Thread: 2012 BT50 5 cylinder TDCI - catastrophe!!!

Were you able to code them in? We fitted new injectors to a mates Ranger and it ran ok, but a bit rough so he took it to the local injector place and got it done. Made a world of difference.

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Sooo follow up time

I sent the 5 squirters to a diesel shop in Australia
Report came back as ;

No.5 - open tap - no spray pattern pouring fuel
No. 2-4 - failed pressure failed pattern
No. 1 - marginal pass


Owner stumped up for 5 new injectors ($2500 thanks very much) and just yesterday I plonked them in

Thank allah it started up and ran like pharlap
Pumping some smoke out the tail but idling beautifully
After some running the smoke has cleared and I think we have a relatively simply
Albeit expensive fix

Thanks all for help

Steve

Great it is all sorted.
My local mechanic has a constant stream of these vehicles,BT50,and Rangers,with the 3.2l 5cylinder engine in for injector replacements.
Most at less than 160,000Km.

Hi Sharmy,
from what I had read, the BT50 does not need coding of the injectors?
Happy to be corrected

The story came out after the fact, the ute was only a few months owned on Badu - It never ran 100% right!
They had bought it from Bamaga

Dollars to donuts the mainland sellers had a hunch and shuffled it off to the islands to die!

After reading 1000 horror stories of holed pistons in this engine when injectors fail I was a little surprised that all appears ok after a simple change out.

After three years on the island with some of the worst fuel supplies in Australia, having played with the clogged filtering systems of at least 10 vehicles and same number of outboards

All I can say is you can't pre-filter your fuel well enough! Always using a " Mr Funnel " and a couple filters before the VST or fuel rail is the only way !

Its not always the injectors that cause failures in these motors, (mostly no 3 , the hot one in the middle) the oil pump is prone to failure. I had a gear type fitted when my motor was rebuilt at 50,000 ks as have many others.

Bugger, Its only shown page one. You can get the whole story by googling " Engine Australia " web site Its a good read.