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I think I've cooked my engine
marky:
Sounds to me like you may have solved it! If there was a hole before that was causing the problem you might have fixed it (only from my limited recent experience)
SteveGoodz:
--- Quote from: ben_haynes on May 17, 2008, 18:01:34 ---do you give it regular oil + filter changes, and is the oil dirty black and grainy or clean?? do you use a cheaper oil or a more expensive oil?? im only asking as we use a cheaper oil at work and the diesels tend to become black and grainy and knock more, i used to used a cheaper one in my 200 and i used to have to change the oil every few thousand miles as i would loose performance and it would get noisy then i found Castrol Magnatex 15/40 diesel and it would last 12000 + miles before getting dirty and noisy
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Hi Ben,
Yes I do regular oil and filter changes ~ roughly every 8 weeks/6000 miles. I do tend to use cheaper oils and it does go black fairly quickly but all of the diesels I've ever owned have been like that. I thought it was a by-product of the combustion process. I also use engine flush at oil change time.
Funnily enough I bought some Magnatex 15/40 diesel oil this evening ready for an oil change tomorrow afternoon. I'll let you know what happens :)
SteveGoodz:
--- Quote from: marky on May 17, 2008, 19:09:43 ---Sounds to me like you may have solved it! If there was a hole before that was causing the problem you might have fixed it (only from my limited recent experience)
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I've got my finger crosses, Marky, but not counting my chickens yet :D
Gonna take the motor for a good run in the morning and see how it fairs. If it looks like the water is okay then it's oil change time tomorrow afternoon. I'm planning to re-seal the sump (got a small leak) while there's no oil in it and then fill up with Magnatec 15/40 diesel oil and a new filter to see what happens with the knock.
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