Thread: TD 5 No guts no glory

make sure you havent blown off a turbo pipe, sounds like my old soarer when it blew off the turbo outlet pipe, absolutely no power and the ecu kept shutting down the engine cos the afm is showing heaps of air into the turbo but it was just blowing it straight back out to atmosphere

Check your turbo hoses, some have delaminated internally blocking the flow of air.

It could be fuel cut-out due to excessive boost caused by a faulty boost modulator or wastegate actuator. Does it get to higher revs on light throttle?

Light throttle is fine but it does not like the boot at all. Overtaking is a none event.

Originally Posted by Discopug

Light throttle is fine but it does not like the boot at all. Overtaking is a none event.

It sounds like uncontrolled boost.

Try some compressed air in the wastegate actuator pressure line. If the wastegate opens then the actuator is most likely OK. You can use a length of tube to bypass the modulator to connect the wastegate actuator directly to the turbo outlet pipe, thus allowing almost normal power (90kw instead of 101kw). The modulators aren't very expensive, so hope that's the cause of the problem.

Check for oil in the ECU harness. Very similar symptoms.
CraigE

Originally Posted by CraigE

Check for oil in the ECU harness. Very similar symptoms.
CraigE

Like CraigE says...also have a look at oil in wiring harness from rocker cover.
Tends to happen to earlier models around 2000 2001? ...before the Fix
Symptoms are no power and "limp-home" mode. Will not pull the skin off a rice custard.
My TD5 also ran rough/lumpy ie. on 4 cyls.

A spray of switch cleaner/solvent wash of the loom connectors may solve the problem for a very short time. It may also help you eliminate/isolate the problem.
ie. if the clean up fixes the problem then it could be the loom?
You can't really see the oil except at the connectors, because it runs down the inside of the copper wire strands.

Landrover issued a bulletin on this problem and there are other threads on the forum.

Anyway worth a look if it is not an obvious blown turbo hose etc.

Thank the input. I don't think it will be the wiring loom , it has been replaced and I keep a regular check on it by looking at the connectors when they are undone. I did have a bit of oil still coming through to the ECU which I cleaned away with contact cleaner. This area has stayed clean for a while now so I presume its out of the system. I will check the hoses today and try to test the bypass as well. Thaks for your help.