BigMick

Stinky Diesel

23 December 2016  |  BigMick

Affecting: 1.6Hdi

"I simply refuse to get into that old jalopy of yours. It fair brings on me asthma it does"

"It's not an old jalopy, it just smells a bit when you stop at lights"

"Well, it seems to me that the whole car is filling with horrid exhaust fumes and I shall stand for it not a moment longer. Get it sorted"

And so he did.

It turned out to be a leaking injector seal. Gases blow by the injector allowing accrid fumes to be sucked into the car. Easily remedied though by simply whipping out the offending diesel injector, giving it a bit of a dust off, wipe off the seating surface and chucking it all back together again with a new washer, spacer and seal. 

https://www.eurocarcare.net/injectors/ecc198185-diesel-fuel-injector-copper-fire-washer.html

https://www.eurocarcare.net/injectors/ecc198299-diesel-fuel-injector-protector-ring.html

https://www.eurocarcare.net/injectors/ecc1982a0-diesel-fuel-injector-seal.html

This lesson was brought to you courtesy of the British Institute of Gross Oversimplification