[Vwdiesel] back on topic, problem with a VW diesel engine
gary
gbangs at cfl.rr.com
Wed Feb 15 06:26:17 EST 2006
Tell him the engine is about to die, but you'll be happy to take it off
his hands real cheap!
Honestly, I don't know your friend or trying to belittle him in any way,
but these vehicles deserve to be with people who care.
To spin from a "Mind is a terrible thing to waste", a VW diesel is
terrible thing to waste.
-Gary
S. Shourds wrote:
> LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> When the check valve fitting at the return line, on my 6.2s pump was
>> pluggged, they do the opposite. I'd lose power and engine speed until I
>> was sitting on the side of the road at an idle and then die. Wait a few and
>> it'd start, maybe go a couple hundred feet and die down again. Thought it
>> was a plugged fuel filter. Turns out high pressure in the pump shuts it
>> down so therefore low pressure would crank it up. Sort of the opposite of
>> what you'd expect!
>> Loren
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/13/2006 7:52:38 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>> jhsg at sasktel.net writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> The smoke was
>>> incredible... you could cut it up for cordwood but the thing was, there was
>>> no fuel there to make the smoke with.... it had to do with lack of internal
>>> pump pressure and the timing advance with no pump internal pressure to
>>> control it with.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> OK, so, this came up in a recent conversation with a friend. He's been
> driving down the freeway at 40 mph (super dangerous with Texas
> traffic--really fast, really heavy, really SUV-sized) becuase his rabbit
> truck just won't go any faster. I keep hammering at him to change his
> fuel filter becuase it sounded to me like it was plugged. "IT'S $6!" is
> what I keep yelling into the phone. I asked him if there was any smoke
> and he said, "smoke?......uh...no?" I got the feeling he hadn't looked
> at all, but I suppose he would have noticed if there had been a forest
> fire behind him. I had thought that on a system like VW's, it would
> just quit performing without smoking. Or did I get lost in the bus
> engine dynamics?
>
> If, BTW, anyone has anything outside of the fuel/air filters to
> recommend, let me know. He did mention that it started right after he
> filled up somwhere and put in some kind of additive. It may also have
> something to do with the 1qt/100 mile oil consumption, too.
>
> I need to go seize this guy's truck and leave him a '96 Honda. He's
> going to get himself killed becase he won't work on it to get it running
> well. At least I completely blow up the engine and start over.
>
> -Shalyn
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