Numbers dropped off when the engine was warmed up. Compression dropped to 23 in some cylinders. Mechanic did a wet test and the promptly rose, thus indicating at a minimum a piston ring problem. Will...
Numbers dropped off when the engine was warmed up. Compression dropped to 23 in some cylinders. Mechanic did a wet test and the promptly rose, thus indicating at a minimum a piston ring problem. Will...
Thanks mate for the input. I'm having the mechanic adjust the valves today and then retest, so I'll update on the findings when I get the new readings.
Thanks, mate. Working to get a compression test done soon. The guy I would get it from ran it for a while in his own Patrol (40k kms) without any problems, but ran into registration problems with...
Mates,
After returning from a 1300+km round trip on our winter roads, my engine has started detonating (I think) pretty severely.
The day after I returned (and the Patrol ran perfectly on the...
From my research, it is a DMF in the RD28TI (GU). More than likely I will be doing the work myself with limited tools, so no chance of getting the clutch or flywheel balanced or machined up here in...
I've seen quite a few different engine swaps on YouTube - even a few to a BMW engine. But I didn't have the time or the resources to do a swap this time. Maybe next time something goes I'll be able...
I'll just borrow one of your Patrols while I'm there ;)
Seriously, I'd love to visit the land down under sometime but that would be quite a bit in the future.
1999 GU RD28Ti; mechanical...
Now the next question will be "What's next?" Well I've got a list of future mods that keeps growing, but here are some things planned for the future:
Custom 3" exhaust and intake
Snorkel...
So now it's not just a head gasket that I am needing, but a complete engine overhaul - a full rebuild. Thankfully we were able to find a replacement head off of an RD28 non-turbo engine and had it...
After all of that, I was ready for the first trip up the winter road in mid-December 2015. I'll be doing a full write up on the trip in another thread, but suffice it to say it was quite the trip.
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In the meantime, I had picked up a few more mods and bits that I was anxious to install in preparation for a trip up the winter ice road here in Siberia.
SaaS boost and EGT gauges...
I was riding good for a couple of weeks - all was going well, until a parking lot incident ripped off a rear flare and revealed a whole lot of rust damage in the wheel well and fender area. ...
I managed to track down a turbo shop and got them to pull my turbo and check it out and they said that the turbine shaft had been scored and pitted because it spun a bearing. So I was out for a new...
Well after the fuel pump and injectors rebuild, I noticed a nice increase in power and driveability, but I wasn't completely happy with it. The engine still seemed to idle rough and I was getting a...
At the diesel shop they ran a compression test and found that all the cylinders were operating on the low end of the tolerances, but the #4 cylinder was even below tolerances. Outside of pulling the...