[Vwdiesel] Injection pump testing for beginners 3----( OLDRabbitsmostly )

[Roger Brown]

TexasTDI wrote:
> 
> "Like I said from 1977 to 1984  thousands of pumps caused Smokey VW's.   It
> was so bad that VW and Bosch refused to honor guarantee --- even under the
> SMOKE law."
> 
> "VW, Bosch and Stanadyne got off the hook by proving that the crappy fuel
> was the cause. IMHO they were absolutely right."
> 
> Wasn't this about the same time California started experimenting with "low
> sulphur" diesel not realizing the fuels lubricity was greatly diminished by
> the desulphurization process?  Which lead to the self-destruction of fuel
> pumps and fuel injectors?

That was in the early '90s.  Got my pump, started leaking like a sieve. 
Supposedly was some sort of class action case, but I never was able to
find out anything about it.

-- 
   Roger