Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:22
paul,
I did some thinking and some research on this and other sites about the smoke. the blue smoke at cold start up is normal for older diesels. just the way they get with age. also diesel fuel is very oily. thus when cold the engine doesnt combust as
well as it should and doesnt properly burn off the oil content in the diesel.thus your blue smoke. when the engine heats up burns it all and thus no blue smoke. just black smoke when under load.which is as mentioned before overfuelling.
also if you get heaps of black smoke under load that is injectors etc. do the injectors but the injector pump isnt a "must be done" thing. may be as easy as just adjusting the injector timing and/or the maximum fuel flow screw on the injector pump.wherever that is.
funny you mention the flange nut being loose. i had the same problem. when my rear diff was rebuilt
the nut wasnt tightened properly.wasnt cold chiselled. it worked itself loose. i was getting a small clunking noise when i changed gears.just assumed it was normal noise from the tail shaft.
anyway some 100,000 klms later i happened to mention the noise to another mechanic and he had a noisy around and found the loose nut. around 20,000 odd klms later the diff bearing finally packed it in. the bearing noise was way obvious. being away from
home i didnt get a chance to fix it for another 5000 klms. the bearings were absolutely rooted.BIG TIME. but the troopy kept going. the old troopies are bullet proof. go on for ever.
so anyway dont stress about the loose nut. you may get many thousands of klms out of the old beast yet.
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