A few weeks into ownership and the shitty old 2.0tdi has reared its third problem!
Had a egr fault come up, so set about stripping down the inlet manifold and egr valve for a good clean, its probably never been done in 78k!
After much chew on, i finally got the egr off and it was coked up to hell! Left it soak in some break cleaner while a removed the inlet manifold to give that a good clean too....
Eventually got it off to find the swirl flap bar loose, and the very end swirl cracked! Great!
Now ive delt with swirl valves before, bmw, vauxhall etc... and i know how much of a pain in the arse they can be. But ive never seen anything as cheap and nasty as the setup on the 2.0tdi bnm engine, designed to fail really.
So basically whats happened is the swirl rod has worn through the plastic bushes that it sits in inside the manifold. Everyone of these has a considerable amount of play, but the very end one (closest to passenger side) has completely cracked and is just rattling about! If this had parted company with the rod id potentially be looking at engine failure!.
Sooo...by this time its 4 o'clock and i need the car to get back to work tomorrow, a 140mile trip. Decided to clean it up as best i could, remove the knackered swirl flap, and inspect the others, all of which were worn, but structurally sound.
So now it looks like ill be trying to source a second hand bkd alloy manifold to replace this plastic shite with!
I struggled to find a how to guide on this, so when i come to replace the manifold ill take a few pics and post a guide up.
But id suggest anyone who hasnt inspected them, to do them asap. After all mine had only 78k on.
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Had a egr fault come up, so set about stripping down the inlet manifold and egr valve for a good clean, its probably never been done in 78k!
After much chew on, i finally got the egr off and it was coked up to hell! Left it soak in some break cleaner while a removed the inlet manifold to give that a good clean too....
Eventually got it off to find the swirl flap bar loose, and the very end swirl cracked! Great!
Now ive delt with swirl valves before, bmw, vauxhall etc... and i know how much of a pain in the arse they can be. But ive never seen anything as cheap and nasty as the setup on the 2.0tdi bnm engine, designed to fail really.
So basically whats happened is the swirl rod has worn through the plastic bushes that it sits in inside the manifold. Everyone of these has a considerable amount of play, but the very end one (closest to passenger side) has completely cracked and is just rattling about! If this had parted company with the rod id potentially be looking at engine failure!.
Sooo...by this time its 4 o'clock and i need the car to get back to work tomorrow, a 140mile trip. Decided to clean it up as best i could, remove the knackered swirl flap, and inspect the others, all of which were worn, but structurally sound.
So now it looks like ill be trying to source a second hand bkd alloy manifold to replace this plastic shite with!
I struggled to find a how to guide on this, so when i come to replace the manifold ill take a few pics and post a guide up.
But id suggest anyone who hasnt inspected them, to do them asap. After all mine had only 78k on.
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