Gerrard (115bhp JTD) has had a leisurely summer, sitting around not being used very much, while I've been locked into the house for months, as probably a load of people.
When I take the beast out for a spin, I notice that if I boot it (big throttle openings and/or a lot of revs) - just to exercise it, once it's fully warmed up - that it makes more smoke than a paddle steamer.
I don't think that sitting around has especially gummed anything up etc. since it looks like regular black soot, as it still used to produce when I used it daily. It doesn't use any oil and it starts and runs fine.. and mpg in the summer touched 60, so I dunno if there's too much actually wrong with it. I suspect I became used to the Younger Mrs S' petrol engine 500 and just forgot what an old smoker Gerrard is.
Any road up... there's still the annual mortal combat to the death, with Dr Death the MOT man coming up next month. I tend to feed the beast a bottle of Cataclean and run it on Optimax or premium heptane diesel for a couple of fill-ups, just to make sure it's got every chance of escaping the Grim Reaper's clutches.. but what else can I do to reduce the smoke-screen?
When the hose around the turbo/MAF was a bit loose, c/o a split... it used to leave oily residue all over the hose and the radiator fan. A new hose fixed that.. but it showed that there was a lot of oil mist in that pipe. Where does it come from and how much is too much?
Ralf S.
When I take the beast out for a spin, I notice that if I boot it (big throttle openings and/or a lot of revs) - just to exercise it, once it's fully warmed up - that it makes more smoke than a paddle steamer.
I don't think that sitting around has especially gummed anything up etc. since it looks like regular black soot, as it still used to produce when I used it daily. It doesn't use any oil and it starts and runs fine.. and mpg in the summer touched 60, so I dunno if there's too much actually wrong with it. I suspect I became used to the Younger Mrs S' petrol engine 500 and just forgot what an old smoker Gerrard is.
Any road up... there's still the annual mortal combat to the death, with Dr Death the MOT man coming up next month. I tend to feed the beast a bottle of Cataclean and run it on Optimax or premium heptane diesel for a couple of fill-ups, just to make sure it's got every chance of escaping the Grim Reaper's clutches.. but what else can I do to reduce the smoke-screen?
When the hose around the turbo/MAF was a bit loose, c/o a split... it used to leave oily residue all over the hose and the radiator fan. A new hose fixed that.. but it showed that there was a lot of oil mist in that pipe. Where does it come from and how much is too much?
Ralf S.