My 97 306 1.9td started running rough and smoking a little on my way home the other day, it was then hard to start and the level of smoke had increased as had the rough running.

A mechanic friend took a look and thought it to be contaminated fuel ( he poured a bit on the floor, chucked a match on it, and it went up instantly) I have definatley only put diesel in it so my only thought would be that the fuel that i put in was dodgy from the pumps - tesco said they have not had any other complaints. ( i had driven for 100 miles since putting in 50 litres before the problems started

we drained the tank and put some fresh diesel in hoping that running it for a while would clean it out, but it hasn't. It is still hard to start, and when it does is rough at idle with lots of white smoke, it also lacks power. the white smoke sometime clears a little, but it is still rough. It also sometime stalls on deceleration.

I have taken off the injectors and had these tested - no problems, I have also put on a clear pipe off the fuel return from the pump and there is no air in the fuel. On taking the intercooler off there is some thick gloopy oil in the air inlet, i guess that this is from the turbo, which hasn't worked since i got it, but don;t think that this would cause this problem?

I presume that it is the injector pump (lucas) which is at fault, but i am not sure. i have found somewhere that will service it for 75 quid, they sugested advancing the timing of the pump to see if that fixes it before bringing it in to them. Is it possible to time the pump without specialist tools?if not are these easy enough to get?

any help greatly appreciated - i'm at a loss....

Ben