White Smoke

Jamie Tyldesley · Jul 16, 2019

Hey All,

My ‘81 Series diesel produces white smoke on idle until warm (normally takes around 10/15 mins) and when on the throttle. It smells of diesel so not steam. Any ideas for what to do to helps this would be appreciated.

Jamie

jamesmartin · Jul 16, 2019

timing

Colthebrummie · Jul 16, 2019

Sounds like the pump timing is a bit out.

Col

Colthebrummie · Jul 16, 2019

James beat me to it.

Col

suburban · Jul 16, 2019

used to be a good write up on a site called seriesdiesellandrover.com which went into the types of smoke and how to adjust pump timing etc, seems to have vanished now though

wish I had saved it

Extreedoc · Jul 16, 2019

Advance the pump timing, just a tiny bit is all it will need. Too much and it will knock.

Bobsticle · Jul 16, 2019

White smoke is unburnt fuel. Thats why it smells of such.

First thing to do is set your tappets then adjust the fuel pump by rotating it a mm at a time. If its adjusted as far as it will go then it might be the timing chain thats old and stretched.

nickjaxe · Jul 22, 2019

You sure its white and not light blue?

rob1miles · Jul 23, 2019

May be worth running some injector cleaner through it too. The fuel flow is very low on idle.

nickjaxe · Jul 24, 2019

White=unburn fuel....how is it on the road?

Advanced pump timing black...retarded blue.

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