Thread: So, what do we have here then?

Hi All,

Slowly continuing my journey of discovery (no pun intended...) with our new Td5 DIIA. Opened the bonnet and, after removing about half an acre of black plastic, found the thingos pictured below. (When did they pass that law forbidding owners from actually being able to see an engine after lifting the bonnet?! )

First impressions are that it all looked gratifyingly clean, although obviously not just recently cleaned (i.e. not detailed to within an inch of it's life.)

Digging slowly deeper, all was looking extremely factory-standard (EGR, CAT, PCV hoses etc. all in place). Until I lifted the ECU out of it's hidey-hole and saw the label as below. So, it seems she has had a certain tuning ward waved over her. Any opinions, please?

From my reading of the service history and some old receipts, this would seem to have happened in 2014, when the POs spent an enormous amount on the vehicle at Graeme Cooper's in Sydney, after returning home from some years overseas. This seems to be when the optional 18" alloys arrived (anyone want to swap for standard 16" jobbies?), new front springs, Bilstein dampers all round, replaced engine mounts, rebuilt from prop shaft etc. etc.

The fourth pic shows a little oil at the red plug. From what I've read this is not uncommon? The last two pics are of what I think may be the (a) fuel pressure regulator and (b) some other cooler under the inlet manifold. Wotz this one? I have seen the EGR cooler in front of the engine, but I haven't found this one in the man-well yet.

Thanks.

ECU 1.jpgECU 2.jpgECU 3.jpgECU 4.jpgFPR 1.jpgCooler 1.jpg

Originally Posted by Leo109

The fourth pic shows a little oil at the red plug. From what I've read this is not uncommon? .... (b) some other cooler under the inlet manifold. Wotz this one? ...

That's not a little at all as it comes out at the back of the plug already...replace the injector loom ASAP and keep unplugging an cleaning the red plug once a week untill all the oil leaves the harness

as said, that's the fuel cooler