Smokey 90

The exhaust smoke from my 1989 90 2.5 DT is quite disturbing. Once warmed up and driven, all is ok (after 10 mins or so), but it only needs to sit for 20 mins, and on start up its smokey as hell again? Had new oil, fuel and K&N air filters. The git who owned it before me was running it on kerosene. I have a new tank on there now, have with the new filters and several 'fill-ups' of normal legal deisel, I would have thought all traces of this would have gone, or would there be damage to something which is causing the smokey startups?

TIA, Angus

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Fentoozler
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:03:15 -0000, "Fentoozler" scribbled the following nonsense:

helps if we know what colour the smoke is.

General rule of thumb is:

blue = oil = bad, could rings, valves or head gasket gone between piston and oilway, check for crankcase compression.

black = unburnt fuel = not so bad

white (at startup on a diesel from cold) = unburnt fuel, generally occurs on really old diesels on colder days

white (whilst running, and lots of it, with overheating) = head gasket failure, generally involving a breach of a coolant pathway and piston = bad

Reply to
Simon Isaacs

Its grey / dark grey in colour, definately not blue. It passed its MOT emmissions test ok, and, like I said, seems to clear up ofter a few miles. I don't use the vehicle much, once or twice a month.

Angus

Reply to
Fentoozler

kerosene wouldnt cause the smoking , in fact it would make less smoke than with diesel , but to be honest kerosene and white diesel are almost same viscosity nowadays .

however he should have added a lubricant to the kerosene , ie 3 litres veg oil per tank full , in order to keep injector pump lubricated properly .

you cant just run on neat kerosene because it has not got enough lubrication in it to lube the pump properly , hence youd need to add veg oil or 2 stroke oil to it .

i would suspect youre smoking comes from the oil seals in the turbo leaking oil past them .

are you using much engine oil at all, in reality youd only need to top up a good engine once a month and then it might only need a small amount of oil if any .

if you are affected at startup then this could be the turbo oil seals , but could also be the valve stem seals passing oil into the ports and combustion chambers when you switch off engine as well .

the 19J engine is prone to allsorts of problems and especially turbo related and piston related .

they usually blow headgaskets and crack pistons .

you might have an injector pump problem but if its passed the emmissions test then the pump should be ok . i would suggest the turbo area is the problem as that wouldnt show up on a warm engine so much , ie emmissions test .

if you had a bad injector pump or rings or head gasket problem then this would pretty much show up all the time whilst its running , a head gasket blown would probably make you lose youre cooling fluid .

the oil you are seeing is deposited from the turbo either into inlet side or into exhaust pipe after you switch engine off , then when you fire it up again you have to pass the oil thru the engine or burn it off in the exhaust, hence the smoke for a bit .

you will see a puff of smoke out the exhaust when you startup , thats normal and in winter youll get condensation on damp and cold days when starting from cold .

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Reply to
m0bcg

Check the injector pump timing for starters.

Reply to
EMB

Exhaust valve guide seals?

Richard

Reply to
beamendsltd

Smoking on the over-run (even when warm) would provide confirmation.

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Dougal

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