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 Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 2:27 pm |
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Hi
Have just brought an accident damaged car, installed a battery and the engine just clicks, put the gear into 1st to see if the starter was jammed, but could not turn engine. The car is now over a pit where I managed to turn the car over using the crankshaft bolt until the engine locks, I think maybe when it gets to the compression stroke. Turning the car by key now turns the engine for about a second till its gets to the compression stroke. Any ideas what it could be, my only thought is that the car went into a ditch and swallowed some water, but not sure.
2003 1.4 Hdi
Thanks Dave
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:50 pm |
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Hi Dave,
Best advice I can give is remove the spark plugs and then try turning it over, if it has swallowed water then you should be able to see it in the cylinders.
Steve
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:56 pm |
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Sorry, remove the glow plugs and try.
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:25 am |
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Location: Devon
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Does it stop dead? or does it go tight?
Could be a valve issue. As seatock says, you could whip the glowers out and try.
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:23 am |
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Thanks for the replies, have just taken the glow plugs out...what a nice job..not. Spun the engine over by hand and oil has come shooting out of the glow plug holes ???
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:57 am |
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Joined: Aug 22, 2013
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Location: Morecambe
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Sounds like a head off job to me, could be the rings are shot or something else. Is it oil & not diesel? See if you can suction the oil out and then try cranking it over and see if any more oil appears.
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 2:03 pm |
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Location: Swindon
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Not water contaminated with either deisel or oil?
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