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BTW, I suspect a 300tdi without a turbo wouldn't revert to a N/A because it's designed to work with a turbo and the air mix would be completely wrong without turbo.

hmmm yeh suppose it would confuse the mixture. remember when one of our 3s (volvo decker) blew its turbo (at 3 years old) it limped back around 5mph flat out. but these buses set up so they wont actualy move until turbo is up to full power rather than turbo adding extra when needed

now put off to Sunday weather was too good

in addition to Cedrics post found a few u tube clips on how to do it for idiots

watch out john. some of these clips are MADE by idiots lol

Had a similar problem with my td5 turned out to be fuel pump.  Hope this helps.

It could be the pump, but on td5 you'd know because either it would make a squealing noise as if there was air in the system, or it would be completely silent. It's normally easy to test with a gauge connected where the temperature sensor on the FPR is (or inline) that should show a constant 4 bar.

I don't know how the 300tdi pump works so I can't say anything regarding that.

The joy of being a taxi driver picked up a guy today who lives not half a mile a way,who just happens to be a land rover trained mechanic,he agrees symptoms poss waste gate and is coming over next week for a look,by god I will kidnap him sort out another few wee things

for heavens sake. now hes dragging out passengers to repair his fleet. what next?

No mechanic is safe lol

The joy of being a taxi driver picked up a guy today who lives not half a mile a way,who just happens to be a land rover trained mechanic,he agrees symptoms poss waste gate and is coming over next week for a look,by god I will kidnap him sort out another few wee things

             Why was the mechanic in a taxi John, had his car broken down ?      

lol no he had gone to the pub after giving up on a fuel problem on a D3

Typicaly unreliable phoned him a few times and cant pin him down to a time to pop over its driving me mad seeing the 110 just sitting there,just have to save up and get it to garage

Aw poor didums
We can catch up at the weekend and sort out a few alternatives, even if it means towing you to the garage, suggest you get a few quotes so you know what its costing and who is the cheapest.
Chin up old fruit

Its not end of the world it seems ok to drive a few miles no problem,just lookin forward to w/e and will get on with 110 and 90 when get some time

After spending every spare minute for the last month working on the house I finally had an afternoon on the 90 rebuild.....completely stumped by a short on the n/s side-light circuit, blows the fuze as soon as the switch is on. The wiring for all the stuff on the back-door is also completely fried, bare wire and melted plastic all the way from the switch to the ignition live block in the dashboard. Looks like its going to be a tedious job tracking down whats melted into what.