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Berlingo XUD9TE project (Y THO?)


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Good buy. I had one of these, sold it to a chap I work with, he is steadily crashing it into everything he can find. It looks rough as fuck now.

I put new doors on it, pulled the wing straight and rotary polished it when I had it.

I bypassed the original filter arrangements and fitted a modified XUD one I had in the shed and added a priming grenade.

And turned up the fuel a bit. Made better progress up hill.

 

Does the XUD filter housing fit without modifications? I'm not keen on them either but the DW8 one looks mega-shit. Interested re: fuelling adjustments. Did you adjust it much?

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I went just over a quarter turn on mine. I followed the van up hill the other day and it was probably a bit too much, judging by the haze of smoke it put out. Wasn't terrible but could be less.

I don't think the XUD filter housing will fit without mods. I just happened to have one spare in the shed and the original one on the van was shagged and letting in loads of air and was the reason I got the van cheap.

I'll take some pics when I see it next, maybe, if I remember.

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You can fit multispace seats in the van with medium fabrication. I did this on my old one but I don't think i have any pics.

 

http://www.rms1.co.uk/berlingo/convert.htm

 

I reckon a multispace is all the car a person could ever need, only slight annoyance is I would make the rear seats quick release, they're not designed to be removed so when I've taken them out to get a motorbike in or something it takes a few mins to undo the bolts.

 

Cleon-Fonte, definitely look for a HDi if possible, much much better to drive and no worse on fuel, unless you absolutely must use veg.

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The fuel lines need to be replaced or spliced, all hard plastic I think. Would really like a heated fuel filter, both the standard DW8 and XUD provide heat but they are buggers for sealing properly.

A Multispace would be great, ideally that's what I'd like.

Just take a feed off the coolant circuit and wrap a pipe round a BMW fuel filter = insta heetongs

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I'm late to the party but other than the pump being turned back and electronic advance the main difference with the DW8 over the XUD is that it uses the same combustion pre-chamber design as the TUD5 engine which should improve emissions without hurting economy or powah. I have often wondered whether fitting the IP and injectors from a 'proper' XUD engine would restore the lost performance and economy. I had thought of trying it with the fathers Berlingo but it shat it's bottom end before I had the chance and now runs an XUD9TE...

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Uprate the brakes before increasing engine power. C15 brakes were never great even when new, ime.

 

Forgot, it's a Blingo! The brakes are usually pretty good.

 

The brakes are excellent compared to a Caddy with no brake servo which had crap brakes to begin with. They seem almost hydropneumatic snappy, takes some getting used to.

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Good to have a big shed at work to tinker with my little shed. The accelerator cable's been adjusted, a piece of piss and it pulls and idles a bit better. It's running cool so a new thermostat from ECP was picked up today, but one of the thermostat bolt heads is chewed up and roughly 9.5mm.

Brimmed the tank and roughly calculated MPG, it could be as low as 32MPG which is shit frankly. Hopefully it improves with a new thermostat.

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Mine I thought was but turns out they all are like that! Cav, I did like the flexibility of the turbo xud but the dw8 has a bit of torque for a na diesel. World's better than the escort. But it will get an xud if the engine went tits up.

 

To be honest, I'd struggle to think of a worse diesel engine in the world than that shitty old Ford 1.8 effort. Oh, except the 4 cylinder Iveco engine which is just the worst engine in the world of any type.

 

 

Len, yours looks shit loads tidier than mine.

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