Fezzyvan
February 20, 2010, 1:09 pm
My 1997 escort van 75 1.8d is very lumpy on first start up sounding a little as if it is running on 3 cylinders and is also puffing out quite a bit of white smoke, once warm the idle and running is fine with no smoke - any suggestions ??
I have recently changed, the heater plugs, air fuel and oil filters but this was due to poor starting.
jay1981
February 20, 2010, 3:32 pm
White smoke is unburnt fuel. I would start be checking by checking that the glowplugs are getting 12v with a multimeter.
Fezzyvan
February 23, 2010, 12:59 pm
[quote name='jay1981' date='20 February 2010 - 09:42 PM' timestamp='1266701540' post='66037']
White smoke is unburnt fuel. I would start be checking by checking that the glowplugs are getting 12v with a multimeter.
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Checked them and i'm getting 10 - 11v at all of them.
Any other ideas ??