Greetings from Nairobi

[Barrbeast]

Welcome from the Scottish East!

Can't help you with the Terrano I'm afraid as I'm a Troll man but I know my 3.0TD Troll is definitely less sprightly than my previous (and 9 years older) 2.8TD Shogun :nenau ...

... she does weigh around 500kg more though and the fact I have no doubt she could pull a house down if need be more than makes up for it! :lol

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Hi and welcome..

What little of the cylinder head that you can see, looks the same as mine.

Not sure if this helps with your connector...

I will try and get some better pictures later.

 

[melissachels]

hi & welcome again from scotland tho the west this time :thumb2

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Not sure what it does, but it looks like the plug you have disconnected should connect to a pair of wires that go to number one injector.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

This is the best I could get...







Hope it helps.

 

[96terrano]

The tdi engine bays are packed compared to the TD

 

[xdonald]

Hi,

everybody, thanks for the welcomes!

Lazy-Ferret: Thanks for your pics. I tried to put your and mine together to compare. As it seems, the plug I don't know where to put belongs to that socket holder. In my case the countering socket is missing. Does anyone know where it should come from and what it does?

Silly questions, sorry, but there is only one Nissan workshop in Kenya and they have really no idea what they're doing.

Thanks,

Michael

By the way: had a great ride yesterday to one of the salt lakes in Kenya called Lake Magadi (here's a google maps link). Shot a picture for you Terrano connaisseurs. Raining season is over, parts of the lake have fallen dry, that's where the road is now.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

What a great picture...:bow

That is the socket I mentioned above, it has 2 wires that run from it, to the number 1 injector, but I have no idea what it is for, as from what I was told, the injectors are not electrically controlled, so all I can assume is it is a sensor of some sort.

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Just looked in the manual, and it is called a "Needle Lift Sensor" and is most likely your issue, as it controls how the pump delivers the fuel... Have a look on page 380 here..

http://bebrs.pie-dabas.net/Webs/Terrano/R20/ec.pdf

Basically it is a special injector, and I guess more expensive one than the other 3, as it can only be repaired by Bosch, rather then any diesel specialist like the other 3.

 

[xdonald]

Thanks, that helped. I searched a while to find a good picture of an injector with the needle lift sensor, found one, compared it with the loose plug and am pretty sure now, this could be the problem. If the Terrano's engine control needs to know about the status of the injector needle but doesn't, the injection may come at the wrong time and the engine doesn't develop its full power. Of course, if they really put another cylinderhead in this car, the appropriate injector may not fit in, but at least I have a solid theory now.