[Vwdiesel] Re: [vanagon] 82 diesel vanagon smokes more uphill - normal?

[t bill]

--- jon.sykes at ps.ge.com wrote:
> My particular patch of suburbia has several hills -
> not that steep, but long
> - the kind that really slows a diesel vanagon down. 
> I can do them in 3rd
> gear, but notice an increase in smoke from the
> exhaust when I do so.  I'm
> wondering if this is 'normal' and whether it would
> be better to change to
> 2nd gear, even though the engine would be rev-ing
> more, perhaps it would not
> be working so hard?

Used to be that the saying was that the only time a
diesel should smoke is when it is wide open or it is
out of tune.  With modern fuel systems today they shud
not smoke at all.

TBill

> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Jon



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