well, we adjusted the linkage and we have gears again! so thats a bonus, but the biggest bonus is that ive finally found teh cause of the excess smoke and one hell of a diesel clatter..
the clatter had been there from the start and i had relized why the chap had sold the motor on now, as previously said, it smoked sooo much and really had a huge diesel knock,
we had swapped the top of the pump/cam plate.. changed injectors, done head gasket, stripped the motor down including piston ect checking all bearings and could find no reason, changed the pump timing from full advace to full retard and still made no difference,
the only thing i hadn't checked would be something you would check firstly on a petrol engine and that was the firing order,
obviously many of you know that diesel dont use ht leads,
The diesel pump acts the same as a dizzy in a way and has the injector hardline that come off and run to the injectors. well we had never disturbed these at the pump end as there were no need to when removing injectors.
so i went and found the firing order for the vw engine and then found which way the pump works, and bingo, somebody had put the hardlines on wrong, they should normally only go on one way, but with a little tweak you can put them on incorrectly, this is what had happened
no wonder it was smoking, teh pump was delievering teh diesel at the incorrect time for two of teh cylinders! christ knows how the motor was still running!
so now all is running well with good power, i had some more enthusiasm for it, i managed to sell my old
ibiza seats, and the chap that had them off me had the cloth versions of the same seats, so i had them for nothing!
i modified the subframes to fit the caddy, not the easiest of jobs but hey ho, they are in there and look good, il get pics tommorrow..