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Subject:re: '82 Diesel Smoke
Date:Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:30:20 +0000

Anybody got quick n' easy way to test for a bad injector
on an '82 Oil Burner?  On a cold start Jake (The Oil
Burner) lets out a large cloud of blue smoke and runs
rough.  After running a few minutes it clears up and
warm he runs fine.  I suspect a faulty injector,
however, I don't have the special VW tool that Bentley
recommends for testing.

Chris P.

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Try loosening one fuel line at a time at the injector - if you can 
loosen one of them with no difference in the idle, then that injector 
is bad.
Note: You will only need to loosen enough to release the fuel ressure 
- don't loosen too much!

Shawn.

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Shawn Wright, sw@smus.bc.ca
'85 Jetta TD, 341k (Jenni)
'88 Westy, 322k (Kyra)
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