Bigant Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Hi All Got home this evening to find out the wife had to be recovered this afternoon after the 300tdi engine in our Discovery sprung several leaks spraying diesel all over the engine bay and causing a major loss of power. I have had a look with the engine running and we have a small fountain of diesel shooting out from 2 of the four injectors? What causes this and how easy is it to fix? Cheers Bigant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozsug Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Where abouts from the injectors? From the main injection pipe, tighten nut? or is the pipe fractured? Leak of pipe fittings? copper washers or leak of pipes come loose or split? Where the injectors go into the head, clamp bolts loose, injector washer missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigant Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 Hi, thanks for the advice I am assuming that the AA man will have tried to tighten the nuts, so I think I may have a copper washer problem. Am I safe to just undo the nuts and replace the washers? Will I need to "bleed" the system? Cheers Bigant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozsug Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Yes just replace to youre hearts content , spin it over a few times and it will self bleed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigant Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 I managed to get hold of some replacement copper washer for te injectors and they are now fitted, I now need to change the copper washers either side of the banjo unions on the fuel return line. Thanks for the help and advice Bigant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigant Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 Dear all I fitted the new union copper of rings to the fuel return system this evening and this seems to have done the trick! Here's hoping that this is one little problem solved without incurring too much expense, fingers crossed. Thanks again for the advice Bigant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozsug Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Good job, even better when it only the cost of a couple of washers and a bit of time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyron Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 glad your sorted, nice cheap fix , can't be bad ron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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