Heeeeeellllllppppp!

[solarman216]

Anyone here remember Comma TS3 engine, nicked from the Germans after the war I am told, but a fantastic piece of engineering, 6 pistons 3 cylinders, one crankshaft, can you get your head round that? whatever it had 4 major problems, (1) the super charger shaft was only 3/8 inch thick and was long so had a support bearing midway, as such it failed often, they would run but no power, (2) noise they had massif exhaust boxes but you could still hear them coming half a mile away, but power you could not beat them (3) they had deep oil bath air cleaners, and it was far easy to overfill them, these engines had so much power you could not be sure the clutch would stall them, but I think that overall the amount of over fill would not have run them for long enough to destruct, but (4) now this is a very different story, being a two stroke engine (yes these horizontally opposed engines fired on every compression forcing two pistons apart) they (with the in line pumps) would run in reverse and as the governor was now inoperative it would run to destruction unless you could stall it, Rick

 

[melissachels]

Good spot and good theory, I would also like to know the answer?

mine was coming out the exhaust & I'm pretty sure it was black reck but honestly can't mind exactcolor of smoke :thumb2

 

[Bedhead1157]

Anyone here remember Comma TS3 engine, nicked from the Germans after the war I am told, but a fantastic piece of engineering, 6 pistons 3 cylinders, one crankshaft, can you get your head round that? whatever it had 4 major problems, (1) the super charger shaft was only 3/8 inch thick and was long so had a support bearing midway, as such it failed often, they would run but no power, (2) noise they had massif exhaust boxes but you could still hear them coming half a mile away, but power you could not beat them (3) they had deep oil bath air cleaners, and it was far easy to overfill them, these engines had so much power you could not be sure the clutch would stall them, but I think that overall the amount of over fill would not have run them for long enough to destruct, but (4) now this is a very different story, being a two stroke engine (yes these horizontally opposed engines fired on every compression forcing two pistons apart) they (with the in line pumps) would run in reverse and as the governor was now inoperative it would run to destruction unless you could stall it, Rick

Commer Knocker, I've seen a few old lorries with that engine. Such a bloody racket!

 

[Terranoman]

http://youtu.be/U6ZaWGWnaD4

Link to my engine running.

Bit of oil coming out of filler.

 

[solarman216]

http://youtu.be/U6ZaWGWnaD4

Link to my engine running.

Bit of oil coming out of filler.

that's normal mate it did not look like there was a lot of pressure coming out as well cos when you removed the filler while it was running your hand was steady, when they got a bit of pressure as you get to the last thread the filler jumps up a little, and you get spattered with a lot more oil than yours, Rick

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

As Rick says, that is nothing to worry about.... They do splash and blow a lot of oil up there...

When you over filled it, the oil is pushed up into the bottom of that Black pot like thing, on the top right of the engine.. The Oil separator.

The thing drawn round in red in this picture..

Basically, it has 3 pipes, one in from the rocker cover, under the intercooler, one out to the air pipe that runs from the air box, to the turbo (Drawn in blue, in my picture) and a third drain pipe, that runs down to the bottom of the engine (Green in the picture).

When the engine oil is overfull, it is pushed up the "green" pipe, and into the oil separator. There is a one way valve in the separator, which forces the oil out to the air pipe, where is is then sucked into the turbo. Once you get "run away", the pipe acts like a straw, and allows the turbo to suck the oil straight out the sump, but in theory, should stop once the oil level drops back to a "Normal" level, provided it has not done any damage first.

Mine was doing it, because oil was leaking from the turbo, straight into the inlet side, which is worse, as that only stops when there is no more oil, for the oil pump to pick up!

When mine did it, it filled the intercooler with the oil, and until I took it off, and cleaned it up, the car felt very lumpy. I was amazed just how much oil the intercooler can hold, and at a guess, I reckon there was about 1/2 a pint in mine, 2 weeks after it did it.

Something else that may be worth checking, is that oil, going into a hot turbo, will have created a lot of fumes in the air intake, and may have contaminated the MAF. Not sure where I stand on this whole "Cleaning" it malarky, as I keep reading so many different opinions, so I will leave that up to you, but might be worth a check for sooting, and oily film up there.

 

[Banshee]

As Rick says, that is nothing to worry about.... They do splash and blow a lot of oil up there...

When you over filled it, the oil is pushed up into the bottom of that Black pot like thing, on the top right of the engine.. The Oil separator.

The thing drawn round in red in this picture..

Basically, it has 3 pipes, one in from the rocker cover, under the intercooler, one out to the air pipe that runs from the air box, to the turbo (Drawn in blue, in my picture) and a third drain pipe, that runs down to the bottom of the engine (Green in the picture).

When the engine oil is overfull, it is pushed up the "green" pipe, and into the oil separator. There is a one way valve in the separator, which forces the oil out to the air pipe, where is is then sucked into the turbo. Once you get "run away", the pipe acts like a straw, and allows the turbo to suck the oil straight out the sump, but in theory, should stop once the oil level drops back to a "Normal" level, provided it has not done any damage first.

Mine was doing it, because oil was leaking from the turbo, straight into the inlet side, which is worse, as that only stops when there is no more oil, for the oil pump to pick up!

When mine did it, it filled the intercooler with the oil, and until I took it off, and cleaned it up, the car felt very lumpy. I was amazed just how much oil the intercooler can hold, and at a guess, I reckon there was about 1/2 a pint in mine, 2 weeks after it did it.

Something else that may be worth checking, is that oil, going into a hot turbo, will have created a lot of fumes in the air intake, and may have contaminated the MAF. Not sure where I stand on this whole "Cleaning" it malarky, as I keep reading so many different opinions, so I will leave that up to you, but might be worth a check for sooting, and oily film up there.

I've read that the Hitachi can be manually cleaned and that the Bosch is self cleaning, but if you have a Bosch and it's running crappy then it's time to replace as they cannot be cleaned and if you do you will damage it

 

[Terranoman]

Many thanks :thumbs

I have left it a few days now and it wont start. I will disconnect the maf and see if there is any difference. If not I will try to clean or replace. Think its a Bosch.

My main worry is the knocking coming from the engine. Cant really hear it on the video.

Was trying to get the engine compression tested but cant seem to find anyone who will do it.

Once again cheers for the advice. :clap:clap:clap

 

[solarman216]

bad maf will not stop it starting, glow plugs or bad glow plug relay will, can you check your plugs? Rick

 

[Terranoman]

Yes Rick easlily done. Not till the weekend now though.

Mark