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trekker · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 8:07 Post subject:

The lumpy start may or may not be related to the sudden and high oil consumption which I think is the big concern. Have you continued to see this high oil consumption weekly, since your initial mail ?

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NickA · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 8:17 Post subject:

NickA · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 8:28 Post subject:

trekker · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 14:51 Post subject:

Good nick, how many km have you covered since filling up ? Six mm would be around 400ml of oil consumed.

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NickA · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 15:18 Post subject:

About 150 miles.

trekker · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 18:10 Post subject:

So around 500- 600 km to a litre of oil sure is a lot.

A compression test will indicate the state of the compression components, pistons, rings, valves, head gasket. I'd be looking to carry out that test, if only to eliminate the above, and allow focus elsewhere.

Then there is your turbo, burning oil can be from there, as can the poor top end power. Can you test for turbo boost pressure using a 0 - 2 bar gauge on one of the turbo small dia lines. You should have around 0.8 - 0.9 bar. I didn't see lots of oil in the inlet manifold, but oil won't hang up when it's hot.

NickA · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 19:11 Post subject:

venn105 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 20:13 Post subject:

I would have said turbo,valve stem or rocker breather to check .

NickA · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 23:11 Post subject:

The rocker breather is not blocked, i've already checked this. To check the turbo I would need to remove the pipe that goes from the air filter box ? I took the pipe off the top that goes to the intercooler but there was nothing more than a thin film of oil which i've been told is normal.

v8 rick · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 1:09 Post subject:

NickA · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 7:46 Post subject:

NickA · Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 14:55 Post subject:

Back on this again now as i'm on my days off.

Photo of inside the turbo, looks pretty dry to me and there is 1mm of play at most.

I'm still not liking undoing the rocker cover to check the gauze filters it seems too much for my limited knowledge and that would have to be a garage job.

Also to make things worse my starter motor has gone now so the truck is a non runner until new one arrives.

geodrome · Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 15:03 Post subject:

When I was having issues with mine I put the rocker breather pipe into a 500 ml bottle and taped the connection up where it went into the inlet pipe. I then ran it like that and watched how much oil went into the bottle. Got to the point it was filling up really quickly, all stopped and was clear after the head went!
So from my experience it is not just the cooling side that can get effected when the head cracks.

Mark3 · Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 15:07 Post subject:

Pretty dry except for the puddle of oil. this almost certainly points to excess oil leaving the engine via the breather system as there is no other way that could get there.

the fact it runs lumpy from cold start maybe a red herring, if it don't start to well maybe heater plugs or maybe even pump seal,the later would give you a lack of performance which you said it had topping out at 85, maybe???

NickA · Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 15:18 Post subject: