ALDA, The 603 and Terminology (pics)

[justinperkins]

OK so yes there are a million threads on the ALDA, but I need some really basic help with the name of parts related to the ALDA on the 603 engine. I haven't found anything where people talk about this basic stuff. I have the FSM, but can't find anything in there either. If it's there, maybe somebody could point me to the right location?

I'm basically trying to get my "slow off the line" problem fixed and the first place I'm going for is ALDA adjustment/cleaning. I just looked at Diesel Giant's ALDA Banjo fitting cleaning guide, but of course it didn't help me since it was on a 617, but still, I need something like that for the 603.

I'm not going to remove the ALDA, at least not just yet. I first would like to make sure all the ALDA related stuff is working properly, then adjust it (if I need to), then if that still doesn't make me happy I will permanently remove the ALDA.

So with all that in mind, I took some pics of ALDA related components on my engine, spent some time highlighting the stuff I have questions about and was hoping I could learn something. Without further ado, the pictures...

Showing the ALDA, and related lines. I have oil (or something) in these lines, should I?


What is this contraption that the line from the intake and one of the two lines going to the ALDA connect to?


One of the lines from the ALDA leads to this mess of stuff, what is this stuff?


Thanks so much.