

| Subject: | Re: Diesel is noisy |
| From: | Jim Felder |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:34:05 -0500 |
Sounds perfect to me. Does it leak or burn? If it's a vanagon, you'll need that snout that goes up into the DS air vent. Without it, you're hearing the inside of the engine when you run it... there's no throttle plate on the diesel to hold anything back. Expect a bit of trumpeting wide open, think of a charging male mole in rut. You can expect some piston slap when cold and occasionally at idle when hot. If it doesn't leak, smoke or overheat, you'll get used to the noise. Since there's no distributor timing nor any tuneup parts, you are pretty much stuck checking oil pressure, water temp, cylinder pressure and injector pattern. That's really it, other than injector pump timing. But if it isn't smoking and it runs OK, there's really no reason to check that. Jim On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Zoltan wrote: > I have a diesel and it is extra laud, like it has an engine trouble. > Zoltan >
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