boostedwagon
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Alrighty so I'm a TDI newbie, but I have spent maybe 60 hours into my TDI before realizing the motor was dead.
I'm torn about what to do and what could be wrong with my car besides it needing some motor work or a whole new motor.
The fuel injection pump died which then cause my engine to die and lose compression. It started to windmill after several attempts at cranking it. After spending COUNTLESS hours researching online and troubleshooting it, installing a used, but good, injection pump along with a bunch of other stuff, it finally dawned onto me that "this fast cranking prob isn't normal", so I called a shop and I was informed that if it's windmilling then there's no compression. So there's that.
I only had the car a couple weeks and was sooo happy to have a 5-speed TDI Wagon because my current daily is a V8. I'm pretty mechanically inclined, but diesels as I learned are a bit of a different ball game. I am now more or less not a total newbie. I work on Audi's and VW's, but the gas versions, so I have plenty of tools, VCDS, etc.
So bottom line is I want to possibly keep the car if all I will need to do is buy a new motor or possibly just replace some of the internals, but what I would really like some help on is figuring out what exactly could have caused my motor to die (besides the obvious lack of compression) and what needs to be replaced if not the whole motor itself?
Would greatly appreciate any input. Hail and praise you TDI guru's, I have a whole new appreciation for you guys after spending so many hours on this car haha.
EDIT: The car in question is a MK4 Jetta with an ALH motor.
I'm torn about what to do and what could be wrong with my car besides it needing some motor work or a whole new motor.
The fuel injection pump died which then cause my engine to die and lose compression. It started to windmill after several attempts at cranking it. After spending COUNTLESS hours researching online and troubleshooting it, installing a used, but good, injection pump along with a bunch of other stuff, it finally dawned onto me that "this fast cranking prob isn't normal", so I called a shop and I was informed that if it's windmilling then there's no compression. So there's that.
I only had the car a couple weeks and was sooo happy to have a 5-speed TDI Wagon because my current daily is a V8. I'm pretty mechanically inclined, but diesels as I learned are a bit of a different ball game. I am now more or less not a total newbie. I work on Audi's and VW's, but the gas versions, so I have plenty of tools, VCDS, etc.
So bottom line is I want to possibly keep the car if all I will need to do is buy a new motor or possibly just replace some of the internals, but what I would really like some help on is figuring out what exactly could have caused my motor to die (besides the obvious lack of compression) and what needs to be replaced if not the whole motor itself?
Would greatly appreciate any input. Hail and praise you TDI guru's, I have a whole new appreciation for you guys after spending so many hours on this car haha.
EDIT: The car in question is a MK4 Jetta with an ALH motor.
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