I have just had a flood damaged td4 in.

I took the glow plugs out and wound it over with the injectors unplugged and i had liquid coming out of the heater plug holes on 1 and 4.

I dropped the oil to see if there was any water contamination and to my surprise i got a good 15 yes fifteen liters of liquid come out of the sump!

It was incredibly thin and im sure its more than 70% diesel.

How can this have got into the sump?

I refilled with fresh oil and it wont start, it turns over fine but no start.

Any ideas?

thanks
Colin

piston rings?

When you say flood damaged - how flood damaged?

Could it be the engine has been started whilst the air intake was under water thus it would have sucked a massive amount of water in, compressed it, blown it where ever it could squeeze it past blowing piston rings apart etc etc on its way, then any diesel pumped in would also wash down. Oil and water don't mix so should have been obvious in the sump but fuel would possibly mix in.

Have you tried a compression test before you set about stripping the beast down.

Hi Colin i have had the same sort of thing with the defender td5 and found the injector seals worn replaced them and problem sorted may be worth checking but be careful the injectors are a tight fit DON'T lever against the plastic rocker cover it will break and its not cheap!!!
cheers
Bill