Date:         Sun, 17 May 2009 20:07:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Fw: Re: Do I just cut the wire from the O2 sensor?
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--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Do I just cut the wire from the O2 sensor?
To: "Mike Collum" <collum@myfairpoint.net>
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 8:04 PM







 
I guess you could think that but not always. I've started a few engines that I had cranked a lot before they start-whitish-blue smoke, not black. 
  When I was a kid I dug a hole in the ground. 
In my quest for fire, I built a fire in the bottom. Then I put a metal bowl of old motor oil on the flames and got it boiling. I tossed all kinds of things in the oil, weeds, bugs, even a slug or two. 
The fire went out . The oil was still boiling.
Then I did a really dumb thing: I poured a small amount of gasoline in the oil. 
 
The gas turned into a whitish, blue smoke (vapor) and filled the hole. 
Then I had the brilliant idea to toss in a lit match . Ka-boom!!!!!!!! The explosion sent me flying backwards a couple feet on my rear. 
So, this vapor or smoke Bernie is experiencing could be from excessive cranking , or rings or valves letting oil past. 
But I would not think that burning oil would be the cause of the stalling. Low compression in one cylinder or more? Loose wire?
 
Robert
1982 Westfalia
 
 
 
 


--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Mike Collum <collum@myfairpoint.net> wrote:


From: Mike Collum <collum@myfairpoint.net>
Subject: Re: Do I just cut the wire from the O2 sensor?
To: "Robert Keezer" <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 4:23 PM


Robert Keezer wrote:
Blue smoke is unburnt fuel


Hmmmmm ... I would think that unburnt fuel would cause black smoke and oil burning causes blue smoke.

Mike