[Vwdiesel] Hillbilly Tuning at 101 ---( and FUN it is )

[Randy Tyler]

  "The Ten Commandments of Diesel Maintenance"
  
1. Thou shalt keep thine engine clean and in adjustment that thy life in its company shall be long and that the owner shall increase thy job longevity.

2. Know thine engine and all its parts and functions, else thou shalt be up some tributary without means of locomotion.

3. Be not wise in thine own conceit. Remember the factory instructions and keep them holy, lest false repairs be thine undoing.

4. Be not loose in thy jaw hinges for no man knoweth all about diesels. The truly wise absorbeth much knowledge and exceedith little, and he who so doeth shall gain repute among his fellows and favors among his superiors.

5. For all things in this life that thou desireth, thou shalt also pay plenty, and for the wisdom of experience, no less. Advice from the multitudes costeth nothing and usually worth as much.

6. In the books though mayest read what to do and when, but only the voice of experience may tell thee why and how, else reading of what and when shall but plague thee with smoke.

7. God maketh the earth rotate endlessly without bearing or oil, but not thy diesel.

8. Curse not thine engine when it turneth not. Curse rather thine own neglect.

9. Steam engines and gas engines may long turn over though sloppy: a diesel not so. With gauges and mic’s be though ever busy.

10. The eternal eye watcheth universal operations, but thou shalt not rely upon it as to thy diesel. Thine own vigilance is the price thou payest for thy job.

   
  Svend
  If you are blowing smoke, you are inefficient.  You are getting losses in the extra air and fuel being pumped without extracting the heat from burning fuel.
   
  Diesels, boilers and gas turbines optimize ways to spray and mix fuel with Oxygen laden air to extract heat for work.  Nozzles and mixing using vortexes is surprisingly similar.  The diesel is set apart because it is intermittent burning while the other two are constant.
   
  Oil fired steam destroyers only smoked for tactical reasons.  If it did not have an economizer in the boiler, you could generate smoke by putting extra fuel.  Purposely incorrect mixture.  With an economizer, special smoke generators.  If such a ship generated smoke from its boilers it was in risk of an uptake explosion and after burning.  The boiler operator would endeavour to prevent this through pride of clear funnel gases.  If the operator was having an off pride day, fear of violence to his backside by the CHIEF was the incentive.
   
   My diesel ship ran with clear funnel gases through its full range.  The fuel was kept clean, the turbo chargers were water-washed, the fuel racks adjusted and not fooled with.  Cylinder temperatures monitered and if one got lazy, the injector was changed.  I had fun.
   
  Randy
   
  

Svend M Kjong <svend at prcn.org> wrote: 
  About Bunny Bondo ---- when she snared me --she was one WILD thing. According to book
she puts out 68 HP at 4500 RPM.----I know what 100 HP looks like and she put out more
than 100 HP at about 6000 RPM.----and smoked like a Navy Destroyer. While I am at
smoke ---how did those Warships make so much smoke ?. ---Like smoke at an airshow ?.

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