[Vwdiesel] back on topic, problem with a VW diesel engine

[gary]

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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