{"id":2980,"date":"2017-04-05T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:33:30","slug":"ford-focus-mk1-1-8-tddi-low-performance-vehicle-and-high-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/ford-focus-mk1-1-8-tddi-low-performance-vehicle-and-high-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Focus MK1 1.8 TDDi: poor car performance and high smoke levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, everyone.<\/p>\n

Today I would like to give you a 'tip', in case you happen to have a Ford Focus Mk1<\/strong>, with motorisation 1.8 Tddi<\/strong> (engine not equipped with a flute rail), which has high smoke and poor efficiency.<\/p>\n

\"\"The special feature of this car, apart from the fact that it has a mixed distribution<\/strong> (chain from crankshaft to injection pump and belt from injection pump to camshaft), is to have a camshaft pulley that is not 'keyed'. Over time this tends to rotate, almost imperceptibly, around the axis of the camshaft, thus changing the valve opening and closing times.<\/p>\n

To verify the position of the camshaft pulley<\/strong> the appropriate phase pins must be correctly positioned; by doing so, the motor will present a correct phasing<\/strong>\u00a0e\u00a0<\/strong>appropriate checks can be carried out.<\/p>\n

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This phenomenon can therefore adversely affect engine performance, causing a drop in performance and high black smoke from the exhaust.<\/p>\n

N.B.: High smoke and poor efficiency may also indicate other types of failure, e.g. a possible clogging of the egr valve<\/strong> or a suction sleeve<\/strong> damaged, it is therefore necessary to check the integrity of these components before working on the camshaft pulley.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Good work and...... see you next time!\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning everyone. Today I would like to give you a \"tip\", in case you happen to have a Ford Focus Mk1 in the workshop, [...].<\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[170],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls":{},"appp_media":null,"views":2236,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}