Folks
I've been struggling with a no start condition for a month or two. My
car will only start with a shot of ether. Glow plugs and system are
good. I've been too lazy to adjust the valves but i replaced one
injector 6 weeks ago with an unknown used and it ran better but still
no starying joy.
I had the removed injector tested over Christmas and it had a bad
narrow spray pattern squirt.
I finally located a reasonably priced KIKI injector tester (made in
japan) on craigslist in abeline, texas and talked the seller into
shipping it to georgia. A great investment!!
This weekend we had a rare 2 days of around 70 f highs, so it was the
time to do it.
So i collected a junk set of injectors out of a 240 and added my
spare. Incidentally they popped at 1500 to 16oo lbs. I washed them in
gas and then disassembled them all and then threw everything but the
nozzles into the ultrasonic cleaner. Then i installed new monark
nozzles and reassembled. I fiddled with shims and set them all to pop
at 2050 lbs, usually with only one try. I used a digital caliper on
the shims to figure out what thickness to add or subtract.
I swapped the rebuilt injectors for the ones in the car. Is there some
trick to removing the heat shields. I couldn't get the old ones out,
so i just reused them.
I still don't know if it will start cold, but MAN what an improvement.
I'd say i have 20% more power and acceleration is much more immediate.
The lope in the idle went away and it's just much smoother and it was
pretty smooth even with the goofy injectors.
To keep some required airplane content, i test drove it out to AHN and
talked planes with a member of the us aerobatic team. While i was
there i took a call from my friend jay who is a watch repairman (watch
content).
I'll keep you posted on whether it will cold start. And yes, i've been
running the 1982 300td on WVO for going on 4 or 5 years!! The monarks
are supposed to be better for WVO and they are really made in germany.
I'm sending this to the Peugeot list, too, because i'm sure the
injector improvement will help a peugeot diesel with Bosch injectors,
just are much!
thanks,
xx rick
Rick Hawkins
www.javaphoto.com
www.javacycles.com
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