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Devils Advocate
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 Re: Hot smell on hills When you're horsing the engine up a hill, is there any hint of the revs going up without a corresponding increase in road speed - ie: clutch slip? That makes a bit of a stink, I understand - an acrid, musty pooey smell...
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| July 21st, 2010, 9:28 am |
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Jono
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Re: Hot smell on hills Devils Advocate wrote: When you're horsing the engine up a hill, is there any hint of the revs going up without a corresponding increase in road speed - ie: clutch slip? That makes a bit of a stink, I understand - an acrid, musty pooey smell... Thanks for the suggestion, but nope. It doesn't smell like a slipping clutch either. It does smell like metal getting hot.
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| July 21st, 2010, 9:29 am |
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J-dub
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Re: Hot smell on hills over heating slightly? maybe something metal on part of the engine, when at a certain angle, fi that makes sense
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| July 21st, 2010, 11:42 pm |
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twofifty AZU
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Re: Hot smell on hills Enough oil in the gearbox, engine oil cooler nice and clean?
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| July 21st, 2010, 11:59 pm |
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J-dub
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Re: Hot smell on hills spilt oil from oil change running down engine to hot part as a result of the change of angle of the car? wild one!
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1993 Toyota Hilux Surf 3000cc runs on Bio Diesel
2004 Toyota Landcruiser Amazon 4200cc runs on Bio Diesel
1998 Daihatsu Hijet 1300cc
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| July 22nd, 2010, 12:07 am |
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Sean
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Re: Hot smell on hills could just be the smell of a hot engine  something that modern motorists have very little experience of in their climate controlled hermetically sealed box
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ken
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Re: Hot smell on hills Jono,
when you mention going 'slowly' up hills, would that be at around 35mph in 3rd or 50mph in 4th, with wide open throttle?
Those speeds correspond to the engine's peak torque, so would produce higher instantaneous cylinder pressures than at any other point in the usable rev range.
_If_ the seals between the barrels and heads had been compromised at any time in the engine's history, then that's when there'd be most tendency for the joints to start leaking again, even if only slightly...
The method of checking would be to block off the heater intake stubs completely (making sure that the heat escape flaps and tubes were set correctly), then try a few hills under the conditions mentioned earlier.
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| July 22nd, 2010, 11:37 am |
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Jono
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Re: Hot smell on hills Sean wrote: could just be the smell of a hot engine something that modern motorists have very little experience of in their climate controlled hermetically sealed box Probably! It's just that it's only just started smelling like this - if it always had done I'd think nothing of it.
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| July 22nd, 2010, 11:38 am |
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