well, I have finally done it, broke my TD - in an unusual way as well...........
sit back, get comfy, this is a long tail of stupidity and arrogance
I thought I had an oil leak..... possibly the rear main, as there was a nice little black oil puddle under my car, that was slowly growing over time
in Feb / March this year, I developed a problem while driving home on Tonkin Hwy (here in Perth) nice hot day, driving (as usual, like a Ferrari....) took off from the lights at Kelvin rd like a bat out of hell, then noticed in the corner of my eye, a lot of bad bad black smoke, I thought it was the clown next to me, until I started to hear a funny squealing noise, and realised it was ME pumping out the smoke........ bugga
it was over 45*, about 4.00pm in the arvo on Tonkin at that time
anyway, so I pulled over, and near on shat myself when I lifted the bonnet.......oil everywhere.........
shit...........
so I let her cool down a little, then put a litre of oil in her (all I had at the time.....) I knew she was leaking oil, I opened the bonnet, and found oil all over the place, so I thought I had done something bad...... so I thought a litre (all I had) would not go astray in helping it to get another 20kms home
so I waited until I could touch the rocker cover without burning my hand - righto, time to try it and see.......
very tenderly started her up - ok
moved off slowly (about 4.30pm by now, and traffic north was a lot less, at the moment)
1st gear.... ok
2nd gear .... ok
3rd gear ....ok (maybe she is fine now)
4th gear (90kms/h) faaaaaark whats that noise and smoke
pull over switch off and stress even more.....
faaaaaaaaaaaaaaark
ok, 10mins later, try again
all ok, 1st gear
all ok 2nd gear
all ok 3rd gear
get into 4th, keep it under 90km/h, all ok
no problems, I'll do 85 in a 100 zone to get home.........
slow slow drive home
get home, have a cuppa, and start stressing even more - what have I done, just what damage have I done............
anyway, Pooie cools down, I de-stress a little, and head to a mates house for advice
we tried everything, and was only when the temp got to 100* and doing over 90 did it squeal and start belching smoke, and also running like it was on cylinders as well
best thought we could come up with, as by now we had checked the dip stick (what a radical idea....) and found she was over full of oil...........
eh? tis leaking, and I have a shyte load all over the engine, and its OVER FULL?
worst case - o ring on front of pump leaking diesel into the sump
but the oil does not smell like diesel...........?
faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark
get her home and park her up, till I can think of whats happened........
a couple of months later (funds are available) drop the oil and re-fill her........
10.6L for a TD42 you say............?
try 17.5L
faaaaaaaaaark
new filters, new oil, see what happens.......
drives fine
well I'll be buggered, dodged a bullet there
anyway, I've used her a couple of times, off road (mildly.... for me anyway) and even towed my 2.5T van a couple of time........
all A OK
anyway, a couple of weeks ago (maybe about a month or 2) I was towing my Van up Greenmount Hill, and thought I had the handbrake on, or the one on the Van, so I stop and make sure
nope, but she feels sluggish and no power.,, hmmmm
get to the lights at Mundaring, and having a quick look around I notice some poor bugga has a car blowing smoke everywhere
took off from the lights, and FAAAARK its ME blowing the smoke........
pull over, un hitch the Van, slow creep home, and grab the other car............
spend a month looking at Pooie, and thinking, what the ferk have I done now
she is....
running on 5.5 cylinders
she is blowing smoke out the exhaust
she is puffing (like a steam train) out of the filler cap
time to strip her down and re-build her I think
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