Thread: What are the advantages of replacing the head for a new one on a 300tdi disco???

It'll be fixed, lad.

Pete

I would look at why it happened in the first place,were the valves burnt or had chips in them?.You don't want to do it twice. Pat

Originally Posted by Pierre

It'll be fixed, lad.

Pete

LOL well i hope so after paying that sort of money!!!!!

But obviously she'll be running better than before. Thing that i was worried about most was that she was smoking alot, i know the whole start up situation but when she idle's at the lights she smokes quite abit so i dont know if the head was the main problem or is it something else???

Sounds like very high EGT to me. Has the fueling been turned up?

Originally Posted by PAT303

I would look at why it happened in the first place,were the valves burnt or had chips in them?.You don't want to do it twice. Pat

Mate trust me when i say "Its a longggg story" check out my other post Major prob's After Major service but its realy hard to tell what caused it??

A month prior this all happening i went on the Otways trip #2 where i had no problems what so ever until i got home. Basicaly changed the water pump, new altinator, new battery and just my suspension. Still after all that i had no over heating issues, water loss or oil loss and everything seemed fine. Now the spanner working on my car right now says that the heads where cracked for some time and the gasket **** its self. So its really hard to pinpoint where it all started.

Originally Posted by brianwood

Sounds like very high EGT to me. Has the fueling been turned up?

No not that i know of BUT fuel economy was shocking!!!!!! pretty much ran like a petrol v8 only getting about 500k's on a tank.

yeah I'm lucky if I get that around town....., however I dont think my quick right foot helps and stop start traffic

Bad run Joker for sure. You were blowing a lot of smoke on the trip mate i thought the turbo might have been shot.

It is a lot of dough and you sure don't need it at the moment. But once fixed you will soon forget(until something else breaks).
Hope all goes well for you