Pipe blew off turbo on 3 ltr td
Submitted: Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 17:47
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motherhen
Coming home with the caravan, when there was a TWANG, and we lost some power. A hose of some sort had come off (i'm not mechanical). I haven't heard of this happening. Lucky we weren't out in the never never.
Reply By: muzzimbidgie - Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 19:36
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 19:36
Motherhen. This happenned to me, yes out in the never never!! about 60 k's south of Roeburn. It was a simple case of removing the plastic cover over the engine, re-connecting the hose and tightening up the hose clamp.
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Reply By: KiwiAngler - Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 21:17
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 21:17
Do you have an intercooler?
Check those pipes as
well as you will get a similar power drop if you loose any of the intercooler hoses.
I speak from experience :-)))))
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Follow Up By: muzzgit (WA) - Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 22:48
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 at 22:48
Yes, while I was in there I checked and they were all loose.
Muzzimbidgie at work
Muzzgit at home
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Reply By: Member - Craig D (SA) - Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:19
Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:19
Happened to me too about two weeks ago coming back from a trip. As I had had this happen before I knew where to look and five minutes later I was back on the road. Didn't check the other hoses so better do that this weekend.
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Reply By: colski - Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:26
Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:26
Brother had the same thing happen to him on his GU 3L TD, however this was just after it had been in for it's "tighten everything up" service not long after taking delivery of it.... They were 250km out of
Perth at the time
Dealer said that the apprentice had done the work. Even so, I thought work would still be checked before going out.
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Follow Up By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:49
Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:49
That's all they seem to have working in those workshops!! (apprentices!).
The Wife's going back to work in a week and her company car (BA Falcon) has just been dropping the kids off etc while she's been on maternity leave so I thought I'd give it a bit of a once over yesterday. It's only done 33k and I've noticed it blowing a bit of blue smoke in the mornings when she takes off!! So I blew out the air cleaner, checked all the fluids (as it's already had one coolant leak fixed and it's leaking again!). I then checked the oil, it was SO OVER FULL I thought I had forgot to wipe the dipstick!! I wiped it again, put it back in, the whole dip stick has oil on it again???? I did it again! Nope, it was just THAT OVER FULL.
Serviced reguarly by the local ford dealer, thanks guys good work... I spose that's one way to sell new cars, just fill them to buggery so they blow all the seals before 100k... Like I said to her, probally the apprentice doing the work, has NFI what he's doing and probally doesn't give a bleep either.
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Follow Up By: Member - Banjo The First (SA) - Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 13:30
Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 at 13:30
Don't worry about the apprentice doing the work - worry about what the tradesman has told the apprentice "not to worry about" ... ! and .... the apprentice might be more careful than half the tradesmen anyway there anyway .....
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