In brief my P38 is now running (mostly) very well on a replacement engine with about 120k on it. Engine was in a few days before a big trip to the Isle of Mull last August, and it performed faultlessly until the way home when it stuttered and died, Nanocom showed a fuelling issue fault logged, it started straight away and appeared to run well so we continued. All in all it happened a handful of times on the remainder of the journey.... not always bringing us to a stop, mostly it cleared and picked up again. I put it down to dirty fuel, put some Redex in the system and changed the new filter for a clean one. Since then it happened only a couple of times on local runs and I subsequently did a trip to Stonehaven near Aberdeen without any trouble at all. Cured I thought........... no!
Happened again yesterday and today on local runs, yesterday I was down to 1/4 tank (hoping the price would go down!) but now I have filled up and it still happened.
In tank sender/pump unit isn't that old... filter is very fresh.... am I just being unlucky with diesel or does it indicate some other problem? Any thoughts or previous experience of similar appreciated.
Well,.. its definitely oily! .... I knew I was down on compression on number 6, but reckoned that as it still ran well enough I would risk a trip. Fact is it has been off the road for most of lockdown and this is my first trip beyond Tesco or the local hospital..... 500+km, ....4 litres of engine oil and 2 litres of coolant later.... (and one tricky moment when it wouldn't restart!) we arrived in S.E. Kent.
Most of the oil was blown out of the dipstick vent hole, .... and I found quite a bit of it lathered over the rear tailgate!
We are now in Kent for at least a couple of weeks (probably more now, but don't tell the wife!) and the best quick fix I can think of is a good second hand engine,... any good thoughts / leads / etc. would be really appreciated. I have friends and some tools and some wrenching / lifting / shifting is possible.
Any help really appreciated, ...thanks Rob
Hi lads, just to introduce myself a bit, long term Green oval sufferer/enthusiast, currently have (2.5yrs) a 2001 P38 DHSE daily driver, pretty well standard, although the EAS can be testing at times;.... a 1980 RRC 2 door (20 months or so) which is now 300tdi and D1 mechanicals, a project that was supposed to be all there bar the paint but is on closer inspection no where near and finally (4+yrs) a 130 Td5 Defender truck cab which is off the roadat present but was a daily workhorse.
I only stumbled across this forum today while (re)searching M57 conversions (my M51 has at least one cracked ring and loses coolant slowly) and in particular how to get the cruise control working, read through Sloth's excellent efforts and decided to join to keep abreast of that and see what else is cooking.