I'm thinging of removing the diesel injectors and having them serviced. Anyone have any oidea what the likely cost of this is ?
Are they likely to be in need of this for a 1991 engine with 65k miles or should I leave well alone ?
- (#11542) Jason Bamford, 16 Jun 04 02:04
Hello Jason,
I had mine done last year whilst my head was being replaced and the cost was £100 for the set. The advise given by the specialist was only do this if you have a big smoke problem, it's not something to do frequantly.
- (#11542) dave Bright (Bournemouth), 16 Jun 04 02:57
Thanks for the Dave
I don't have a smoke problem, but I was concerned that the idle speed a slowed. I can increase it is but the cold start idle is also a bit low.
Is this perhaps a summer thing as I bought it in winter. Do you know if its normal to need adjust the idle speed that often ?
- (#11542) Jason Bamford, 16 Jun 04 03:43
I'm not sure, I haven't had to adjust mine in 18 months. Maybe yours needs a service?
Your not running Clives mwvo are you? thatr might mean it needs a tweak.
- (#11542) dave Bright (Bournemouth), 16 Jun 04 04:02
I find it's the other way around - MWVO gives a higher tickover and may need turning down.
- (#11542) Clive (Bristol), 16 Jun 04 05:41
Dave,
Yes I'm the man running on Clive MVWO, but I'm currently running on normal diesel for the last tank and half
- (#11542) Jason Bamford, 16 Jun 04 06:08
If you have tweaked it down to run wmvo then you use dino diesel, it would make sense that it would need tweaking up again, I guess.
- (#11542) dave Bright (Bournemouth), 16 Jun 04 07:19
Very true, but I ain't touched it gov! Knowing how complex good injector pump setup is I've not been keen to fiddle with it.
Without giving all to gorry details I've had a few "issues" with the MWVO and my fuel filter clogging. I ended up clearing out the tank and am running on Diesel just to get things happy again.
I noticed the idle drop when I was having problems on MWVO and was hoping to see it return to normal on diesel. As it didn't I was thinking that I might have some crud in the injectors, but the wagon runs fine with no smoke apart from the low idle.
I think I've talked myself into just tweakng the screw up a bit!
- (#11542) Jason Bamford, 16 Jun 04 07:51