Buggered Diesel LR - Help!

Sounds like it has far too much oil in, and it is running away burning the oil.

Are you sure the engine has the correct dipstick?

Sounds as if it has been passing sufficient oil past the rings to run, due to excessive oil level or excessively worn rings. Not an unheard of happening. JD

Its running on its own engine oil. Drain the sump. Refill with correct amount of oil. Completely bleed the fuel system to injector level. Restart.

If he doesn't know how to bleed the injectors (as overfilling with engine oil suggests) the take it to SWK. Where abouts is the vehicle?

In message , Alex writes

Sounds like a leaking oil seal on the turbo, The l/r 200's are prone to it as is the 300 but not as common. Never heard of it on a Mazda but you never know though?

On or around Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:40:52 GMT, Graham Jones enlightened us thusly:

any or all of the suggestions so far made.

But that bit on the dipstick that says "do not overfill" is not there for nothing.

A gallon of oil would be about enough to fill the sump from empty. Mostly low-high on the stick is about a litre, on modern engines, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less. If it was low on the stick and he put a gallon in, it's almost certainly way too full, or was. Now it's probably simply buggered, depending on how quickly he managed to get it stopped. sometimes those runaway situations lead to it revving fast enough to self-destruct.