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so the story goes...
bought the car this spring it is an 03 alh with 127k on it. the PO bought it from a friend that moved away drove it for a short time and stop when the problems started. the cel came on and he brought it to autozone and an over boost was logged he then cleared the codes. we test drove the can and it was not boosting at all. so i priced a turbo and talked him down quite a bit and got the car. as it turns out the car had previously been a greasecar. all the veggi stuff had been removed i assumed when the car started running poorly.
the car is my girlfriends car an she has been driving it as slow as it is.
the symptoms at first were that it was not boosting at all, i replaced the turbo and still no boost, i checked and cleaned the boost sensor in the IC, tested the n75 nothing. as it tuned out the check valve in front of the n75 was installed backward.. problem one fixed it now has boost.
the symptoms now, it has no power it will not climb hills. the engine even in neutral has a hard time reving pas 3k in gear driving it will get just over 3k and just wont go it seems to be misfiring and dumps smoke when accelerating. on cold start it will have white smoke for maybe 10 15 seconds but goes away.
what i have done, when i did the turbo i cleaned the intake and replaced the timing belt/water pump
replaced maf no change. removed and cleaned a very clogged egr cooler no change. replaced the glowplugs as they where pretty ugly no change.
i have checked and replaced all vacuum lines. and checked for boost leaks. all are fine
the worst of all no codes or cel since we got it
bought the car this spring it is an 03 alh with 127k on it. the PO bought it from a friend that moved away drove it for a short time and stop when the problems started. the cel came on and he brought it to autozone and an over boost was logged he then cleared the codes. we test drove the can and it was not boosting at all. so i priced a turbo and talked him down quite a bit and got the car. as it turns out the car had previously been a greasecar. all the veggi stuff had been removed i assumed when the car started running poorly.
the car is my girlfriends car an she has been driving it as slow as it is.
the symptoms at first were that it was not boosting at all, i replaced the turbo and still no boost, i checked and cleaned the boost sensor in the IC, tested the n75 nothing. as it tuned out the check valve in front of the n75 was installed backward.. problem one fixed it now has boost.
the symptoms now, it has no power it will not climb hills. the engine even in neutral has a hard time reving pas 3k in gear driving it will get just over 3k and just wont go it seems to be misfiring and dumps smoke when accelerating. on cold start it will have white smoke for maybe 10 15 seconds but goes away.
what i have done, when i did the turbo i cleaned the intake and replaced the timing belt/water pump
replaced maf no change. removed and cleaned a very clogged egr cooler no change. replaced the glowplugs as they where pretty ugly no change.
i have checked and replaced all vacuum lines. and checked for boost leaks. all are fine
the worst of all no codes or cel since we got it
