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I know a chap I that used to work with about 15 yrs.ago,used to run an old Ford Escort diesel on old chip/veg.oil that he used to collect from 3/4 local chippies.He built a pump and large Cummins fuel filter to clean it,and then blend clean white diesel with it to sweeten it up a little.Mechanical lift pump and mechanical injector pump,no problems for the five years that he worked for us.

OK thanks mate.

I blank the radiator area off on my 6Y5(1.9Tdi) in the winter months.A sheet of thick plastic (its an old insulated board out of an old mains panel) that just slides in behind the grill,I drilled a few holes in it, and use tie-wraps to hold it to the grill frame.Blanks off virtually all of the grill area, just leaving the part below the bumper open.Car doesn’t warm up much quicker but the heater is better.Then just take it out every spring.

Any chance of a link for that steering wheel cover ?

Measure the voltage between the battery negative post and the chassis, that will tell you whether you have a bad earth or not.Should be as close to zero as possible.

Definitely a vent valve that opens when you refit the tank cap.If I fill the tank to the brim on my 6Y5,and then press the small lever with the fuel nozzle,the fuel in the filler neck disappears and I can get a few more litres in,I keep pressing it until I cannot get anymore in.It never gives me any fuel expansion/overflowing problems as the filling station is a few miles from my home and an amount of diesel is used to lower the level as I drive home.

I don’t know this engine access wise so cannot help with that but how about a gentle tweek with a small heel bar or screwdriver on the front crank pulley or is there any access around the flywheel area.There is only supposed to be a couple of thou clearance when new, my 1.4 Tdi was so badly worn the unworn thrust fell out and I had to be recovered.I have never had a clutch in any car I have had over many years so I wondered if the person that had the car before me got rid it for that reason, as the car cut out on an island just after I bought it, and then again just after I had got back from Germany.I couldn’t sus out the problem until my friendly local garage towed it in and found the problem.New thrust set only got the end float back to about 015” from memory,so the car had to go.(the crank end float had taken the crankshaft out of the range of the crank speed sensor, hence no injection.)

Hello mate,if I read this correctly, you have had the clutch problem for some time.Just make sure it hasn’t jiggered the crank thrust washers with the clutch problem pushing the crank over a long period of time.As in check the crank end float.