Smoking Volvo

[DKnight]

During the winter I had the local Volvo Dealer from Tollesbury, Sort out my 2003.
One task he recognized was to remove the head decoke, and grind in the valves.
Also he was to replace the injectors. This has made the compression good, but the engine belches a large amount of light grey smoke when running at even a slight throttle.
They have replaced the injectors again, but the problem persists.

The engine has never used any appreciable amount of oil, ( the colour of the smoke is more of a fuel related problem) and the amount of smoke is greater than before they under took this work!!!!!!

Any ideas or information would be appreciated, as I have spent a substainsial amount of money and still have a problem.

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[maxi]

Welcome to the Volvo Club, recognition signal - vast volumes of blue/grey smoke.
Look back through these forums and you will find any number of us who have totally re-built our Volvo engines, at considerable expense, only to retain the smoke problem.

With one toe in the new boat sales industry, I am impressed by the numbers of experienced buyers who will simply not consider a boat if there is a Volvo fitted. Once bitten twice shy.

Volvo themselves are well aware of the problem, but prefer to keep quiet & rake in the cash from parts sales. They call it 'aftercare', others call it criminal.

Don't waste your money on further work, just keep your smoke and tell the world it's Volvo smoke.



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[Weatherlawyer]

If it's coming out the exhaust it is the valves. Get your money back and buy a new head.

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[mldpt]

HI. I have posted a simular posting to this just the other day. I have had the same problem poor starting and smooky exhaust last season prompted me to have the injectors looked at they were serviced £180 and the smoking was reduced considerably, but the starting was just as bad, I took the head off to find the exhaust valves and seats badly burnt, so I had them recut and ground in, this improved the starting but now there was a lot of unburnt fuel in the form of smoke and soot from the backend. I now decided to do the whole job as I should have done at first, Head off flywheel starter, alternater and all bolt on bits all removed now the bottom end was just about light enough for two of us to lift out of the boat a westerly corsair, incidently the boat is 15 years old and the engine has done at least 4000hrs, I had the bores honed new rings fitted and big end shells, all back together now starts first piston up runs better than ever before, much more power reves like a goodun. but still smokes, and mucks up the transom its definetly unburnt fuel. If you go to my posting you will see that there have been some very helpfull Ideas, perhaps they will help. the posting is Volvo engines expert help. let me know how you go on I am going to check my exhaust pipe this week, if that fails I shall have the injectors checked.
good luck Mike.

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[pvb]

What\'s the dealer\'s stance?

Volspec in Tollesbury are, in my experience, helpful and experienced people. What's their stance on the problem? If there's now more smoke than you had before, what's their explanation?

Have you paid them? If so, how about requesting a full refund? If they refuse, you could get an independent assessment of their work, and claim a refund in the Small Claims Court - it's cheap and surprisingly effective.

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