Thread: Help Needed - diesel mechanic advice

I know in the mitsis -2.8 and 3.2-diesels from 92 onwards have issues with EGR valves filling up the intake with soot. You get a 2.8 like mine with some blow-by (they all do that) and it turns to crap.
Best thing you can do is take the intake off, clean them out and block the egr off. I have heard the 3.2's can be really fecked up by it.
also don't touch the 3.2 mitsi diesels if they are pre 2006ish. They have a small ecu thingy in the fuel pump which controls the magic. If they fail its close to 5k to sort.
Unless you get it super cheap and have the coin to sort it, don't touch them.
sometimes old not so good. Its a fine line now between old and reliable/workable and needing too much to keep it going versus newer-shouldn't have to touch it but really hurts if you do.
Ive had to do a head gasket on mine and replace a bunch of stuff after a timing chain let go and put a hole in the timing cover-still needed the pump professionally reset as I couldn't do that. If I wasn't reasonably mechanically handy it would've gone to the wreckers as it would've cost too much to repair