Series 3 2.25 Diesel white smoke

Pretty much sums the job up, I use a dial gauge cos I have two or three of the buggers.
At this stage it is nice to borrow a proper timing tool to reset the timing pointer, this gives a good starting point.
You can then play with the pump timing 1mm at a time to fine tune the running.
I did all that in with a complete rebuild of my engine, reset the injectors to 130/135 bar. Little or no smoke and pulled like a train.
An electric vacuum pump helps with the smoke so that you can ditch the knackered butterfly set up.

oops think I have ****ed it, went for a sneaky test drive early this morning, first time round the block was fine, second time it sounded really rough and was chucking grey smoke out the back like a battleship making smoke so I scuttled back on to the drive.

started it again and it was normal under tickover

well here is a funny thing, I turned the pump anticlockwise to a bit more than it was before and my s3 is no longer smokin'

so no hard and fast rules for landies again