Beach

If its a 150 they have some serious cam wear issues two people i work with have both had to have new cams and followers. Once the case hardening has worn through they wear like butter!! Not saying this most likly the problem just know its an issue!!

My old pd130 golf was a brill everyday car

Cossie Sean

when cams go they tend to put swarf everywhere and destroy the buckets too.

head off, and change the oil pump too got good measure, make sure everything is super clean!!

with regards non starting......
pull 1 injector plug off at a time, and try to start it, if 1 injector goes down it wont let it start, this will identify the dead injector and it will start on 3 pots

xr2wishy

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just done an oil change, so not likely to be camshaft wear to blame, no metal in the waste oil at all, just black.
i'll try injector thing, vag com should be here tomorrow if all goes well though.

xr2wishy

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split pipe s possible i can hear the turbo a bit to easily, but then again i've been out of turbo driven cars for a couple of months, so maybe it's unfamiliar.
egr has been off with the turbo and cleaned out, was pretty sooty, but not the worst i've seen.

Cosworth Lad

Hi mate iv also got a bora pd 130 mine did the same thing after diagnostics turned out to be a injecter loom fine after that though lol.

Fullflush

The pipe that split on mine was an elbow off the cooler. Started really small.

Put a new pump in last night. Took some cranking to get going again though (longer than it took to fit the pump!)

xr2wishy

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Still no further on this, anyone local with vag-com who fancies helping an old man out?
Better if they also have bmw diagnostic tools too

xr2wishy

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boost pipes coming off on saturday morning, i might just get a front mount too and keep the temps down for more power, i still have some stainless pipes from my last engine build on the xr2.

xr2wishy

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Leaking intercooler from one if the end tanks, bit pissed off, but got a second hand one for Ł25.
All fitted and running much better.
No limp home yet, but only had a ten minute run.

cossiejay

rubbish mine is a copy and does everything a genuine one will

Cosnada

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I thought the issue was with the quality of the lead and not the software? If yours is ok then where ya get it?

xr2wishy

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either/or, i didn't end up with VAG-COM anyhow, just got very curious about the amount of turbo/air noise when in boost, so looked at boost pipes which seemed ok, then thought i;d clean the crap off the intercooler from the outside and thought i'd run some soap through the core to clear any oil out. That was the moment where the hose pipe couldn't get it full as the end tank had come away from the core and leaked out.
it is up on power, down on noise and seems to not be entering limp home mode which makes sense as the MAF is actually reading the air that is entering the engine, not like the loss under load and the extra air drawn in un-metered on cruise.

if i'd have driven it more i'd have noticed the increase of noise of air from turbo as it got worse, women, never notice things like that.

cheers all for your help
sean

Mr.T

haha women. My ex didnt even notice the ticking of the engine. Turns out it was short on oil

xr2wishy

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My misses had a 1.3 hcs escort mk5, same problem, still drove 100miles like that before she mentioned it though, pump was properly fucked by then.

Fullflush

Hope it is all sorted now

xr2wishy

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i hope so too, wnet out for the weekly shop, virtually no smoke out the exhaust even upto 5000rpm (bugger all power there like), no cutting out, pulls so much better.
there you go, seems to be back to how it was when i bought it, if not better