[Vwdiesel] rev issues

Nate Wall nwall at opei.org
Wed Nov 20 09:54:22 EST 2002


I've even heard of instances where the governor, or its spring is malfunctioning
can cause idle surge. Wonder if the governor spring got bent during the rebuild.

--Nate

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/19/2002 9:07:52 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> bobs at chemdec.natsci.csulb.edu writes:
>
> > Putting a load on the
> >  engine such as the air conditioning seems to keep the idle speed constant.
> >  Also I notice now that the truck smokes under load where it didn't before,
> >  it seems to have more power, and the mileage is about the same.
> >
> >  Could it be that the fuel delivery screw is not set correctly?
>
>   Most likely it should be right but if your engine is worn much then it may
> not be able to handle all the fuel.  Could be worn injectors, low
> compression,
> etc.  A pump returned from the rebuilder SHOULD be set correctly.  It's a
> simple task though to just back it off a dab at a time until you get rid of a
> good share of the smoke.  You'll have to turn up your idle and that might
> get things back to normal.
>      Loren
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