[Vwdiesel] Why so noisy?

[Terry Briggs]

makes sense, it takes what, 1400 psi to break the poppet on an 
injector, that's a lot of snap.
On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Chris Geiser wrote:

> I was at a farm show here in Wisconsin 2-3 years ago and a diesel 
> service
> outfit had a display set up running just a diesel injector pump 
> connected to
> the injectors - I think it was off a 4 cylinder deere engine - with an
> electric motor turning the pump and the injectors pointed into an 
> aquarium.
> The display was set up to show injector spray pattern.
>
> What stood out to me about the display was that almost all of the 
> clattering
> noise that we hear from diesel engines was present from just the 
> injection
> system being turned without any combustion.
>
> Chris
>
>
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