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Glad to hear you got it worked out! Despite me.

Thanks, Rustystud and Chief. My reason for asking is that I have a small diesel (MV, but not a CUCV) that sounds pretty terrible, and smokes quite a bit. Okay, a lot. It sounds like badly adjusted valves, but based on what I've read it could very well be the injectors making the noise. With...

It's not my intention to stir up a hornets nest here, but I'm curious if anyone has had even remotely similar results from using any of the many "magic elixirs" that supposedly cleans out injectors. And if so, which one.

I stand corrected. Always heard that the larger automatics soaked up more power, and with larger (and sometimes more) parts, it made sense to me. Getting rotating mass up to speed versus keeping it in motion are obviously two different things.

Excellent point on the torque converter, which I thought about after posting last night. A mismatched converter can screw up the performance of an otherwise good setup. But that transmissions don't suck power I disagree with. I think we can agree on that there's a noticeable difference between...

Big trannies such as a 4L80E sucks more power than do smaller ones. I'm surprised that you went with a 4L80E rather than a 700R4. Wouldn't hold up? Mine did, in a Banks turbo'd M1009 (no, it didn't have the stock 3.08 gears), although it was built to handle upwards of 500 ft.lbs. if memory...