From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-krusty-motorsports.com Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #9 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Monday, August 10 1998 Volume 01 : Number 009 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: smoke on the freeway... RE: smoke on the freeway... Re: smoke on the freeway... RE: smoke on the freeway... administrivia: server downtime Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:09:32 -0700 From: john Subject: smoke on the freeway... the other day I went the freeway to work and opened fritz up on the boeing freeway... clear day, smooth road. At about 85 or so I noticed that there was a puff of smoke, a "good" kind of diesel smoke, kind of light tan/brown, and this after a kind of "miss". fritz was still climbing after the needle pegged. sure drove nice. But I'm trying to figure out what the heck that was, I mean these things don't carbon up like a gas engine... it was just one big healthy puff too. I was watching for heavy black smoke, which of course there wasn't any. maybe I need to check the injectors - still haven't looked for the vacuum pump... :) the other thing i've noticed since having his valves adjusted is he starts a bit harder and has blue smoke after starting. with other diesels this usually indicated a timing problem, haven't had time to call the shop to see if they messed with the timing at all... if they did they may be off one notch... he's running good and seems to be getting a bit better mileage after the valve adjustment and a switch to amsoil synthetic atf. the stupid radio is still "fritzing" out. argghhh. I need to check to see if the memory and the power leads were switched as one suggested. later, john --------------------------------------------------------------- john-at-virtual-cafe.com http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john/ Snohomish, Washington USA - where jeeps don't rust, they mold... - ------------------------------------------------------------------ jesus - don't leave life without him... - ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 11:54:33 -0400 From: "Jeff/Laura Domogala" Subject: RE: smoke on the freeway... Jon Wrote: > the other thing I've noticed since having his valves adjusted is he starts > a bit harder and has blue smoke after starting. Hmmm... Blue smoke = burning engine oil... If your valves were mis-adjusted and somehow the compression is lower (due to vales being opened too long), engine oil will produce that blue smoke. Under normal circumstances you never would see the blue smoke in a Diesel because engine oil burns so clean under the 22:1 compression. But once the compression starts to fade away, the blue smoke will start to appear. That would explain why you only see it when starting the car. The compression is not at a full level when first starting. It levels out as the engine cylinders start to warm up. Jeff Jeff/Laura/Ashley Domogala Windham, New Hampshire mailto:domogala-at-bit-net.com http://www.bit-net.com/~domogala ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 16:31:46 GMT From: rafbeas-at-mindspring.com (R Beasley) Subject: Re: smoke on the freeway... On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:09:32 -0700, you wrote: John,=20 >. I was watching for heavy black smoke, I don't know about smoke - but my husband says a good dose of black smoke will make people back off so you can merge (or keep them from tailgating. ;-) >the stupid radio is still "fritzing" out. argghhh. =20 The only trouble I've had with my radio is that after it gets warmed up, it eats tapes.=20 My husband's car (the '85) which had been leased and had all the records with it -- it showed that it consistently had problems with the radio from day one. It was always back in the shop to have the radio fixed. And they never did get it fixed AFAIK. He took out the car phone circuits but that didn't help particularly. Eventually, by trial and error, he discovered that if he always turned the radio off before he turned off the ignition, that everything worked ok. Works for us. grandma Rosalie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:34:02 -0700 From: "Meister, John" Subject: RE: smoke on the freeway... I've tried turning the radio off before shutting down, leaving the tape in, leaving the radio on, etc... doesn't help. The stupid thing comes on at full volume, dumps the memory and makes me want to rip it out of the dash and dissect it... Soon as I have time to go shopping for an aftermarket radio... :) john meister sr CAD sys admin, Intermec meister-at-intermec.com (425) 356.1663 http://www.intermec.com ( http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john john-at-virtual-cafe.com ) > ---------- > From: rafbeas-at-mindspring.com[SMTP:rafbeas-at-mindspring.com] > Reply To: gmbeasley-at-mindspring.com > Sent: Friday, August 07, 1998 9:31 AM > To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net > Subject: Re: smoke on the freeway... > > On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 08:09:32 -0700, you wrote: > John, > >. I was watching for heavy black smoke, > > I don't know about smoke - but my husband says a good dose of > black smoke will make people back off so you can merge (or keep > them from tailgating. ;-) > > >the stupid radio is still "fritzing" out. argghhh. > > The only trouble I've had with my radio is that after it gets > warmed up, it eats tapes. > > My husband's car (the '85) which had been leased and had all the > records with it -- it showed that it consistently had problems > with the radio from day one. It was always back in the shop to > have the radio fixed. And they never did get it fixed AFAIK. He > took out the car phone circuits but that didn't help > particularly. Eventually, by trial and error, he discovered that > if he always turned the radio off before he turned off the > ignition, that everything worked ok. Works for us. > > grandma Rosalie > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:22:36 -0400 From: Richard Welty Subject: administrivia: server downtime the server was out of comission briefly this morning. the 7G maxtor disk i bought about 9 months back seems to be a bit shaky. given my recent experience (every western digital drive i've ever bought - 4 of them over the past 5 years - is still running in some system i own, while the one maxtor i bought after i heard they'd improved a lot is flakey) -- i think i'm going to go buy a big honking WD disk drive and start drifting critical files over. there may be some mailing list downtime as i do this, as it's easier to migrate server files from one partition to another when the lists are offline. i'd rather be running a DTP scsi controller with seagate drives, but that's financially out of the picture right now. now to find a good deal on a 7+G western digital disk drive... cheers, richard ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #9 *******************************