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Subject:re: '82 Diesel Smoke
From:Miller - James W.
Date:Sun, 3 Mar 1996 17:39:33 -0500 (EST)

Hey Duds,

I thought the burp of smoke was normal when doing a cold start?  If it 
clears up, what's the harm?  Just wondering!

An ignorant non mechanic

On Sun, 3 Mar 1996 sw@smus.bc.ca wrote:

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