Hi, whilst on the hunt for a definite cause for my 200tdi rangerover's awfull smoking startup problem, I had just done the valve clearances and thought I'd start it and listen again...started quickly and I didn't give it any throttle so it was realy rough...cracked each injector in turn to see if one made any difference (air etc), none did it was still rough...I felt carefully around the back of the head to see if I could feel a blown gasket but nope...whilst I had my hand near the manifold I realised that no. 4 branch of the manifold was not warm like the rest! Never read about this check in any manual...I wonder if this points to an injector problem? After some minutes and some throttle things get smoother but still smokey. As it's our only working motor I cant take it out of service for long hence the laborious rate of progress...I'm sure we'll get there though Steve;)
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19 years ago