[Vwdiesel] Any way to peek into the engine cylinders?

[Sandy Cameron]

At 09:50 AM 10/11/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>
>A couple links were posted showing the possibility of
>all sorts of damage happening when the veg oil is
>simply mixed with diesel fuel.  
>
>One of the sites discusses some symptoms, such as more
>smoking, stinky exhaust (smelling like burnt oil
>rather than the nice smell often associated with using
>veg oil), the crankcase filling up with oil from
>unburned veg oil making its way in, etc.
>
>While I recognize valid points, I tend to be a little
>skeptical of those sites because they are all trying
>to sell me a kit of some sort.

It's a marketeer's world. (sp. intentional)

My experience:  YMMV
Do not use 50% for short trip local driving, It seems to coke up the injectors.
If so, a full tank of dino and an hour or 2 road trip seems to clean it out. 

I had to change goldie's head gasket a year ago, and there were NO hard
carbon deposits in the engine. Just soft fluffy carbon that wiped off with a
rag. The engine looked unusually clean inside, more so that some dino-only
engines I have opened.
>
>My percieved evidence in my own use is that overall
>smoke is very similar (though maybe a little more at
>startup if the engine has cooled) could be a little
>less once engine is warmed.  Exhaust smells, frankly,
>very nice-makes me hungry sometimes and I've not seen
>any signs of the crankcase filling with veg oil.

I notice she smells best at idle, gets a bit burnt smell at full load.
(I've fixed the hole in the trunk)
I think your observations are right on.

I make a frequent trip to my camp, about 80 miles, hour and a half, and
where I can, stay just on the high side of the speed limit. She just sings,
and when we get there, she's idling smoother than when we left.

My 1.9 (94) TD starts instantly runs very smooth, doesn't smoke, smells
nice, and, if anything, runs better on the mix than dino...And the mix
doesn't make my pump leak  like ULSD !

Goldie smokes just detectably after a COLD start, disapears in a few minutes.
Only time I can get her to smoke on the road, is to wind her up for max
boost, when she reams the carbon out of the turbo and exhaust pipe in one
gigantic bloom.

(I really dislike tailgaters)

Sandy