3208n/a engines start up smoke

[Gardner Yeaw]

At 25 degrees you will get a real big cloud of white smoke. You
should see what happens at 14 degrees. Once it warms up it will be
back to normal, but your neighbors will smell of diesel for a few
days.

Gardner
78FC33

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, dru penland
wrote:
>
> Just back from Colorado and experienced this problem. Scarred me a
bit. Glad I was an early starter or I might of had some very angry
neighbors. At 25 degrees when I left, I thought I had really blown
something. Started back up in Carlsbad, at 45 degrees, no smoke.
Ahh, it was a fantastic first winter trip.
>
> Back in South Texas, but wish I was somewhere else.
>
>
>
> bubblerboy64 wrote:
> Jon, Mine is all temperature related. I do not have an
engine
> heater but my bus is stored in a non heated garage which is some
> help. If it is below freezing she smokes like you lit a fire under
> her for a short period of time. I would say a couple minutes.
> Usually by the time the air compressor has come up to pressure so
she
> can be moved the smoke is pretty will down to just a little bit.
If
> the weather is forty degrees she'll start with a pretty good puff
but
> withing a minute or less it smokes very little. Going down the
road
> the only time I notice much smoke is if you are asking her to pull
> hard. Then there is a little bluish smoke. I don't know if this is
> helpful or not and I don't know what is normal. I have to add some
> oil but I also have a drip which might be most of that. I add a
> quart about every 4 or 5 hundred miles.
>
> John Heckman
> central Pa
> 1973 FC 3208 NA
> >
> > I was just curious to find out what other people here that have
the
> old
> > 3208 210 hp engine about how long does it take to get the
exhaust
> smoke
> > down to an acceptable level. I know if I pre-heat my engine
block
> and
> > start it up it will still have enough smoke to make smokey the
bear
> > wake up! But after I run it up to speeds for say 15 minutes than
> the
> > old smokey will just settle in and run just fine. Is there
anyone
> here
> > that has rebuilt there old 210 engines and notice a big
difference
> in
> > their emissions when starting up or it just the nature of the
> beast
> > with two rings to just smoke till everything gets warmed up?
> >
> >
> > Jon
> > Rear Dooor bird! With a plateform!!!!!
> >
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> Dru and Debora
> Corpus Christi, TX
> 1983 FC 35 RB
> Steady Gittin' It!
>