Bighorn losing power and smoking badly

[firman]

Copied and pasted from the ITOC for a wider audience,

Guys, new to the forum and fairly new to Bighorn ownership but I have already encountered a problem. After a 1200 mile roadtrip to Scotland last weekend in my 92 Bighorn I had a blowout 30 miles from home on the motorway, So after changing the wheel and nursing it home on a dodgy unblalnced spare I parked it up and started searching for some new wheels.

Roll on to this sunday I have just picked up a set of 15 inch alloys with decent tyres and get them fitted, so decide to take it out for a spin, on start up it was really slugish and smoking very heavily, round the estate it struggled to get over 30mph and 2500rpm and was leaving a wall of soot everywhere it goes. It was flawless on the trip up the road and back and has never smoked more than a bit on startup.

I have had an airpipe off and there is no oil so I assume the turbo is ok what other things could it be?

Sorry to go on in my first post but thanks in advance for any help

Jamie

[jay140285]

My Bighorn did similar in France a couple of yrs ago - Head was knackared big time.

Check the Rad isnt blocked, and the Turbo but the bighorns do suffer head problems.

If you do some serious searching on overheating bighorn on the ITOC site you might find my posts and all the fault finding I went through before giving up.

Sorry mate.

[firman]

Phew panic averted! Turned out to be the quick warm system stuck on, diconnected the switch and let it run on idle and after it had finished coughing out the soot and black crap it has recovered!