the black smoke?

[enes]

on diesels does a lot of black smoke mean unburned fuel?

or is it just a by product of diesel combustion?



yesterday i saw a truck litterarly smoke whole half of the highway on the take off and he hauled a$$ even while he towed 10K + gooseneck. . afcourse it was a CDT . .

 

[TORQUE THIS]

Yup, unburned fuel =

 

[JLEONARD]

Mark,

Were you in MN yesterday?? :-laf :-laf

Jay

 

[TORQUE THIS]

If it was me, it would of been the whole highway, not just half... :-laf

 

[JLEONARD]

If it was me, it would of been the whole highway

You got me on that one.

AND they would have issued severe weather warnings :-laf :-laf

 

[enes]

LOL you guys are funny... we did have a t-storm last night. . or was it the few of you guys doing burnouts



-E

 

[TORQUE THIS]

Nope, the wind was blowing in the wrong direction...

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Black smoke isn't necessarily unburned fuel . . . it's fuel burned with too little oxygen. There was enough heat but not enough air.



Unburned fuel is gray or white, generally too low of combustion temperature, or very poor fuel atomization caused by faulty injectors or air in the fuel system.



Vaughn