Xantia diesel ecu/turbo problem

I had a similar problem with my ZX 1.9D once, when I got some diesel fuel that was contaminated with petrol. It went away when the contaminant had worked its way through, and the engine has been fine since - as far as I can tell.

This started half way through a full tank though. It came on really suddenly, Saturday it was fine, Sunday not.

Could it be something upsetting the turbo? I haven't got one of those.

According to my garage man it's the EGR valve. Apparently something electrical is holding the EGR and the fast idle on. The Egr shouldn't open until the revs get to presumably about 3k but because it's open all the time the mixture balance is wrong at low revs. He's disabled it for the moment and all seems fine until we can sort out a reason why.

In that case, have a look at the electrovalves (on a bracket just to the left of the LHM tank). One controls the fast-idle, the other the EGR.

Also check the vacuum pump is working and the pipework for leaks....

(My fast-idle electrovalve was failing open-circuit after it had warmed up for a couple of minutes or so, resulting in, well, a fast idle :o) )

Alan

Thanks I'll look at that in the daylight.

My advise is, to check the diesel hoses for leakage. In this case you will not find fuel spoiled out, instead air bubbles into the diesel hoses and breakes temporarily the fuel supply.

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