300Tdi Issue

[PanamaDisco]

A couple of days ago i was driving to get a pizza i stopped at the pizza place left the car running with a friend inside, came back and as soon as i shift to 1st gear the engine started to sound different than before by that i mean louder and kind of like a tractor, imideatly felt a lost of power so i drove back home parked the car I pop up the hood and found out i was leaking diesel, yes the fuel lift pump was damage, why, ill never know. So I installed a new one (LR original) i don't have the leak anymore but the engine stills sounds funny, it sounds louder than before and different specially during high revs and i feel that i need to get higher revs than before to change gears its sound like the engine is working harder and louder i also notice a little bit of more black smoke ,while shifting gears, than usual. I drive my D90 daily and is just not the same as before the lift pump got damaged, the loud/strange sound of the engine is making me crazy and as i said before louder during high rev.

What to do? Fuel problem? Air problem?

Any suggestions on what/where to check?

Peter

[Wortho]

Check your turbo hose's for any holes or softness(they can delaminate on the inside) also did you bleed your fuel system when you changed the lift pump?.

[jimfoo]

Maybe your timing belt jumped a tooth, and your pump just happened to be leaking all along. I'd check the timing, and if the belt hasn't been changed in a while, change it. If the timing is off and you keep driving it, you can ruin the engine, especially if it slips again.

[george easton]

ok along the same lines i have got a 300 tdi def and i have started haveing real truoble gettin above 65mph and if if does its as gutless as any think the intercooler is cleanand changed all oils and fillters does any one have any ideas

[Series 3 guy]

Originally Posted by george easton

ok along the same lines i have got a 300 tdi def and i have started haveing real truoble gettin above 65mph and if if does its as gutless as any think the intercooler is cleanand changed all oils and fillters does any one have any ideas

Check the turbo. When mine went it did the same thing. Did you have anything in the intercooler?? If you did it had to pass through the turbo to get there. so whatever was in the intercooler may have damaged the turbo.

[george easton]

there was a small bit of oil in it but not much and the interclooer have started to get a bit mankey on the out side have been gettinthoughts to get an alisport face face inter coller is it woth it

[Series 3 guy]

Originally Posted by george easton

there was a small bit of oil in it but not much and the interclooer have started to get a bit mankey on the out side have been gettinthoughts to get an alisport face face inter coller is it woth it

Yep. When I packed my intercooler up I replaced it with an Alisport.The Larger capacity makes all the difference in the world. Transformed the engine completly. Combine the new intercooler with advancing the fuel pump and you will turn it into a road racer.LOL. Make sure before you do that you have upgraded the timing belt tensioner kit.

[george easton]

if i open up the fuel pump before i did any thing with the intercooler would that make much difrance and if so how do u open it up

[gerhardlombard]

i am done with the 300tdi, blown 2 engines due to overheating, busy fitting a rover v8, from what i spend on the 300tdi engine, i could have bought a brand new land rover