So sorry to hear the bad news.

Maybe the MOT tester was just been a bit picky !! 🤔 or maybe not.

Looks like the injectors are all over the place, are they the originals ?

35 minutes ago, unofix said:

So sorry to hear the bad news.

Maybe the MOT tester was just been a bit picky !! 🤔 or maybe not.

Looks like the injectors are all over the place, are they the originals ?

Haven’t a clue. One is supposedly a refurb. No. 1. 
Tempted to get another 3 from the same car and bang em in. 

So here’s where I’m at. 
Four injectors arrived today. They looked newer than the 2010 parts that they were supposed to be. 
went in no prob. Even the copper seals looked spanking new so didn’t even bother replacing them. 
Guess what…? 
no different. Car started first time and drove great. However after a few miles I came home and left it idling. Clouds of white smoke once again from exhaust. 

Im now thinking something has happened when I had the top end to bits and some valves aren’t sealing properly resulting in low compression and in burnt fuel on idle. 
Guess I’ll have to run a compression test and potentially off with the head once more. 
Really wish I’d taken the valves out and checked and ground them back in when head was off now. 
 

Stats all look good on Forscan with all four hovering around the 1 mark. 
 

Well and truly fed up now. Oh and then there’s the hoover like noise from the turbo. Blowed if I can find a leaky pipe anywhere. Doesn’t sound like turbo whine. 

Is it worth you doing a Hydrocarbon test of the coolant, just encase you have a blown head gasket ?

9 minutes ago, unofix said:

Is it worth you doing a Hydrocarbon test of the coolant, just encase you have a blown head gasket ?

I already renewed the gasket but I did a test and there was no change in fluid colour. I’m thinking valve leakage is about all that’s left now. Won’t be the rings. Think I might just whip the head off and stick a new set of valves in. Gives me a chance to get easier access to the turbo in case I can’t find a split in the feed pipe. 

Update:

Took head off again and this time set about reconditioning properly. Took everything off and everything out. Thoroughly cleaned and de-coked everything. Valves were in a poor state. 
Ground valves back in and renewed stem seals. 
Spent at least 3 hours hunting in the dirt and leaves for a collet which fired out as my valve spring compressor is worse than useless. 
Gave up and bought another. 
spent a good hour cleaning the crud and sediment away from the water jacket around cylinder 4 in the block. It was caked!!! 

All back together and fired her up. No smoke from exhaust and running great. Heater is very hot now. 
 

Took back for MoT and it failed miserably. Flew the the emissions test though with a score of 0.57!! 
 

Spent today fitting new front discs and pads, new track rod ends and a new rear suspension arm. I have never found a bolt so seized in a bush as the inner bolt was. It was literally one with the bush. Was never coming out. Melted the rubber in an attempt to free it. Ended up grinding the whole thing out. Those bush inner steel inserts are tough stuff. 
 

That just leaves handbrake cables to do. Outer casing has rusted in a couple of places and inner cables are struggling to move. 
Retest booked for next Thursday. Finally light at the end of the tunnel. 
😄

10 hours ago, Kevwrightuk said:

Spent at least 3 hours hunting in the dirt and leaves for a collet which fired out as my valve spring compressor is worse than useless. 

Gave up and bought another. 

I felt that! On a vastly much more minor scale, I was adjusting a friends watch bracelet at his house (16 miles from home) and despite all my skill over 4 x decades, the dam spring bar flew off to land on the shaggiest rug ever made by man (the nap was almost 1" in length)! It took me over an hour, with a bright LED torch, and a magnifying glass to find that little sucker. If I'd adjusted it at home, I have a box of 100s of springbars 🤣

Update:

Handbrake cables done along with everything else and now have an MoT. 
 

Now if I could get the notes played by the turbo and steering pump to be in harmony then I could live with it. Sadly each plays out of tune and very loudly so I guess I’ll need to address them. 
 

Pretty sure the hoover like noise from the turbo is not a leaking pipe. They’ve all been off and checked and/or replaced. So I’ll prob get another turbo and stick that in. I seem to remember that when I blasted air into the turbo to get it to spin in made a fairly dreadful noise. 
Hoping it’s just the steering pump and not the rack. Otherwise it’s subframe off time! When will this misery end??

Final update:

New power steering pump on. What an easy job. A welcome relief. Cured one noise. 
 

Another turbo fitted. What a pig of a job. 
next time I’ll remove the CAT and make access a bit easier. Still a bit like a hoover but nothing like it was. 
I figure all these turbos probably whine on a bit. After all, it’s a pretty powerful fan. 
 

So there ends my misery until next year’s MOT. 
 

Thanks for the technical and moral support. 😀

…..or I thought it was the end of my misery. 
I think I ought to start a new thread though. 
Do please join me!