K&N/ Black Smoke

[rodthrutheblock]

What a fantastic day!!!!! Sunny with a frost this morning, what a change after all this grey stuff.

Anyway.... I am about to fit the DieselVeg veg kit and thought I would make a bit more space in the engine bay by taking out the Toyota air filter and sticking in a K&N that I had kicking about. I even bothered to put the air sensor thingy in....
Started it up (from cold) and apart from the extra noise (nice turbo woosh though) it smoked (black) like a pig on start up.
Is this the old bus just having a bit of a clear out?
There is a 2ft circle of very black, black sooty, black stuff where I was.
The old Toyota filter was bit dirty, but not the worst I have seen.
Better to keep the proper filter you think?

[The Lang-Shankit Scunner]

I went back to the original air filter, and i also have the dieselveg kit. Its about the best kit out there, but takes an agae to fit it properly.

[rodthrutheblock]

Thanks for that, I am not surprised you went back to original!!
I am just going out to undo what I did this morning...
Interested to hear that you fitted dieselveg too. The kit looks pretty comprehensive, a bit daunting in fact, but it seems I can fit a lot of it without taking the truck off the road first. I just got the tank in the back at the weekend and ran the pipes down to the front inner wing.
Thanks for again your input.