Hi Everyone,

Again very grateful for all of your help - wanted to share whats going on with my car and hoping for some good advice as always. L320 3.6TD V8 RRS with 130,000 miles on the clock - zero problems thus far.

Last week - changed the oil and filter (with Ford A5/B5 5W-30 Fully synthetic)
Also changed the fuel filter and air filter.

Today morning - Use Wynn's diesel fuel injector cleaner with 20 litres of high grade diesel (Usually use the normal stuff).

Today Afternoon - when making a u-turn noticed a small pop, and then afterwards loss of power. Noticed slight rattle from the engine. No smoke - turned off the engine and restarted the ignition to a huge plume of whitish smoke. Checked the oil level and no surprise there was no oil in the engine so suspect a problem with my turbo.

Do you reckon it's one or both turbos? Or potentially the actuator? (Have read this somewhere but no idea) Any relation to the service last week or injector cleaner this morning?

Not feeling too good right now.....

Alex

Sounds like a turbo if the oil level has dropped significantly

Same happened to mine, don’t try restarting it as you may end up hydro locking the engine with oil. Most likely turbo has gone and if you get it repaired then better off doing both anyway.

I see...if it isn't the turbo what else could it be?

Wondering why none of the engine managmenet lights turned on....

There is a really simple way to confirm the turbo/turbos have failed, pull off one of the lower intercooler pipes, doesn't matter which one, but be prepared to catch a load of oil!!

The pipe's can be accessed by removing a couple of the lower covers, couple of bolts and/or clips.

PS> on the 2 occassions my turbos have failed I got no codes straight away, only once the intercooler had filled up with about 3 litres of oil did a warning code get set, probably because the oil effectively starves the engine of air

Completely forgot that I actually posted this on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDSTTlhfQ4

When the turbos went on my TDV8 the only symptoms were a loss of power and a good deal of white, very smelly, smoke from the tail pipes. No dash lights came on at all. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Thats it - loss of power - white smoke - and oil through the intercooler pipes.

Chances have it i'm down in Spain for holiday. Have the body off a the local garage and all the local turbo refurbishers are all on holiday for another week.

Want a mate to fly 2 down from the UK - any of you reckon the airlines allow turbo charges on board. US FAA say parts that contain fuel (including oil) or have contained fuel at one point are prohibited.

Anything else productive I can look for/do to the car while we are waiting with the body removed?

Best

Alexander

Sorry to hear your pain, I still have the scars!! My v8 did the same 2 weeks before Xmas!! I put my foot down (I never thrash it) on the dual carriageway and as she was pulling there was a weird “ crack” and a small “ping” and total loss of power and it would turn over but not start. The oil does indeed settle in intercooler pipes and as you call on the turbos to do their thing it sucks in the oil and hydraulics the same as going through deep water. The v8 has so much torque it bends the conrods (2 on mine) and keeps turning where as the v6 normally snap the crank. Please check you haven’t bent rods before fitting new turbos and re fitting body. Incidentally, don’t know how they did it but NZ engines in Essex never lift body to remove engine from the v8 sport but always on the v6. If a hammer won't fix it.... It's electrical!!