09-01-2009, 10:23 AM
|
 |
You talkin’ to me?
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Columbia, MO
Posts: 907
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by zsmith29
Wow.
I woke up this morning to reading many posts that resemble my father after I would come home late after drinking a few beers.
Guys, I want to thank you who gave me the sounds advice and I am going to the car right now to try to fix it. Really, thanks, I think that it might be the vent, hopefully.
I will not address the near aggressive remarks by some of you and you are right, there should be a side of the forum dedicated to WVO related problems and conversions.
Cheers,
Zack Smith
|
Zack,
You will almost always get more positive than negative responses here. But, you should see if from the perspective of all of the people who take the time to write out responses to help someone else. These people are pulling info from their own experience to help out someone they don't even know. All things being equal (i.e. we are all working with the same design in mind), then this would be fine; however, I have seen too many post that go on for pages of possible diagnoses for a problem, only to have the original poster eventually come around to letting everyone know that he/she is running "X" modification (which usually involves WVO). If you modify the original design of the car, then that modification necessarily becomes suspect when the system it involves fails. Are there people here who will flat out ignore your post if they see WVO in it? Yes, but there are others here would be happy to offer advice. By not adding that information up front you are doing your self a disservice for two reasons: 1) you are not likely to get the help you probably need and 2) your thread will get choked up with negative responses once you finally reveal that you are running the single tank WVO system with something strange growing in the tank.
I don't think you personally were trying to be deceitful - but I often wonder about other WVO folks who come in looking for help and just happen to forget that they added a variety of modifications to their car and are operating it on an unapproved fuel. It would sort of be like me asking everyone for their thoughts on why I experience so much wind noise at high speeds, letting a bunch of people offer their thoughts and scratch their heads at my problem, and then eventually get around to telling them that I modified my car by removing the doors because I don’t like having to open and close them every time I want to go somewhere.
Anyway, if you want to run a single-tank WVO system, that is up to you, but let people know so that those who have no experience or disagree with that set up can just move on to the next thread.
Good luck with your problem.
PS. I still think you should make sure your battery isn't on its way out before tearing other things apart.
__________________
'95 E300D ("Tank") - 231,000 miles
'79 240D ("Biscuit") - 197,250 miles (Sold)
'83 240D ("Ding-Ding") - 217,000 miles (Death by deer)
______________________________________
"Back off, man. I’m a scientist” ~ Peter Venkman
Last edited by tankowner; 09-01-2009 at 11:09 AM.
|