300Tdi Issue - Land Rovers Only

PanamaDisco · 10-10-2008, 01:06 AM

A couple of days ago i was driving my D90 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

Dutchgit · 10-10-2008, 01:17 AM

Sounds like the timing on the injection pump might be out. Not sure how that would come though.
Maybe the belt has jumped a tooth ?
When was the timingbelt replaced last ?

PanamaDisco · 10-10-2008, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dutchgit

Sounds like the timing on the injection pump might be out. Not sure how that would come though.
Maybe the belt has jumped a tooth ?
When was the timingbelt replaced last ?

The timing belt was changed December 21-2007...

I will look into the injection pump and the timing belt tomorrow. Maybe the injectors are bad, my D90 (1998) already has 178,156Km. Time to change them?

Peter

Dutchgit · 10-10-2008, 04:14 AM

The injectors should be fine I think.
Have a look at the turbo/intercooler and associated hoses as well as the intake manifold bolts etc. Maybe there is a leak somewhere.

tacr2man · 10-15-2008, 02:28 AM

Have you checked your oil level ? quite often when lift pump developes leak diesel can migrate into engine sump