range' thing one night too, which coincided with it spinning a bearing in the transfer case.
Like Pedro said, sounded like a bomb .. bang! .. me panic!! .. engine just spinning out no forward movement.
After a minute or two of panic state, thought to try low range and I had movement.
Then moved back into high range and also had forward movement .. BUT a very loud(unbearable) screeching noise from about 40k/h.
When brother first described his power loss in this TD5, he described it to me over the phone as 'no drive'. Car would struggle to go about about 60k/h and sounded like it was running on 1 cyl.
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I thought I'd blown the auto!
After I coasted off the road the auto made horrible noises as I cycled from park through the gears......
Bloody t/case!! :D
Wrong time of year, stinking hot, but still an awesome spot. Will have to make it back one easter.
Done nearly 4000 kms since leaving Perth on Dec 15.
Gary doesn’t like doing 110. Worst economy so far 14.7 L/100 on the Eyre highway. Best 12.3 cruising at 90 and enjoying national parks. Not bad with big roof tent wind break and a full cargo space. Love me the SLS on the bad roads. Such a nice ride.
foragingforvegantreats.com if you are interested in Gary’s adventures.
What your brother described is what happened with mine. Felt like acceleration was cutting in and out for a while if i was in higher revs. When pulling away from a stop the accelerator just cut out completely, but engine was running. Turned off and on again and went fine and was able to get to mechanic. Did another 300kms but noticed the cutting out of accelerator on and off when overtaking a truck when i had foot to floor.... overboosting maybe?Quote:
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We had a multi faceted attack.Quote:
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I had the car for a while and from help on here, traced one issue to the WGM solenoid. I did the bypass, waited for a WGM to arrive, and that fixed that surging.
Same feeling as you said. press accelerator, it'd go, then not go, then go.. etc. surging.
Turing off and on again tho doesn't point to the WGM, it's gone or not(is my understanding).
Running with the bypass hose tho isn't ideal and you get overboost and then the ECU cuts fuel or something.
So while it doesn't surge you have to keep your right foot calm and not over do.
Maybe you've got a stuck/seized wastegate and it's overboosting and ECU is coming to the rescue!
Nanocom is your friend here! Even tho you have no check engine lights on, there is almost certainly an error code stored as to the cause of your issue.
With the WGM bypass and issue, the Nanocom always threw out this driver input demand error. WGM solenoid fixed that for his TD5 tho.
Car went good for a couple of days, and I drove it to his place to get it back to him.
On the way back on the freeway it felt like it lost power only a few minutes from his place.
Got to his place, he had a spare MAF, fitted and car felt ok, but not ideal. Not like for the couple of days I had it after I fitted the WGM.
Turns out later we fund that his ECU has been mapped by TRS in Adelaide.
Following weekend we had plans to go away, and at the 12th hour he found a leaking FPR, beauty we thought probably explains the slightly sluggish power the day I took it back to his place.
The the ordeal started. We spent all day that FPR day not being able to get the TD5 running after we fitted a new FPR.
Totally dissed the weekend away plan! Next day TD5 still not going. would start and run now and felt smooth only up to about 60-ish k/h and past that point it'd die completely like it run out of fuel.
We re did the FPR, to no avail, we changed fuel pumps twice, first one was a cheapie he bought as spare and then a genuine.
Cost him a few $K's in parts, another new MAF .. etc.
We decided too take it to a specialist, as we were both stumped .. thinking head gaskets and all manner of stuff. Got a few comments re injector washers too .. made sense.
I drove it back to my home on Monday did some more testing but nothing. Only anomaly I noted was that the Nanocom readings for the Injector balances were not ideal.
Monday to Friday, no time to play around with it so it sat.
On the day I was to take it to LRA in Thomastown(near me) .. it felt quite OK, I pushed it to 70, then 80, felt smooth .. then hit the freeway and onto 100 and beyond .. no trouble.
When I parked it up it had this 1 or 2 hp issue, and having done nothing to it for a couple of days it 'fixed itself'.
He still drives it daily since this issue back in early Nov. He still has the injector washers/seals he got in anticipation of doing them.
The issue kind'a popped up again in a mild form(lack of power) and the only explanation we can think of was that when doing the FPR and the spill return line, we did put a lot of strain on the injector loom to ECU harness section.
I told him over the phone to spray both injector loom plugs at the front of the engine, he found one bent pin on the male plug connector too .. but I think he did that when he sprayed and plugged, unlpugged and sprayed again.
He didn't have any contact cleaner so just used WD40. He sprayed every connector for every sensor he could find and hasn't had any running issues since.
After everything we mucked about with, and I was convinced it was a weak fuel pump the way it ran good up to a specific speed, then die, and which you could avoid the dying by pumping the accelerator madly .. it'd chug back to life again .. but after all that we're now convinced it was the injector loom plug all along. Maybe a bit of grit in the plug that gave a bad connection, or a over stressed wire connection at one of the pins or something, but those Injector balance readings I noted on the day I drive it back to my place had settled to more balanced numbers.
We hadn't touched the injectors at all .. only that plug.