yes, well done mike, and thanks everyone for the help over the last four painful months, hopefully it's a rebore, new rings, skim and put back together job now - hopefully...
well, four months on and we have finally got the head off and got to the bottom of it - did anyone go for piston ring?
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got there in the end!
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finally got the valve cover of ... not so simple as required either dropping the engine or drilling some holes in the bulkhead to get the injectors out ... went for drilling the holes in the end.
anyway here's a video of it cranking with the valve cover off, notice it cuts near the end after we...
UPDATE: the jeep has been off the road for 2 months now as getting parts at a resonable price here is not easy. But have eventually got some new injectors (at suggestion of local diesel engine specialist) imported, they have been put in, but the knocking noise is stil there - dissapointed -...
Thanks for your helpful suggestions, really appreciated and has kept me really well informed.
I am still waiting for a full diagnosis. But I had a guy come round this morning and have a quick look, its common rail and he loosened off the fuel intake on the middle cylindar and reckoned it wasn't...
Hi All,
Am trying to work out the source of the heavy knocking noise on this Jeep Diesel engine (see video link below). The oil cooler failed and it did overheat as there was contamination of the coolant with oil. Oil cooler now replaced and coolant flushed. Now coolant is good with no...
yes, Thanks for all your help kopron, the engine is now running sweet with all injectors at 170 bar, even if it is a little noisier as you mentioned, but not too much.
Kopron, Below is what the Manufacturer's manul says about the fuel pump, so i guess it does have the automatic regulation of timing.
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In the elctronically controlled injection pump, the pump plunger works the same as the pump plunger
in the...
In the end I got all my new injectors upped to 170 bar, and got them fitted by Jeep today (Jeep had to fit them because in my 1999 model you have to re-programme the MSA computer to expect a new injector, apparently.)
All the injectors that where took out where 150 bar, so why the new number one...
Hi,
I have an Italian WM 2.5 ltr diesel engine in my 1999 Jeep Cherokee.
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I want to up the injector pressure by 20 bar for better atomization of the fuel, but the new injectors I have bought have different pressure.
The #1 injector (which has a needle motion sensor in it...
