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drum:
For those that don't know, and weren't at driffield, we managed to Hydraulic a 200TDi engine on Saturday. We got it running first thing Sunday, but it was running rough. So I serviced it Sunday Evening, new filters and oil etc. cleaned the plumbing, put the intercooler in the dishwasher etc.

Now it runs as well as it ever did, apart from one thing. It smokes like a good un. White smoke, doesn't smell of unburnt diesel or anything. Bearing in mind we had a litre or so of muddy water go through the turbo, and we locked it up solid when we thought all the water was out, but it was hiding in the manifold, and got pulled in again. Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's bent and causing the smoke.

kevinf:
white smoke usually indicates water,i.e head gasket failure or cracked
head/block,might be worth removing exhaust and standing up some where to allow water drain out of silencers first before condeming engine
normal damage resulting from hydraulicing is bent con rods and in extreme cases brown head gasket,damaged head/block











good luck kevin

drum:
It has been running for a while, and we're going to run it for a week or so, to make sure stuff dries out, but I don't think it's water in the exhaust. Though I'd very happy to be proved wrong.

Any easy way of telling if it's Head, Block or Gasket??

paul_humphreys:
You could find someone to do a compression test.

Paul

drum:
That would tell me if it was one of the three, but would it tell me which??

I hve a compression tester for Petrol engine (screws into the spark plug hole), I guess that won't work for diesels.

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