i have a 2000 vauxhall zafira diesel, and boy does it smoke, billows of white smoke compleatley blocks the street, loss of power, engine seems fine otherwise, its turbo, could this be a possible fault?
can you get a reconditioned turbo? how can i tell if its that for definate?
also the clutch has gone, its hydralic,with no resevoir that i can see just a pipe going to the slave cylinder with a bleed nipple .
any ideas please reg julian5
{post slightly reformatted for clarity - DD}
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 03/11/2007 at 17:30
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Could it be a head gasket failure or maybe too much oik in the sump? Neither of these would effect clutch though?
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Is it steam then, rather than smoke? Sounds like head gasket.
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Could it be a head gasket failure or maybe too much oik in the sump?
i have problems up here with oiks but never had one in the sump ;-)
op does sound like water and headgasket,could you get a local mobile mechanic to give it a look over,every town usually has one thats got a good reputation,ask at a small independant local if you dont
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My dad acidently put too much oil in the car one, the result was huge amounts of white steam as if the HG had gone, I did think it was the GH at first untiul the garage said there was about 2 litres too much oil in the sump!
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help i have a2000 vauxhall zafira diesel and boy does it smoke billows of white smoke compleatley blocks the street lose of power engine seems fine otherwise
can you elaborate a bit more " engine seems fine otherwise"?
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also the clutch has gone its hydralic with no resevoir that i can see
It shares the same reservior as the brake fluid.
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A thought. Can a brake servo filling up with brake / clutch hydraulic fluid through a failed seal draw it into the engine to burn it as white smoke?
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