Hi Ford-people! I hope someone can help me with this one... (please excuse any shortcomings in my english here, as I am from and live in Norway)
very short summary: 2008 1,8tdci transit connect, 50 000km. Recently bought. Ran fine for a while, but with what felt like a misfires every now and then - just a quick "twitch". Eventually limp mode, codes red out of the engine and injector #2 faulty. Replaced it, and all worked fine for some months, before same symptoms reappeared. "twitching" - limp mode now and then, but got worse and worse.
Now it only runs in limp mode, with the orange engine warning light on. Tried reading out codes (two different OBDII readers) but I do not get any codes out (have not asked a ford dealer tro try though...)
So - as my budget is tight and I like to (try) fixing things myself, I googled - and figured out I would do a leak-off test of my injectors. So I did, and the results was not as expected.
Bottle nr 2 from left is the recently replaced injector. Almost identical leakage to nr 3 and 4. (Engine was running for about 5 min - though only idling in limp mode). I was expecting MORE leakage from the faulty injector(s) - but I don't really believe 2, 3 and 4 are faulty - since nr 2 is brand new. So what is up with nr 1? Can it be the fuel pump? Or can the injector be broken somehow and have alomost no leakage at all?
Any advice on where to go next would be greatly appreciated!
Robert