Am i running rich?
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:30 pm
Evening all,
Ive just put a 7mge 3liter straight 6 out of a Toyota supra into my hilux dual cab. Over Easter i took it up to wood-gate beach, Harvey bay and rainbow beach towing our new camp trailer (weighs about 700kg when loaded) through out the trip the truck averaged around 17liters of fuel per 100km (not bad i thought for towing all that weight around) and drove like a dream on 110 the whole way. I've just noticed while cleaning the truck, the exhaust has a lot of dark black soot built up on the inside! I'm only a novice backyard mechanic but doesn't this mean the motor is running rich? Oil and coolant levels are perfect so that's all i can put it down to! Any suggestions?
Cheers
SASS
Ive just put a 7mge 3liter straight 6 out of a Toyota supra into my hilux dual cab. Over Easter i took it up to wood-gate beach, Harvey bay and rainbow beach towing our new camp trailer (weighs about 700kg when loaded) through out the trip the truck averaged around 17liters of fuel per 100km (not bad i thought for towing all that weight around) and drove like a dream on 110 the whole way. I've just noticed while cleaning the truck, the exhaust has a lot of dark black soot built up on the inside! I'm only a novice backyard mechanic but doesn't this mean the motor is running rich? Oil and coolant levels are perfect so that's all i can put it down to! Any suggestions?
Cheers
SASS