[Vwdiesel] Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Black smoke - low power

[maded]

Jim,

Maybe an obvious question:  Do you have full travel on the throttle?  At
full throttle the mixture setting may be high if it is a Vanagon pump.  Mine
was turned way up by PO in an attempt to get more power (my guess).


Ed Lowe, Seattle
82 Westy diesel upgrading to 1.9td
85 Golf diesel
92 Cabrio
97 Passat Tdi

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>From: Jim Arnott <jrasite at eoni.com>
>To: Diesels <Audi-VW-Diesels at yahoogroups.com>, vwdiesel <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
>Subject: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Black smoke - low power
>Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2002, 16:04
>

>Here's the latest:
>
>Finally took the '82 wabbit powered Westy for a 20 mile highway trip.
>45mph MAX.  Lots of black smoke. Injection pump is timed at .85mm, new
>air cleaner, fresh fuel. The one "thing wrong" that I know of at this
>point is I have the wrong glow plug relay.  I have a fast-glow system
>and a slow-glow relay. Beyond that, all is correct AFAIK.
>
>What do I do now? Perhaps the Rabbit motor requires a different timing?
>
>(For those on the vwdiesel list, allow me to introduce myself and
>vehicle:  I'm Jim Arnott, list administrator of the WetWesties list.
>I've been involved with VWs for the past 30 years and currently own '82
>and '83.5 Vanagons and a '77 ASI Riviera. I recently acquired an '82
>Diesel Westy that had been sitting for a while.  This acquisition is my
>first foray into the oil burning world other than keeping a Bobcat
>running in 30 below weather.
>
>The Westy had been re-engined with a Rabbit motor but never run
>following the install. Mark Drillock on the yahoogroups Diesel list was
>kind enough to supply the correct Vanagon injection pump to replace the
>Rabbit one that wouldn't clear the engine cover. He also took the time
>and trouble to hold my hand (even though we're a thousand mile distant
>from each other) through the pump swap. So, it runs.  Starts right up.
>Idles smoothly with little smoke.  And that brings us to the above
>question.)
>
>Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>
>Jim
>
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