Thread: Popping and farting just off idle

To start with I had a buggered lifter so I pulled the valley cover and manifold and switched out the lifters for new ones, not a problem then with new valley cover in place and siliconed in bolted it all back together and it ran well until it spat coolant out of one of the rear ports.

Seems it was just a stainless valley cover I got a coated one and switched it out which has fixed the water leakage problem but then I started having other issues which seemed like a Vacuum leak.

Eventually found stepper motor was cracked at the thread (must have disturbed it the second time the manifold was off) so I switched that out along with a heap of hoses that were old and suspicious.

Kind of got better but still had issues.

Then my second and last remote for the central locking/alarm stuffed up so had to spend a few hours sorting out the bypass and swapping out the immobiliser for a spider and fitting an after market central locking controller.

Changed out plugs, leads and dizzy cap, found dizzy advance was all stuffed so swapped that out for a second hand one which then I found the vac advance was not working properly on that either so bought another off a local guy who had just rebuilt it which is working great but still I was having troubles with starting and the coil was getting hot at Idle.

Swapped out the module for a bosch one (as per youbute sp?) and found that I had to whack a heap of advance on the dizzy for it to start.

Found the new cap was loose (damn bosch stuff on the rover dizzy) so swapped it back to a lucas cap and now is holding tune well, has power on both gas and petrol, idles well though does idle high then drops down in steps when first started.

On top of this one of the fuel lines at the tank has split or something along with the filler hose is leaking so I'm not going to be able to fill it with fuel again until I pull the damn rear quarter tank out of it which is a huge PITA.

But the main problem I have now is it's still a bit fluffy at Idle and just off idle at slight throttle opening it fires in the exhaust.

I've tried putting more and less advance on and neither changes it so it seems like another symptom of a bigger problem.

Any thoughts?

I want my 300 Tdi back, it hardly gave me any trouble I didn't cause my self.

Cheers Damo

Hey Spot on Bee Utey, fixed it.

Running as good if not better than ever.

Probably because the entire ignition system and all the vacuum hoses and gaskets are all new.

Just needs a decent gas system and it'll be great again.

Cheers Mate