Sick transit

[miker]

Transit 2.2 08 plate died on me today.

lost power and when i stopped and dipped clutch it died and wouldnt start again.no warning lights on dash.

was making strange droning sound as it lost power

Anyone else had same problem ?

cheers

[Ian C]

Egr valve possibly. If it is just get a blanking plate jobs a good un.

[BobG]

Typical Transit faults include blocked fuel filter, EGR valve, fuel lift pump, split pipe, any of the fuel metering sensors/valves...

[GardenKit]

I had this once on my 03 tranny, lost power and loads of white smoke.

 

It was after driving in VERY heavy rain, no floods, just very wet air. The air filter had become sodden and disintegrated, with bits of soggy filter getting into the turbo.

 

Could be loads of other things of course, but very easy to check.

[oldwoodcutter]

The Mk7 has so much electrical (for a van) on it, that if nothing is staring you in the face, its often better to get it hooked up to a diagnostic display,either a good garages general one, or fords own ids computer to get the codes read.

[miker]

cheers for replies,its down the garage now but they cant look at it till tomorrow, ive got it dead and buried but hopefully its curable for not too many pennies

[Vespasian]

Funny this turned up today, I've spent most of my day faffing with the gear selecta on my transit..

Thing wouldn't go into third gear so I decided to fix it...

 

Got the tools out and set to work rejigging the selecta cables, half hour later I figured I'd made things worse..

Had to take out selecta box from gearbox.. what a fffing nightmare that was.. looked at the unit to see that a bolt had sheared off and fallen into gear box...

 

The only thing to do, go buy a flexy magnet stick thingy and attempt to fish out the bolt.

drive into town, five quid spent then drive home expecting I'd just wasted my money and time..

Got home poked magnet into gearbox thinking I was wasting my time pulled it out and low and behold there it was, sitting proud on the end of the flexy magnet poker stick thingy...

 

The Bolt.....well I never!!!!..

 

Tomorrow I'll be looking for a replacement selecta, scrap yard or mates who might have one...

New, they're close on four hundred quid.

I ain't paying that, its close to half the value of what the vans worth...

[swinny]

Funny this turned up today, I've spent most of my day faffing with the gear selecta on my transit..

Thing wouldn't go into third gear so I decided to fix it...

 

Got the tools out and set to work rejigging the selecta cables, half hour later I figured I'd made things worse..

Had to take out selecta box from gearbox.. what a fffing nightmare that was.. looked at the unit to see that a bolt had sheared off and fallen into gear box...

 

The only thing to do, go buy a flexy magnet stick thingy and attempt to fish out the bolt.

drive into town, five quid spent then drive home expecting I'd just wasted my money and time..

Got home poked magnet into gearbox thinking I was wasting my time pulled it out and low and behold there it was, sitting proud on the end of the flexy magnet poker stick thingy...

 

The Bolt.....well I never!!!!..

 

Tomorrow I'll be looking for a replacement selecta, scrap yard or mates who might have one...

New, they're close on four hundred quid.

I ain't paying that, its close to half the value of what the vans worth...

 

Is that a fwd transit? theyre quite well known for that! But if it is the fwd transit theyre fairly easy to do from recollection, undo selectors and theres 6 bolts holding it down onto top of the box, then pull the unit out.... sometimes the shaft going through the unit seems to rust and make selecting gear hard work and stiff

 

 

ohh and well done for getting the bolt out you jammy bugger:D

[miker]

those flexi magnet thingies are great mate,mine has recovered all sorts , glad you got the bolt out.

[Vespasian]

Swinny

 

I got the selecta box out, and found the bolt, its what I said in my piece..

 

Miker

 

 

Yes, I was very surprised to find that bolt first dip in if you know what I mean. LOL...

 

I was parked on a muddy patch and didn't fancy taking off the gearbox in a pile of mud... thank god for that...