Rover 400 tdi help
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Guys am after some help.
A friend has driven out to luxembourg in a 98 vintage rover 400 tdi. I know brave.
Unsurprisingly it broke.
He lost lost turbo pressure for the last 60 miles. Opened the bonnet and the pipe from the intercooler has burst. Not split. The rubber looks in decent condition although there is evidence of some damage from rubbing.
We cannot get a new pipe so tool 2 from the box applied. Gaffer tape. It now has some boost.
The problem is the pipe from the intercooler was lined with thick black oil and there was oil sprayed liberally around the engine from the hole in the pipe.
I suspect this is BAD.
He is planning on driving 400 miles in it tomorrow.
Thoughts?
I can't do pics as no home pc at moment.
A friend has driven out to luxembourg in a 98 vintage rover 400 tdi. I know brave.
Unsurprisingly it broke.
He lost lost turbo pressure for the last 60 miles. Opened the bonnet and the pipe from the intercooler has burst. Not split. The rubber looks in decent condition although there is evidence of some damage from rubbing.
We cannot get a new pipe so tool 2 from the box applied. Gaffer tape. It now has some boost.
The problem is the pipe from the intercooler was lined with thick black oil and there was oil sprayed liberally around the engine from the hole in the pipe.
I suspect this is BAD.
He is planning on driving 400 miles in it tomorrow.
Thoughts?
I can't do pics as no home pc at moment.
It's nothing to worry about. Both my family and I have owned several L series diesel Rovers. They all have this to some degree. It's just the fumes getting vented back into the inlet tract.
As for the pipe spliting, again, very common. They always go on the pipe underside, on a longditudinal split. £50 gets you a new pipe.
And that, pretty much, is all that ever goes wrong with those engines. We had one in the family that went from 20k when we got it, to 500k when it went to it's new life as a razor blade via the scrappy. Engine and box still great, just the body was gone at the arches. The entire extended family had that car at some point.
Anyways, tell your mate he'll be fine.
As for the pipe spliting, again, very common. They always go on the pipe underside, on a longditudinal split. £50 gets you a new pipe.
And that, pretty much, is all that ever goes wrong with those engines. We had one in the family that went from 20k when we got it, to 500k when it went to it's new life as a razor blade via the scrappy. Engine and box still great, just the body was gone at the arches. The entire extended family had that car at some point.
Anyways, tell your mate he'll be fine.
DHE said:
Make sure there is plenty of tape on there, otherwise he could be back to square one very quickly. Had the same thing happen to my old Rover years ago, ended up putting a whole reel of duct tape on it, took the dealer three weeks to get the right part.
For me, it was £10's worth of B&Q breakfast bar leg, some jubilee clips and chop out and re-use the bends of the old hose.Only changed it 9 months later when I MOT'd it as I didn't want it looking too pie key.
Chainguy said:
For me, it was £10's worth of B&Q breakfast bar leg, some jubilee clips and chop out and re-use the bends of the old hose.
Only changed it 9 months later when I MOT'd it as I didn't want it looking too pie key.
Sounds like you may have missed out on the whistle provided by air escaping through the tape while accelerating, gave me much street cred with the Nova & Fiesta drivers.Only changed it 9 months later when I MOT'd it as I didn't want it looking too pie key.
as above due to the design of the EGR and the crapness of the intercooler pipe the cooler and pipework get filled with oil, mine did until stripped cleaned and EGR blanked, shed load of gaffer tape and drive it with plumes of unburnt diesel from the exhaust, these engines are nigh on bomb proof so don't worry
Had this on a friends Audi 80 TDi on the way to Le Mans a few years back. Gaffer tape by itself lasted no time at all due to the heat, but I did managed to make a fix that lasted until he sold it a year later (tight git wouldn't buy a new pipe).
Clean the pipe and seal the split with some gaffer tape. Cut the ends of a coke can, cut down the middle of the resulting cylinder and wrap it around the repair. Secure by tightly binding with some copper wire (or whatever you can find).
Clean the pipe and seal the split with some gaffer tape. Cut the ends of a coke can, cut down the middle of the resulting cylinder and wrap it around the repair. Secure by tightly binding with some copper wire (or whatever you can find).
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