Re: [diesel_mercedes] GAH ! (fungus, -again-)

 

could your smoke and high idle be related to an oil leak into the
intake/cylinder head areas?

Henry

On 1/7/2017 8:02 AM, Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
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> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Nate included below]
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> Every time I make a few tankfulls sans any crud in the clear plastic
> intake screen and relax and switch to Diesel Kleen's excellent Cetane
> booster, I discover fungus after a few tank fulls more .
>
> When will it ever stop ?! .
>
> The attached photo was taken this morning, the blob of crud was about 3X
> as dense as it shows, when I teipped it up to take the picture much of
> it slid out of view .
>
> At least the low fuel lamp stopped coming on above the 'R' mark on the
> fuel gauge ~ this led me to think that maybe, just _/MAYBE/_ I'd finally
> turned the corner on this annoying and persistent problem .
>
> Here's the rub : the engine now idles @ 900 RPM's and I can't slow it
> down, the I.P.'s mechanical adjustment screw does nothing .
>
> It's also begun to smoke again, mostly @ hot idle but also sometime when
> I accelerate away from traffic at night I'll see a black fuel cloud as
> the engine picks up speed .
>
> The engine also lopes at idle .
>
> The odometer died in August so I have no idea what my fuel economy is
> currently .
>
> I guess it's time to stop being afraid of killing it and try to install
> and time the spare I.P. I took from a suer clean 1985 year model wreck
> last year .
>
> I hope this comes through, yahoo's having problems this morning, it
> won't populate the address field as it usually does .
>
> -Nate
>
>

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