Toyota MR2

[lozzzzzz]

Cool, Right you are then, I'll give it a good thrashing to the MOT station and hope the MOT man has a reduced vision and smell that day

Hopefully I can borrow VAG Com off a friend of mine again

[lozzzzzz]

Yeah, I mean glow plug when I wrote coil

[julesandtash]

The glowplug light flashing is indication that the ecu has detected a fault somewhere, basically it is the fault warning.
You really need VAGCOM to scan it for codes and see what is wrong.

[Jamesrl]

From my years of playing with diesels,  boats and cars,

blue smoke = engine oil burning

White/Grey/blueish = unburnt diesel (timing or injectors)

Black or black deposit on the rear = insufficeint air (badly coked valves or/and air filter/inlet manifold)

Any one of the above or a combination of.

[petep900]

From my years of playing with diesels,  boats and cars,

blue smoke = engine oil burning

White/Grey/blueish = unburnt diesel (timing or injectors)

Black or black deposit on the rear = insufficeint air (badly coked valves or/and air filter/inlet manifold)

Any one of the above or a combination of.

....and LOADS of smoke - The bloody thing is on fire.   

[Dickjotec]

You are welcome to vagcom again.
The coil light can flash with any fault on the break light circuit especially the break light switch. Have you connected one up yet?
Timing is set with vag com to get it accurate it would be worth setting it when you borrow.

[lozzzzzz]

OOOOo I didn't know you could set the timing with VAGCom That would be helpful. 

Thats a little annoying if it's a brake circuit thing, I thought I was pretty thorough keeping all that stuff so I could use the cruise control.  I guess VAGCom will reveal all. 

[Dickjotec]

Have a look at this
http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-scope/TDIGraph.html The video at the bottom shows all.

[Tony]

Come back from holiday to some new pictures of progress, harrah!

Since the engine hasn't been used for a while, don't panic just yet, it may just need a good run.  The Largo I'm currently using sat on the drive for months, and on starting ran really lumping, jumping engine, smoked out the neighbourhood, when revved was really rough.  But after a good blast back to nice and clean and smooth.

[Julian]

Wife was watching a program about a bag lady playing at being a detective last night, so I had a browse around Youtube and came up with one on building a 4x4 mini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s

There's a whole series of 9 videos and they've only just finished the body and fitting major components, took a long time to watch them all (but way better than bag lady).  There's some wonderful sheet metal work shown and the two guys approach things in an amusingly light hearted manner ... makes good viewing.

All rather reminiscent of what you're doing.  They too keep their work space annoyingly clean!

[Head Womble]

Was said bag lady the one with the LR ?

[Julian]

Was said bag lady the one with the LR ?

I hope you're not referring to Felicity, she's a real babe.

[Head Womble]

Wife was watching a program about a bag lady playing at being a detective last night, so I had a browse around Youtube and came up with one on building a 4x4 mini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s

There's a whole series of 9 videos and they've only just finished the body and fitting major components, took a long time to watch them all (but way better than bag lady).  There's some wonderful sheet metal work shown and the two guys approach things in an amusingly light hearted manner ... makes good viewing.

All rather reminiscent of what you're doing.  They too keep their work space annoyingly clean!

Well that took care of my nights entertainment.

They're nutters, but very clever nutters.

[knighty]

I've been watching project blinky for a while..... on the edge of my seat waiting for the next episode :-o

[Head Womble]

I've been watching project blinky for a while..... on the edge of my seat waiting for the next episode :-o

gisa heads up when the next one is posted.