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Transit breakdown - any ideas?

dilalio

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Van packed up on way home yesterday.

Noticed oil light on (may have been on for a few days and obscured by a torch I keep there).

Oil drips were on customers drive and I thought it was the builder's clapped out tipper!

It went into limp mode and was wheezing... Loss of compression?

Couldn't pull over for about a mile as too narrow a lane.

Pulled into a slip road and switched off.

Left it a minute or two and tried to restart. Nothing, something electrical popped and then no ignition lights on key turn.

Something clicking down low in centre between footwells when key turned - like a pump trying to prime maybe?

Anyway, had to be somewhere so called Mrs to pick me and valuable tools up.

I have breakdown cover but my mechanic is away in Belgium and the other in Bedford on hols.

So, stumped as to where to get it towed!

Should I take a gallon of oil with me when I go back to it today?

Cheers for any pointers... It's a big van and I'm stranded!

FFS :notworthy:
 
Scally-Ho said:
Get hold of a diagnostic OBII code reader and plug it into the socket. Take a laptop with you and search what the codes indicate.
The clicking could be the starter solenoid trying to engage the starter of a seized engine, but that's only guesswork.

There is a dedicated Transit forum.
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Thanks mate.
I'm pretty convinced it's major.
The symptoms just beforehand seem to point to it seizing up.

My own fault I guess.
 
If you have recovery get it brought to you home or find another dealer to look at it and get it moved there
 
Newish Ford Transit. Wet belt engine problems. If it does have a wet belt some idiot decided that a synthetic rubber timing belt running in oil was a good idea. Oil tends to melt the rubber allowing fibres from the belt to clog the oil pickup and causes the engine to seize through a lack of oil. Wet belt engines are fitted to a range of vehicle models but from what I can see on the web Ford are recalling some of their wet belt vehicles because there is a chain mod available. BUT I don't think that would apply IF the engine has already seized. Maybe do some research.
 
It's in the back of a recovery truck, on its way here to my place.
It's a 60 plate so no wet belt.

Just think the oil light was obscured and I didn't see it!

Recovery guy put power on it with a power pack and dash lit up but just starter clicking so sounds like engine not turning over - has to be seized.

:(
 
I'm tempted to ask .. how many miles since you last checked the oil level, prior to this incident?
Unless you have a fairly serious leak it will take a lot of mileage before the oil level is low enough to illuminate the light & by the time it does ..
 
Almost reminds me of a friend many years ago who was given his grandad's Morris Marina as his first car. He used to think the oil light on the dash was how you knew it was low and time to top up. That poor car!
 
Quote from an old farmer >
'I've had this old Land Rover for 20 years & never topped-up the oil .. how come the damn thing has seized up now?'
 
My GD had her car 5 years and 40k mikes when I casually asked her where she got it serviced. What? she said. Its now had an oil change and brakes checked. Another oil change due in August after she’s run it around to get the crap out a bit.
 
Fred Blogs said:
Newish Ford Transit. Wet belt engine problems. If it does have a wet belt some idiot decided that a synthetic rubber timing belt running in oil was a good idea. Oil tends to melt the rubber allowing fibres from the belt to clog the oil pickup and causes the engine to seize through a lack of oil. Wet belt engines are fitted to a range of vehicle models but from what I can see on the web Ford are recalling some of their wet belt vehicles because there is a chain mod available. BUT I don't think that would apply IF the engine has already seized. Maybe do some research.
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My son has just got a new focus ST line estate. 1.0 155bhp chain driven engine (belt driven oil pump though so he tells me). They are finally doing away with the wet belt driven engines.
 
Yes, me too, but it might be that the engine did not suffer too much and the clicking starter solenoid was just a hot part not engaging properly. I've witnessed severely overheated engines that when fully cooled and turned over by hand (spanner on crank) rotated quite freely. It wasn't reported that this Transit had boiled dry, so there IS hope :unsure:
 
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