Water in Engine

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which e bay special pp2000 did you plum for, you mentioned lexia??  do members rate this particular bit of kit, and how easy is it for you to use, would respect feed back as bank account will now allow me to buy pp2000 at last.

stick with trying to get the engine running, compression test a good idea as well as hand cranking for "feel".

if injectors are out,  test cylinder set to tdc, compare "probe depth" cylinder to cylinder. you should be able to chalk mark tdc/bdc ( which will be tdc on next cylinder ) low low low tech stroke measurement.  any marked difference?? cyl to cyl??

i am assuming that a probe can be insert down to touch a stationery piston via the inj hole??

PP2000, I bought this one ...... obdfamily

I can recommend that one as the ebay experience has been good.
Carefully read their ebay blog and understand what they are saying. This Lexia they are selling is NOT fully chipped. The fully chipped board is £85. This Lexia seems to work ok. The software seems up to date, version wise.

I think I've got this right ... the Lexia3 kit contains the multiplexer hardware unit (evolution drivers) that connects to the car ECU and delivers data back to your PC via the usb port. The software you install on the PC is Lexia, DiagBox and PP2000. The software is ancient, but easy enough to understand.

Their installation instructions are shite, and you have to mess around and scratch your head a bit, but I got there in the end, with a bit of persistence.

I had an old XP laptop lying around. I wiped the drive and reinstalled Windows, so I was installing to a clean machine. 

I installed DiagBox first, and PP2000 after that. All the unlocking codes work fine.  I think the software and data files are dated around 2010, so it is fairly new and covers the 306 and more modern cars (308 etc).

I pretty sure all this cheap pp2000 software and hardware on ebay is pirated, and you are entering 'cracked' codes. You have to run KeyGen, which generates the unlocking codes that the software requires. As I say, it all works good.

I had a bit of trouble installing DiagBox and it would not accept the code, but that was because I had not installed the drivers for the Network card on the PC. The obdfamily guy was happy to help and quickly got me through it via a simple email.

If you get Teamviewer on your laptop, the obdfamily guy is happy to take control and do the install for you. They seem to be decent people and I don't think they would be out to rip anything off your machine when they connect, so don't worry about that. 
They have got some negative feedback, but you always see that.

Once the software was installed I played about with it in the lounge, just to get familiar with it. 
I then took the laptop to the car, plugged the Lexia Main Unit usb cable into the laptop and then plugged the Lexia Main Unit comms cable into odb port near the fuse box. I run the Diagbox software, which ran PP2000, which communicated with the ECU with no problems.
One cool feature was the ability to test some of the sensors, relays, and other equipment. You can choose to, say, test the rad fans. It then sends a signal and turns on the fans. Neat.

I can't get a compression test done yet. I rang 2 local mobile repair guys and neither had a Diesel compression tester!
Someone else mentioned getting a 'stick' on the cylinders and measuring the lift to detect a bent rod. I might be able to rig something up to do that, but I probably will have to be more than millimetre accurate in order to detect differences. I was even thinking of getting each cyclinder at tdc and measuring the amount of liquid I could pour into each one

Its going to be slow on this as I'm busy with work at the moment.

Steve

chopsticks are good..  wooden or plastic ones. , can be done in any position as long as the piston is in the same position for all of them (ie TDC). I would go for the TDC on the compression stroke (both valves closed) as this is easiest to see when it is from cam position etc.