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Lee Tho

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I am trying to help a friends widow start a ford 961 so she can sell it. It has a new starter,battery,glow plugs but it will not start on diesel unless you pull it off .It does not like starting fluid the least little bit you spray in it will make it lock up and I am afraid it is going to break something.i turns over good with starter but will not try to start .any ideas on where to start at now?
 
Engine spinning without starting when it pull starts fine is either low compression or not enough cranking amps getting to the starter.

Have you checked to make sure that the cables are good and all connections are clean, bright & tight, and that the cables are of a large enough gauge?
 

Have you bled the fuel system? If it is not making white smoke when cranking it is not getting fuel.
 
If the starter spins the engine good/fast but it will not crank, and it cranks quick and easy with a short pull it sounds like the injector pump head is worn, in which case the
pump needs rebuilt including a new pump head.

Jim
 


do all you good ole boys down south talk funny? Up here, when a crankshaft rotates other than under the power of the engine's combustion, it is cranking or being towed. When the crankshaft rotates under the power of its own engine, it is no longer cranking . . . it is running.
 
(quoted from post at 19:30:33 07/12/18)
Have you bled the fuel system? If it is not making white smoke when cranking it is not getting fuel.
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Once he's pull started it and it has run for a while it shouldn't need any more bleeding.
 
You might try advancing the timing a tad CCW, not with engine running though. You need a good battery first thing. At least 800 amps but 1000 amp is better.
 
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