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Nope, it's because of emissions and flow instead of pressure through an arduous oil circuit. Sure don't get thick ol mineral full of polymeric thickeners; get a group 3 or higher basestock synthetic. Loads of modern mutli gas/diesel oils lack the detergency required for a CI engine; just like my FSH toyota has had under dealership advice. :001_rolleyes:

He's 50 years dead.

Good post

Who's that then? I'm not a DC supporter.

Tell me about it; had a Saab 3.0 Tid with water cooled egr; what a complicated system. Overblown - good way of putting it; higher and higher bmep's with narrower oil galleries needing thinner oils. And people wonder why I like old cars!

I don't like Land Rovers Jon that's all, no apology required mate. I admit they have distinct advantages, but I'd rather have a 79LC to fulfill and exceed those needs if I had them.

It appeared to run fine but I heard a particular "knock" that made me do a bit of research; soon found that the noise under the oil cap said it all - seals gone and explained poor oil pressure rise at startup.

You won't get many saying "here here"; Christian bashing is flavour of the season after all.

BBC1 now - what a flippin disgrace! Well and truly hand picked audience :thumbdown:

Thanks but no thanks Jon.

Not preventative - look at the injector! Actually no symptoms to the layman but mild knock made me look deeper; remove oil filler cap when idling - you can hear the hiss-hiss-hiss if the seal has gone - nearly always #1 injector (the hottest end) which is adj to the filler cap and smell exhaust in the rocker cover; only smell from there should be crankcase oil fume, not diesel exhaust! Had those symptoms so parked her up and ordered the seals (£16.99 from Toyota). Injectors are probably a bit worn too but I'm not going down that route as it aint cheap and you have to match to the ecu. I shall put some RL85plus through the tank and reduce O/C interval accordingly. Oh and another thing; do yourself and your diesel (any diesel!) a favour; drop the recommended 5W30 oil and put in 5W40 or even 50; reduces blow-by considerably.

Blanking off egr's is now very common practice but not without its pitfalls - can cause turbo problems on some engines as like here: fast forward to 2 mins in particular: [ame] [/ame]

Spent a few hours today in the top end of my D4d engine. Injector seals are a known issue on earlier models so if yours is watch out for this! Initial tell-tale is slow oil pressure rise caused by solids in the pickup screen in the sump; said solids and sludge are from combustion gases leaking directly past the injector seals in the head into the rocker cover where the cams and tappets are - not good; fouls the oil quickly with resultant issue at the bottom. I pullled one injector at a time and had a bit of fun getting the old copper seals out; worked backwards from #4 - all were clean enough, but #1 oh my - see picture - horrendous! Gases had also cooked the o-ring so it was a real mess in there - look at the state of the whole cam box as a result - grim. Copper seal in #1 was very eroded and carbonised; worse still it's as eccentric as it looks in the picture; the hole is well off centre; whether it's eroded that way or was a faulty part from new, who knows but shocking either way. Supposedly sensitive and fragile injectors nonetheless had a wipe down and tip clean; #1 I was a bit more savage with! Clean the injector wells out good (carb cleaner and compressed air), replace with upgraded silver seals and reassemble. Sump off, inspect pump pickup screen, flush and O&F change tommorow...

25 C yesterday; in April! Nice but a bit out of kilter d'ya reckon?

But they like AFP like Lee Rigby extra good.

As tight to the kerb as possible!

This could be a bit of a marathon so I'll add a "thought for the day" and then summarise at the end. 1) Rudolf Diesel was not concerned with sparkless ignition, but pure adiabatic compression as a thermodynamic principle. Akroyd Stuart was the man behind thermal fuel ignition and the oil engine. Rudolf intended his engine to run on peanut oil as he hoped his invention would help smaller business' compete. So it was biodiesel in the first place. Here endeth the first lesson; thanks be to God.

I think the "system" would agree with you; the press, the media, government, popular opinion and so on. I totally disagree though.

It'll have to wait just now, off to zzzzzz

Groan lol how long have you got?! I was in CI research from '92 til 2008.

Best pro hedgecutter, period.

Here we go again. I spent 13 years in the diesel combustion and emission control industry after a PhD in the same subject, member of IIE, IDGTE blah blah blah. Here's my verdict: ignore everything, keep using diesel.

Not just eastern europeans either; considerably outnumbered by... Yes please, hurry up even though it's too late... What is the most common name for baby boys born in the UK ??!!

Was that multi-spiral Eddie? Thanks.

A third of the price of hydro which was a tenth of Pirtek?! Last time I had a metre from Pirtek it was £100/metre, paid £10/m yesterday for hydroscand...