Blast it! Just drove into flood and damaged engine???

[treequip]

Can you really see properly tho thru the plug / injector hole ?

 

as per fig 4:

 

WATER DAMAGE TO AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES:

 

You dont need to "see" anything. with the injector and the washer out you ought to be able to get a thin rod down to the piston crown, that way you can measure all the TDC heights.

[mendiplogs]

Hit 12" water at 30 mph! Quiet road - didn't see it at all then thump, bow wave, all warning lights on etc etc. Engine never stalled (diesel) but lost alternator, steering etc. Everything came came back to life quickly; engine is sweet as before when revving but dull rhythmic thumping at tickover... bent con-rod ??? Lots of smoke / steam from back end of car. Manually revved engine via lever on fuel pump - intermittent mis-firing...

 

HI TCD my mate done the same as that 2 weeks ago night mere i hope you get it sorted out mate mate soon jon

[Stereo]

Hang on, hang on dartmoor. My bruv had a pug 405 with the 1.9 and he had this after a puddle. It's something to do with the engine going into protection mode. He had low revs and lots of smoke but it was not damage, it was a setting that the motor was put into due to water ingress. Before you start taking the head off, ask a real XUD expert about this as it may be just an electronics thing. His car was fine once dried out.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

There aren't any electronics on it! Must have been a late 405 then cos the 406 2.1 had the leccy epic pump and the 1.9 only had a injector tdc sensor and fast idle microswitch??? Pre 95 nowt...

[Stereo]

Hmm maybe it was the 406 that he has now. The 405 was a 92 .

[C.J]

Head gasket damage is another possibility.

[steve@black]

:thumbup:Perhaps being French it has gone on strike due to adverse working conditions

[Chris Sheppard]

If it was me, I'd bung a fresh filter in, have a look at the colour of the oil just to be sure and see how it goes.

 

As the Xantia is pre electronics, it's probably cheaper/easier to go grab a complete engine from a breaker than do open heart surgery on yours.

[Rich2484]

:thumbup:Perhaps being French it has gone on strike due to adverse working conditions

 

:lol::lol: must have been made by an ex fisherman.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

If it was me, I'd bung a fresh filter in, have a look at the colour of the oil just to be sure and see how it goes.

 

As the Xantia is pre electronics, it's probably cheaper/easier to go grab a complete engine from a breaker than do open heart surgery on yours.

 

Open heart surgery is far preferable in this case; the motor is bosch pumped, only 85k miles, smoothest xud I've had (out of atleast 10!) and finding a comparable xud in condition I'm happy with would be nigh on impossible; done the ebay / scrappy / so-called refurb engine thing before - all been crap. Proper job? - do it yourself; not a major ball ache on an xud. The saab v6 3.0 tid on the other hand - oh my word! Heller of a job.