Thread: Td5 help

Anyone, any ideas would be helpful?

Have you checked the oil level? I can't understate the importance of doing this. If you are getting diesel contamination in the oil eventually it will start running out of control. Mine did.

Originally Posted by Frenchie

Have you checked the oil level? I can't understate the importance of doing this. If you are getting diesel contamination in the oil eventually it will start running out of control. Mine did.

I can second that, we drained 21l of oil/diesel from a mate’s D2 TD5 after he was told it was a turbo failure which he did replace, his symptoms did not go away. We replaced the injector seals and filled it up to the correct level. After about 2 weeks you could see the level rise again so we did a heart transplant. The heads on the TD5's can become pores and leak diesel from the fuel gully into the oil.

Best you catch this before your engine starts to run on it's own oil even when you have the keys in you hand. Have a look on youtube for "diesel runaway", some scary clips to be found.

Cheers, Jurgens.

Hi, got running again yesterday still puffing & chugging blackish grey smoke & missing by sounds of it but when put under load smoke changes to whitish smoke, could be turbo failure causing miss & chugging/missing due to previous diesel/oil contamination? Also is there anyone near maleny QLD with a hawkeye or nanocom I could pay for a lend of for some sort of diagnosis?

Thanks

Have you spoken with the guys that did the head work yet ?


Martyn

Everything was fine with head, pressure & crack tested all good & hardness aswell, just strange that happened not straight away but about week later, someone tole me that could be hydraulic timing tensioner failed with all oil/diesel contamination, not keeping timing aligned. Or possible turbo failure as said in previous post.

Symtoms sound like petrol in the diesel. Do a flash point test. Put some of the fuel on a rag and throw a match at it.

Originally Posted by strangy

Timing wrong. Possibly the camshaft bolts werent torqued after initial timing and reassembly.?

Hello,

After reading your description, this is exactly what I thought of. Have you checked yet? The sprocket it on slots and if not tight enough will eventually slip.

Steve