Thread: Big issues

white smoke? not enough air, too much unburnt fuel? unburnet fuel usually results in black smoke. Check for collapsed turbo to intercooler hose, will only be apparent when the turbo is pushing air through. The hose can delaminate on the inside and cause a blockage.

Could be a leaking injector seal, how is the oil? level? smell? does it smell like diesel? is it diluted?

There is a step by step thread with photos on doing a Td5 head here on the forum somewhere. I can't recall who did it otherwise I'd have a search for it. PhillipA maybe?

Possible turbo failure, check intercooler. It will have a lot of oil in it if the turbo seals have let go.

White smoke is poor/incomplete combustion and the only time I've experienced it was due to crap/poor fuel as SWMBO insisted at the time on buying the cheapest fuel she could find.

A dose of fuel cleaner and a tank of good quality (name brand) fuel fixed it.

Sounds like a sump full of Diesel, have you checked the oil level? DO NOT keep driving it, the engine is trying to tell you something You are lucky it didn't do this [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zx3qKX_Pno]Runaway Diesel Defender 200 TDI - YouTube[/ame]


If the sump IS overfull, IE diesel contamination, an injector Oring or cracked fuel gallery (new head req) are the likely suspects.

JC

im not familiar with the TD5?? do they have a lift pump?? wasnt the Tdi lift pump known to fail on the odd occassion and leak diesel into the sump...


Funny JC posted that vid, the only time Ive seen large amounts of white smoke was when I.................

Check the oil level in your sump.
If there is any raise then be very concerned as it is posibly fuel leaking past the O rings or copper washer.
This in some cases has lead to the linked "runaway".

My TD5 belowed smoke when under any throtle when the turbo blew(broke the shaft).
Symptoms where similar to yours.
Once the hose where off I could see the turbine wheel was not where it should be.
I had no raise in sump levels thankfully.

Have a look in the "The Good Oil".
There is alink to some very good "how to" head removals for the TD5.

Originally Posted by uninformed

im not familiar with the TD5?? do they have a lift pump?? wasnt the Tdi lift pump known to fail on the odd occassion and leak diesel into the sump...


Funny JC posted that vid, the only time Ive seen large amounts of white smoke was when I.................

No lift pump on the TD5's.
They use a duel curcuit tank mounted 12volt pump.

Hi thanks everyone for all your advice.

I checked the oil level and it is raised I'm afraid and diluted I haven't drive her for the last 4 days I've ordered new injector seals and washer. I haven't check the turbo yet because when I checked the oil it was raised so I assume that it's either a leaking injector(hopefully) or a cracked head!!

So going to get the injectors done next week. I will keep you guys update.

If anyone could please sent me a link on removing the head, assembling the new one together and putting in back in the Landy that would be greatly appreciated thanks.

I've been looking around the site but I'm not too good at the computer thing fortunately I'm much better with a spanner .

Thanks again so much guys

Kind regards

Thierry