Showing strip of indirect injection version claimed 1000,000 kilometers 600,000miles
Direct and common rail very similar
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Showing strip of indirect injection version claimed 1000,000 kilometers 600,000miles
Direct and common rail very similar
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Great video of a good solid well designed engine that was simple to work on and went for miles and miles, unlike modern engines eh!
That engine was stuck in all sorts of things, weirdest one was as a generator and pump on a Russian decontamination unit…which is kind of apt in relation to the videos origins
A "proper" engine. My old Cordoba had the 1.9 Pre PD (VE) engine with electronic control distributor type injection pump. There wasn't anything I ran into in some 20 years of ownership which I couldn't sort. You did need VCDS to set the timing up after timing belt changes though, but it was a worthwhile investment for doing other "stuff", like resetting service interval etc, etc. I gave up on the diesels when the CR engines came in.Great video of a good solid well designed engine that was simple to work on and went for miles and miles, unlike modern engines eh!
I fell out with bosch on this engine, the IVECO came with Marelli of Bosch alternator. I went through two bosch in two years and fitted the marelli instead, lower output but wa still working four years after wehn I sold it
I must have been lucky then because I had that car for around 20 years and the alternator was never renewed (can't remember if it was a Bosch though) The injector pump, which I seem to remember used bosch electronics? never failed although it was leaking fuel towards the end which was part of the bigger reason why I eventually scrapped her. I've always been more involved with petrol engines but my older boy had a Fabia with the 1.9 PD in it which was an engine I rather liked. Did cam belts twice on it and various other tasks - still got the locking tools, so maybe one day? - It fooled me with a missfire for a while until I found out about the injector loom problem which I was luckily able to sort with a couple of spare connectors supplied by my friends at the local Audi independent. Then he replaced it with a Fabia Scout which had the 1.6 Common Rail which used to go wrong a lot. Blocked DPF, Blocked EGR (and that's a sod to get at, I handed it off to the lads at our local indy in the end) The final stroke was when the Cat suffered fatigue fractures. Welded the cracks up and traded it in against the Kia Rio he has now which is in it's sixth year and has never missed a beat!
I have to admit that my fall out with bosch, long term, is also with power tools. I had, in last five years; two bosch grinders burn out, replaced by vendor under warranty second time I got my money back and bought a cheap macalister one to keep me going, it’s still working after grinding and paint stripping a 57 foot Leeds Liverpool short boat! A drill driver that’s had two bosch chucks and now has a spurious one I got from our local tool store, that’s apart from the number of lithium batteries that failed straight out of warranty and I’ve resoldered, along with the trigger, I’ve a guild one the same age that’s faultless; a bosch circular saw that’s been replaced once, luckily it’s still going but, although rated at cutting 50mm is really only good for half that…and I’m one for letting the saw/drill/grinder etc ‘do the work’ rather than ‘putting my weight behind it’
I do still, however, have a ten year old bosch washing machine…so not all bad
…oh yes and a multi-tool, one of those vibrating cutting, scraping things, that decided to spit the shaft out, now have a guild one of those too
Great video of a good solid well designed engine that was simple to work on and went for miles and miles, unlike modern engines eh!
I was surprised at 40,000 mile cam belt change interval but see that it also drives everything on the accessory block (power steering , water pump etc).....maybe not
High mileage iveco owners must have enjoyed having the front of their vans stripped off every time cam belt changed!
But loads of access to belt after front removed
and unlikely retaining bolts had time to seize.I was surprised at 40,000 mile cam belt change interval but see that it also drives everything on the accessory block (power steering , water pump etc).....maybe not
High mileage iveco owners must have enjoyed having the front of their vans stripped off every time cam belt changed!
But loads of access to belt after front removed
As you say on the Iveco Daily's many times I have unplugged the n/s headlights and undone the four nuts holding the front grill and swung it around to gain access leaving the bonnet cable connected, but so much more access down both sides of the engine then being RWD. Just like working on cars in the old days. Tie that to a proper steel chassis, so less likely to rust. I know the payload is less, but I had a customer with a 1997 Ducato Maxi that the windscreen had to be replaced at every Mot due to it cracking from bodyflex very soon after, though I wouldn't say the owners staff were that mechanically sympathetic, I was always having to repair the sliding doors etc.
. Tie that to a proper steel chassis, so less likely to rust. I know the payload is less, but I had a customer with a 1997 Ducato Maxi that the windscreen had to be replaced at every Mot due to it cracking from bodyflex very soon after, though I wouldn't say the owners staff were that mechanically sympathetic, I was always having to repair the sliding doors etc.
Both my 2.5td were chain drive
Later my 2.8 was belt, as were both 2.8 turbo and not turbo ducatos. However, we got some later ones in with chain drives which was unusual, as they were reserved, according to the manuals, for military and civil defence, fire/police/mountain rescue/ambulance applications…I believe those ones supplied to the RAF were chains
Later my 2.8 was belt, as were both 2.8 turbo and not turbo ducatos. However, we got some later ones in with chain drives which was unusual, as they were reserved, according to the manuals, for military and civil defence, fire/police/mountain rescue/ambulance applications…I believe those ones supplied to the RAF were chains
Ducato ones falling off the top rail, daily’s falling off the bottom!As you say on the Iveco Daily's many times I have unplugged the n/s headlights and undone the four nuts holding the front grill and swung it around to gain access leaving the bonnet cable connected, but so much more access down both sides of the engine then being RWD. Just like working on cars in the old days
Mine still does, not that it’s gone anywhere…since turning it into a project, the missus uses it as a store cupboardMine were all civilian use, I think even the first 2.5 indirect injection N reg one with dog leg first gear was belt driven.
I was always tempted by the 4X4 versions but as they were way over 3.5 tonne I would have needed an Operators License as I couldn't have left them on the road.
My friend in Cornwall has a Peugeot Boxer that has now been relegated to storage of auction purchases he wishes to keep out of his wife's sight, I call it his chicken shed.Ducato ones falling off the top rail, daily’s falling off the bottom!
Only slightly late but I believe you can apply to down rate the gvw of a vehicle - clearly payload would then have to be restricted . Then you could leave it on the road to impress your least favourite neighbour.
I was going to downrate an Iveco Daily 5 tonne as I could buy it cheaper than the 3.5 only a few years ago but the Government Agency involved wanted me to fit 3.5 springs and bump stops then take it for a test, there was a whole load of paperwork they wanted me to do also so it wasn't viable.
I had a 35C13 CrewCab Pickup with a tipping back that I fitted a Hiab type crane to, it ran perfectly and would have happily carried a good weight, but after putting it on a weighbridge I discovered my legal payload would have been around 300Kgs.
I remember in the past Transit transporters used to come for Mot with no fuel, spare wheel or inner rear wheels as they had just gone on a weighbridge to get a certificate to say they could have a Class four I think l Mot , something like 1525 Kg unladen?
Saying about leaving outside a neighbours house, one of mine was and extended long wheel base Iveco Daily Van around 23ft long and the lady who owned the house was happy for me to park there as it stopped kids kicking their balls into her garden, she didn't say if it meant leaving her lights on during the daytime
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Yeah, they don’t make it easy and I had to go above and beyond to get down a class
Had to have a metal plate riveted to bulkhead under seats and a piece of plastic engraved plate on n/s/f footwell-step with new weight, max weights over axles and all sorts of other info and ref numbers…and some DoT places dot every i and cross every t…but I didn’t have to replace springs
Saying that I knew a lad with a massive old 3.5 tonne Iveco Daily car transporter that had been professionally extended, I couldn't understand how it was registered in the log book as 3.5 tonne. I looked in the cab and there was a plate from the specialist who converted it stating the weight was somewhere around 5 tonne, the lad hadn't even seen that, so some one made a mistake!!!