But here goes anyway.

Hi group
Haven't posted in a while sorry
I am readying our 505 diesel for its seasonal use and my wife cringed at the thought of using it because of smoke. The bottom line is if I expect her to use this car this biodiesel season I need to try and resolve the smoke issues. When starting the engine it throws out unholy quantities of white smoke. I always assumed this had to do with the leaking head gasket, which appeared better after a head torque, well at least it was pressurizing the coolant lines any more, h yeah for those who don't remember me, we bought this 505 six years ago for $200 from a used car lot in Las Vegas NM. We've run biodiesel in it every Summer since, well with a few exceptions, it always smoked, white on cold start black on hills, low power always, feels to me like the engine isn't revving freely either.
What I mean it when in neutral if I step on the throttle is slowly increases revolutions. I have it in my shop now and will start testing things to troubleshoot this issue which mark the end of our cute little Peugeot if I can't figure it out.

I will finally break down and buy a diesel compression gauge, I own the factory service manual for the engine, anything else I might need to trouble shoot this?
I sure hope together we can breathe some economical life back into this beautiful car, because we can not afford to replace it, besides that we have pretty good amount of money invested in it now, with new shocks and tires, and the body is flawless considering this car's age.

 

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Next we have the VW Rabbits, an era which didn't last for long.

 

 

 

Is this the smallest diesel engine you ever saw? VW Rabbit.

We got two VW Rabbits at the same time. This one is running and gets an astounding 50-60 MPG! We've only run five gallons of biodiesel through it because we just bought it and the processing season just began.

Amazing that the bodies on these 25 year old Rabbits are in such good shape.

My favorite four banger is a rare 1986 Isuzu Trooper turbo diesel.

It ain't much to look at and leaves a lot to be desired areodynamically, but this is a very reliable truck and it had a huge box.

Yeah baby I love a truck full of tools! The bumper sticker reads, "I Love the Smell of Biodiesel in the Morning!"

 

 

1986 Isuzu Trooper decided to spew a couple of quarts of oil a week ago, probably through the lame vacuum pump alternator device. Problem is the turbo is now making a racket, I replaced or better described as a re-swap of the turbo that was originally in there from one of the other Troopers I have, sigh. Thjat was about two months ago, I should have fixed the oil leak then but I have too  many other projects happening right now, and besides that the only thing I use my Trooper for is wireless Internet installations, and the economy is so bad that I haven't had the hours to make up a decent work week in months, alas no money.

I parked the Trooper, and will pull the turbo, again, big sigh, and see about rebuilding it. The first turbo has a busted shaft, so it isn't fixable, but this one maybe. I am tempted to go with another vehicle, as ever since the first turbo blew big time, the engine is really gutless.  I am looking at a Cummings diesel lustfully

Whether it will work in my Trooper or I have to change to a dodge body I haven't decided yet.
This means I may be interested in selling off my two Trooper diesel vehicles, I have no idea what they are worth, both need engine work now, one has a very clean body.