an Anonymous Greaser -
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 02:16
So I got to the bottom of this issue and fixed it. It was the filters getting plugged. I had issues with large amounts of animal fats in the oil. Watch out for this and avoid it if you can. Let the oil you use settle good and long and only take off the top.
I also had an interesting issue that took me over a year to figure out. The injection pump timing was 70 degrees out and when set at the normal 26 degrees, the car would not idle and it ran like crap. I put the timing back and the car ran fine, but slow as a snail...really slow. This is how the car was since I got it. It would get worse when you drove the car on the highway for long periods of time then tried to accelerate from a stop light after getting off the highway. Finally I found that the check valve in the lift pump was missing and not allowing the fuel system to pressurize. I had no fuel pressure. The injection pump was sucking the fuel through the filter and it caused the car to run like trash. Some idiotic mechanic took and though that setting the injection pump timing 70 retarded would make sense. Well it evened the idle out and the car ran...surprisingly, but it was slow as hell.
Power loss in 300D
So I got to the bottom of this issue and fixed it. It was the filters getting plugged. I had issues with large amounts of animal fats in the oil. Watch out for this and avoid it if you can. Let the oil you use settle good and long and only take off the top.
I also had an interesting issue that took me over a year to figure out. The injection pump timing was 70 degrees out and when set at the normal 26 degrees, the car would not idle and it ran like crap. I put the timing back and the car ran fine, but slow as a snail...really slow. This is how the car was since I got it. It would get worse when you drove the car on the highway for long periods of time then tried to accelerate from a stop light after getting off the highway. Finally I found that the check valve in the lift pump was missing and not allowing the fuel system to pressurize. I had no fuel pressure. The injection pump was sucking the fuel through the filter and it caused the car to run like trash. Some idiotic mechanic took and though that setting the injection pump timing 70 retarded would make sense. Well it evened the idle out and the car ran...surprisingly, but it was slow as hell.
I hope NO one else comes across such inanity.