In <list-1258629@skylee.com> "Ron" <rojoha@mediaone.net> said:
>A non list club member (28 k modem)
What is wrong with 28k? I'm usually @ 26k.
> brought his truck (a 1D) to our
>campout this weekend and at medium to low engine speeds has one hell of a
>miss. Starting is long cranking before catching with HUGE quantities of
>white smoke.
White smoke means poor compression caused by bad valves or rings, or
inadequate supply pressure to injector pump. Have you measured this
pressure?
> Pulling away in first sounds like a 2 stroke diesel.
> He got it last August from one of the larger truck vendors.
Why accept when it runs so badly?? Mileage known/unknown?
> It has
>had miss from day one and has gotten worse over time. He pointed out it
>has a rebuilt injector pump with a depot tag marked 12 98. I said
>"Hmmmmm.... you got it in August 2000, the vendor got it a month or so
>before(June '00) , it probably sat in a DRMO yard for a couple of months(
>Feb '00?). Probably sat at the units yard for a couple of a couple of
>months (Sept. '99 ?)when they decided to dump it. Why and when did they
>put a rebuilt (12-98) pump on ?"
> All filters are new and we drained them on Saturday, No joy.
> Anyone got any ideas on what's wrong?
Need to do a compression test. If it is a turbo there may be other things
to look for; my comments were for typical NA diesels.
> Ron
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