12-10-2012, 04:04 PM
(11-10-2012, 12:54 PM)Bananalad Wrote: Your valves have probably tightened, rocker cover off get the feeler gauges out and check clearences.. Im in the middle of this problem at the moment
Just to add my compression was down on 3 cylinders with my valves being too tight, got them shimmed and the car ran a bit better but it still was hunting and white smoke etc, compression still the same though..
So have you solved your issue yet? If the valve clearances only made a slight difference then there must be a main cause with the valve clearances just being a secondary.
(12-10-2012, 02:16 PM)CJ_Derv Wrote: Mine did something similar in the balze running veg was a fucker to get goin in morning especially this time of year when its getting cold, when did you last change the fuel filter i no its nothing major like previous answers but this fixed my problem as the pump was struggling to drag fuel through, also check the pickup in tank.
May be a long shot tbh but if all timing holes line up cant think of anything else, im unsure what the valve clearances would need to be but dont think would make much of a difference on these things tbf but i may be wrong
try running on derv for a couple of days see if it makes a difference
also drain any water out of filter Ginge told me to do this other week and has 90% solved white smoke on starup
Hmm, yeah there's a few things to try there. I haven't changed the fuel filter for a couple of years but I haven't done a lot of mileage either and plenty of fuel still seems to be getting through and I have run the pump on fuel straight from the bottle which resulted in it still idling erratically. Question: When you drain the water how do you do it? If I open the screw at the bottom of the fuel filter housing, it just seems to piss fuel out, theres no water in there.
And would a blocked fuel filter cause smoke? I'm tryna figure out if the missfire and smoke are part of the same problem or a different one. Also I tried the running on derv thing, sometimes it seems like the smoke is actually worse on derv than on vegy.
(12-10-2012, 02:22 PM)Dave Wrote: Your LDA is getting stuck down, so when it does pop up you loose all fuelling/stalls all over the shop, or your anti-stall spring is either missing/not set correctly.
How could I stop that from happening? Would it be okay to put grease on the pin? Regarding the anti stall spring, I am sure that is on and functioning correctly, except there is no way to tell once the lid is back on. A stuck LDA wouldn't cause smoke though or would it? That does add up though, because it seems to have no power lower down, but that could be because it has been grinded.