[Vwdiesel] 1992 Jetta turbo diesel air filter box.

[mikitka]

I do oil analysis on my vehicles. I use Blackstone Laboratories and it isn't
cheap. Cost me $40 a sample.  Here is my latest one on the 91 Jetta TD.

http://tinyurl.com/y4zb6c

 

Nick

 

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From: rumple stiltskin [mailto:stiltskin1969 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:07 PM
To: mikitka
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] 1992 Jetta turbo diesel air filter box.

 

oil analysis ?????? tell me more, please...are there cheap test strips that
do the same thing 

 

what is your procedure, please?

 

mike 

mikitka <mikitka at earthlink.net> wrote:

I had a Purolator air filter in before I changed it out this time to a Car
Quest AKA Wix air filter. They had to have it shipped in from South
Carolina, the main Car Quest warehouse in Raleigh NC didn't have it. I'm
going to see how this one works out on my oil analysis and if it does ok
then I will keep with it. If not then I will get a Mann or Mahle from
Autohauze.
Nick 


Wow, I never did get the outcome of that. That is
really crazy that a 10K old air filter could do that
in a non-desert setting.

Good find, was it a different kind of filter then you
normally use or had used? I hope it was not a Mann

Bryan
--- mikitka wrote:

> Yes, my air box is for a gas version, it takes the
> gas version filter. What
> I find interesting is that I can find a diesel
> filter at the local parts
> store but not the gas version. You would think it
> would be the other way
> around.
> Also on a side note, my 91 TD jetta was starting
> it's usual issue of when I
> pushed in the clutch the engine would go way down
> below idle and then come
> back up to idle or just a little below which we all
> know makes the entire
> vehicle shake from the lower engine speed. This was
> happening all the time.
> Then once I put in a new air filter, even though the
> old one was only in for
> 10k miles and looked ok the idle issue went away and
> it runs fine now. I
> just thought it was interesting to see that an air
> filter can cause such an
> issue. It really was getting annoying. I guess I
> have a good gage as to when
> the air filter needs changed as well as to just
> change it out every 10k
> miles. I don't live in a dusty dirty environment
> either.
> 
> I have the flapper valve that opens up to draw warm
> air from back around the
> turbo and then cool air from the grill. Since I
> broke the tip of the one
> vacuum line off the air box and never fixed it mine
> isn't working like it
> should. Not that I really need it since my engine
> warms up so fast anyway.
> :)
> Nick




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