THE MRS 96 3.1td WIZard

[stardog]

Thanks for the info nb22 I thought $40 for head gasket was a bit cheap what about the head bolts any good.

[nb422]

Havent heard of any issues with them, have a set sitting there waiting for my engine to go together so cant say from personal experience yet sorry

[MUVIT]

dont think the new head has been taken off since rebuild steve, the head on the old motor was taken off to look at the injector washer/ heat shiel arangement
as the new head didnt have the injector heatshields from memory.

[stardog]

Ben my mistake it was the old engine you took the head off so that eliminates that as a problem.
I was under the hood this morning looking at the fuel pump with a work light I think it might be a bit to retarded in the timing if I can get at the 3 nuts with out to much drama im going to advance it a little bit there is a bit of a nock when its running.
If that's the problem and it fixes it I will be wrapped freezing out side i will wait for it to warm up a bit in the sun before I do anything.

[MUVIT]

the injectors were rebuilt by MTQ (darwin), following your phone call earlier this week about the position the injector was installed (180 out?)...
I wonder if it has damaged it (tip, heatshield).
If the new (chinese) turbo was rooted, would that it smoke at idle? or just on boost?

[stardog]

I don't know about the injectors could of been the turbo is good I didn't do the 2 bolts on the oil return pipe up tight enough DOH' I moved the pump outwards a bit run like a bucket of bolts.
Turned the pump in ran a bit better and bit of white smoke turned it in a fraction more and adjusted the fuel delivery screw a few times adjusted the idle screw no more smoke and is idling a lot better and no smoke when I rev her out.
Have to get a boost gauge on it now see what's it boosting hopefully this might of fixed it fingers crossed.

[stardog]

I took a couple of photos see if I can up load the tail pipe is with the engine idling Ben.
Tried to do a video with the camera didn't work might have to use my phone.

[geeves]

I wouldnt be complaining about that amount of smoke

[stardog]

No complaints at all geeves and it starts first turn of the key now the other day turn the key had to give the pedal a few pumps after glow plug on 3 times ran rough as guts for a few minutes tons of smoke as well even idling got it at 750 rpm now at idle.

[MUVIT]

Glad you could save it steve.
in 2014 the mrs & I dropped alot of $$$$ & time into it, good to see it only cost ya some sweat/skin & beers