2000 jetta TDi

[mr.mindless]

It may have crossed that divide... :-x


Tapatalking in traffic

[M4wdFab]

i start bitching about it and yup- comes home on a flat bed.


at least it took me to 30 for my first tow truck ride at 186$ to get it home 

[M4wdFab]

gona try to push this thing in tonight and look at it 

bah

[rejeep]

what happened exactly? 

[M4wdFab]

blue smoke, loss power, kinda came back for a sec, more blue smoke, coasted to side of road.


suspect skip timing belt tooth, or fuel deliver issue.  appears to have lots of air in clear supply line to inj pump

[M4wdFab]

Mike does it have to be running or just cranking to get timing through VAG com?

[mr.mindless]

has to be running to graph timing, I believe.

I believe I have all needed tools to set static timing on a ALH. Not a small job but not horrible. pull full timing belt cover, rotate engine to TDC (there's a nearly invisible mark on the flywheel and a sight window), pin injection pump, check cam position.

[Ryan]

My guess is bad turbo.....

Is timing jumping teeth a thing? I have never had anything just randomly jump timing. I have had belts break, or gears strip, but never just random tooth jump and everything else is fine. I am guessing its a chain?

[KingtheZJ]

check the tee on the top of the fuel filter. these are notorious an issue and let air in. its on the return.

[mr.mindless]

timing is a toothed belt, and old belts can and do skip teeth. This is supposedly not an old belt so if the job was done right that should not be the problem. If the tensioner was reused and locked up or failed, more likely.

bad turbo the car would still run. also, smoke should be black.

blue smoke does say oil to me.

white smoke should be fuel starvation, but all other symptoms are pointing me to a fuel supply issue.

[mr.mindless]

That tee was already broken once, and glued somehow? Bad o-rings on there can cause big issues as well.

here're two fixes:
http://www.idparts.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1798
replace the filter base and run a spin-on filter, with return bypassing. not finding great links... I don't recall where I bought mine but I think I did reuse the troublesome tee http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/325340-2-micron-fuel-filter-cat.html
there also used to be a couple places that made a bypass that plugged the hole and sealed things up while reusing stock fuel lines. didn't find quickly, and have some work to do now instead of searching

[Nick]

Has the fuel filter been changed recently? 

[M4wdFab]

less than 1000 miles ago she got a new fuel filter. 


i didnt fill the fuel filter when i changed it, but then talking to mike 2 days later i took it apart to fill and the little plastic POS had dried out and snapped with out fuel in it


in an attempt to get it mobile we crazy glued it and lubed it, and its run for 1000miles no issue no bubbles. 

the first place i was going to start was bipass the supply and returns in a fresh jug and see if it runs.  then go to timing stuff

[KingtheZJ]

sounds like a 12v

[M4wdFab]

it was single digits Saturday morning 8am when i left.  probably 15 degrees when it died on the way back. 

car had sat for basically 3 weeks with half tank of fuel.  then i topped it off Friday night before heading to buffalo.  made it 90 miles before dead.