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OK A few onths later the Eff(ing) truck is fixed. Bil was some 3.5 grand and included a new IDM (Injector Drive Module) as well as more work on the wiring harness (in truth it needs a new one is the advice from the repairer). Obviusly that wpuld have to come from the USA and probably cost a few...

Stopped using it Delvac 1 in both the 80 series Tdiesel landcruiser 1HD-T engine AND the ford Powerstroke 7.3 after BOTH used oil analysis came back with elevated sulphation, nitration and oxidation levels after only 5000 km's (3000 miles). Apart from our probably higher ambient temps, the...

Quote: Japanese indirect injected diesels typically spec a minimum of 3000ppm calcium. VERY good advice for the cruiser engine - they don't do as well in warm climes with the newer oils with low calcium levels - the replacement Magnesium decays at about the normal operating temps of the engine...

And the saga drags on. The auto electrician couldn't find the problem despite pulling the intercooler pipes and looking at the wiring loom. Cost me $250 for him to look at it and find nothing - ran fine for his test drive. Collected it and paid his $250, drove 50 meters out his gate and it...

Update, For anyone interested - i chance4d a drive 40 KM's to nearby town after pushing the orange wire into the middle of the bundle coming thru the firewall grommet. I made it - so dropped the vehicle at an auto electricians place and showing him the problems, left it with him to have a play...

Would you believe? Would you believe - the truck was good for all of 100 kilometers (60 miles) before it reverted to the same issue again! Yes I have a short somewhere taking out one bank of 4 cylinders again! Sadly I wasn't able to sell the truck within the 60 miles it was running OK! So in...

A visiting CAT diesel technician poked his head under the hood with his tools etc and diagnosed and fixed a shorted wiring harness fault in the vally of the engine (one of the harness wires rubbed thru on the valve cover, a VERY common problem on these Fords). Now sure what he did - but the...

The simple facts are that for all the improvements in metallurgy oils and electronics - the [censored] engines are less reliable than their old purely mechanical counterparts!. If they were MORE reliable - we wouldn't be seeing Ford & Navistar in court suing and counter-suing each other. I am...

Not kidding at all. I always had diesls for the last 15 odd years because I got tired of chasing mystery electrical problems on gas engines, and have fallen in love with the reliability of diesel... That is until this vehicle...where as you correctly point out - some fool has decided to mix...

Still not fixed yet but maybe we are getting close. I took the laptop to town and buzz tested the injectors again, pulled the codes etc. It seems after a lot of ohms testing that all the injectors themselves are fine, yet 4 in one bank won't fire at all. The common areas of problem like under...

Dougs example needs to be viewed in context. I live on the opposite side of this pizza to Doug. (He's in the east - I'm on the west). Our land mass is the size of 50 states of the USA excluding Alaska and Hawaii. We have a population of 20 million. 18 million of them live on Dougs side The other...

Speaking to the diesel fitter this morning. They got the rocker covers off - expecting fully to find a loose connector on bank 2 since non of the injectors fire on that side when you perform a buzz test. From memory the code was P1816 or something IDM etc Powertrain and injector harness or...

Sorry for the delay. What a rigomorole! The software arrived and I loaded it up on the laptop, but apparently like many others who paid good $ I got a bad disc..and catastrophic failure messages transferring vehicle profiles file. I did an advanced install and left that file out - since it is...

When next I go to town, assuming the package with software has arrived - I will load it up and swing by the diesel fitters and we will see if we can pull some codes. I have no idea yet how to do that - does one connect the laptop via USB cable I presume to some connection under the steering...

I suspect that maybe it's not so much a bad sender as maybe a blockage/ restriction in the gallery / thermostat area of the engine near the sender. You see the temp gauge seems to accurately represent the real temps and they vary so widely so quickly at slow rpm's that I suspect more of a...