Thread: Sick Patrol

Originally Posted by Sprint

still doing it, making lots of white smoke now, cant smell any petrol in the fuel at the filter in the engine bay

pumping the priming pump at the filter seems to alleviate the problem at idle, tho anything more than that is a bit of an ask

totally gutless, flat to the boards in first she only manages a walking pace......

thank god i havent paid for the damn thing yet! lol

White smoke is a sign of incomplete combustion. Dodgy fuel and crook injectors can do it, as can a dodgy injector pump.
Injectors are approx. $98/injector to rebuild, and if you do keep the vehicle, get whoever rebuilds them to double the break open pressure, although I think most diesel place do that on the TD42 these days anyway.
That price you were quoted for the pump o/haul is about the going rate.

We've had similar symptoms (not quite as bad, though, just the white smoke and rough idling) on our Patrol a number of years back and it was a load of dodgy fuel. A dose of a good fuel cleaner fixed it.

Maybe try a good fuel cleaner like Redline RL2 first before writing the beast off ?