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Lobo Newbie
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 6 Location: Cheshire/Staffordshire border
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 21:47 Post subject: Diesel in engine oil. |
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Hi Newbie just joined, hello all. I have a 1998 Trooper with the 3l 4JX1 engine, only done a genuine 86k miles. Problems started with white,ish smoke when accelerating, plus a slight over-run when turning the engine off.
At this point I didn't see any rise of oil on the dipstick.
Decided to replace ORPS (new Isuzu from Milners) and injector oil seals (also from Milners). When I took out the injectors, all were nice and clean with minimal carbon traces on the tips below the copper seal.
Rightly or wrongly I decided that the sleeve seals were fine so didn't attempt to remove any of the injector sleeves. Fitted new o rings to the injectors, placed the copper seals into the sleeves ensuring the flat surface was facing upward (after cleaning the sleeve bases lightly with a plastic blade) and refitted the injectors, oil rail with new ORPS fitted, H clamps, injector clamps etc. and torqued everything down. Rebuilt everything back up, forgot to put some oil in the hi pressure oil pipe prior to fitting to oil rail. Re-used the original water/anti freeze as there was no contamination problem. Put new engine oil (fully synthetic 5w 30w) in. Charged up both batteries as I knew it would take a while to pressurise the oil rail. After quite a few turns the cranking noise seemed to change as if the engine was labouring. 2 battery charges later it still wouldn,t start so I decided to strip it again. As I drained the engine oil it became apparent that it was contaminated with diesel. When I got to number 3 injector, the lower part of the tip was covered in a black wet substance which I have taken to be a mix of oil and diesel. Now I don,t know if the copper seal had leaked or the internal injector seal, or something else.
I have no Tech 2 to take any measurements but assume that any codes would be lost when disconnecting both batteries. It may be a red herring, but I noticed that when cranking the engine over, the red anti theft light on the dash was flashing.
Any help/tips would be most appreciated. In desperation I have advertised it on gumtree as spares or repairs but just wondered if I have been too hasty. |
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eithan h Moderator
Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 8195 Location: oxfordish
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 14:51 Post subject: |
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so first off the milners injector seal kit is no good as the copper washers are wrong and do leak diesel in to the cylinders which causes them to smoke, did you follow the tightening down procedure in the manual? or did you just tighten the rail down first then the injectors to the rail as this can pinch the seals to one side and then they leak, also injectors themselves are a point of mixing oil and diesel and the most common as well but it's also possible it could have a cracked head which will also leak fuel in to the oil.
first off send the injectors to us and we can pressurise them to test for leaks, if there are no leaks we can then send them back if they are ok with a genuine set of seals then if you fit them again as per the manual and keep an eye on the oil level if it rises then it's the head. also did you clean the bottom of the sleeves before fitting new copper washers? |
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Lobo Newbie
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 6 Location: Cheshire/Staffordshire border
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 15:21 Post subject: |
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Thanks for replying Eithan. P.M. sent |
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Lobo Newbie
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 6 Location: Cheshire/Staffordshire border
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 14:56 Post subject: |
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Update on my Trooper. The problem was the copper seal (non original) on No 3 cylinder injector had leaked diesel direct into the cylinder. Now has new Isuzu seals on all injectors. Eventually got it started after the oil rail had filled up and pressurised. The only problem now is, it takes a while to start and for the oil light to go out on the dash. I have assumed it's because the new ORPS that I fitted needs calibrating to the ECU ? Would my assumption be correct ? |
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eithan h Moderator
Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 8195 Location: oxfordish
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 16:51 Post subject: |
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If you haven’t driven it yet then there is still air in the oil gallery and it will take a bit to start it needs a couple of miles on it to push it out then it should start as normal |
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Lobo Newbie
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 6 Location: Cheshire/Staffordshire border
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 17:00 Post subject: |
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Thank you for a speedy reply Eithan. |
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