Ladies and Gents,
As promised in the intro thread, i'm here for your sage wisdom.
Car is a Mk5 2.0 TDi with the BKD engine.
Scenario is - i had removed the EGR valve for a cleanup, and when i replaced it the car wouldnt run at anything more than idle.
On the driveway, at part throttle it would cough and splutter, and driving would run on one cylinder and smoke like yul brynner.
Disconnecting the EGR valve on the driveway it ran fine at part throttle.
So, I'd figured i'd buggered up the EGR valve during cleaning. New EGR valve goes on.
No change to the running at all.
As a matter of fact, on the road, with EGR valve disconnected from the vacuum hose, the car struggled to hit 60 KM/H. Full throttle kicked it down a gear, it revved happily, but no power.
I SUSPECT that when I did the EGR valve replacement I'd just missed plugging something back in, or had inadvertently unplugged something while swinging spanners around in there. But I can't see anything obvious.
I doubt it's the vacuum servo block cr@pping out, because it would be too much of a coincidence.
Thoughts?
As promised in the intro thread, i'm here for your sage wisdom.
Car is a Mk5 2.0 TDi with the BKD engine.
Scenario is - i had removed the EGR valve for a cleanup, and when i replaced it the car wouldnt run at anything more than idle.
On the driveway, at part throttle it would cough and splutter, and driving would run on one cylinder and smoke like yul brynner.
Disconnecting the EGR valve on the driveway it ran fine at part throttle.
So, I'd figured i'd buggered up the EGR valve during cleaning. New EGR valve goes on.
No change to the running at all.
As a matter of fact, on the road, with EGR valve disconnected from the vacuum hose, the car struggled to hit 60 KM/H. Full throttle kicked it down a gear, it revved happily, but no power.
I SUSPECT that when I did the EGR valve replacement I'd just missed plugging something back in, or had inadvertently unplugged something while swinging spanners around in there. But I can't see anything obvious.
I doubt it's the vacuum servo block cr@pping out, because it would be too much of a coincidence.
Thoughts?
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