Smoke under power, yes. Quite a bit of power though i.e. heavy acceleration.

That reminds me, I will find out what additive was run through it during the service.

Cheers again

Thanks for all the advice guys.

I have a couple of people to approach regarding the problems, hopefully sometime in the next couple of weeks I will have a plan.

Cheers.

So much information!

Cheers for the help. And thanks for the link. I will update and how I get on.

Thanks for the replies. It's a comfort to have such a well of knowledge to tap in on. It's 285 across the board I decided to do the compression when I noticed black smoke when pushing the revs up. As far as I can remember it didn't do this a few weeks ago. It runs without smoke on steady ...

Hi there, I'm desperately seeking some second opinions. Over the past few months I've been working on getting rid of the little niggly things on my 94 2800 diesel Pajero. All in all it was going well until I got a compression test done. It came out 285 instead of the desired 400. I'm told this is ...