Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:18:54 +0000
Reply-To: dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET
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From: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject: Re: 1.9L exhaust smoke after sitting for 30 days
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You're absolutuley right and I have seen it happen. I ahve also seen engine lock up from way too much fule being injected. It will take a lot of oil though to lock up the water boxer. Since the engine is already strted and the smoking is the issue, I kept my response simple.
Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: John Rodgers
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:24 am
Subject: Re: 1.9L exhaust smoke after sitting for 30 days
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Dennis,
>
> Sorry to relate everything to airplanes, but that is where my
> mechanicalorigins come from........... for an engine that sits
> at an odd angle for
> a long period of time, would not a hydraulic lock be a
> likelyhood, in
> which case if suspected it would be wise to pull the plugs and
> turn the
> engine over by hand several times to be sure the internals are free,
> re-install the plugs and only then fire it up? Might bend a rod or
> damage the crank otherwise.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GAL Driver.
>
> Dennis Haynes wrote:
> > Is the van parked on a hill or tilted to one side? Oil my be
> puddling in the bottom of the cylinders. Maybe the valve guides
> and letting oil drip down. If it clears and there are no other
> problems or excessive oil consumption, don't worry too much.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Michael Elliott
> > Date: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:00 pm
> > Subject: 1.9L exhaust smoke after sitting for 30 days
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> >
> >> Getting Mellow Yellow ready for a trip to the desert, hopefully
> >> to catch
> >> some spring showers. MW's been sitting for about 30 days
> without being
> >> run. I needed to move it to do some work on the upper ball
> >> joints, and
> >> when I started the engine the hydraulic push rod rattled,
> which is
> >> normal when the engine hasn't been run for a while. What was
> >> unusual was
> >> a fairly amount of smoke (not white water, but gray oil) that
> >> came out
> >> of the exhaust for the first 30 seconds or so.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> >> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> >> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> >> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> >> KG6RCR
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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