You may have seen my previous posts about this little diesel.
I had the head off and replaced the head gasket.
Head was cleaned, pressure tested and checked for
warps/cracks by the machine shop.
Timing gears were off to replace freeze plugs behind them.
I got it put back together, set the timing as the book said,
which is adjusting the pump gear until fluid just starts pumping
out of the #1 line at 16* BTDC.
It wouldn't start. Just an occasional fire even with glow plugs.
It is in my shop where it is 60 degrees, so not cold.
I adjusted the timing a bit and now, with about 15 seconds of
running the glow plugs and 6 to 10 revolutions of the engine it
cranks right up.
Problem is it hammers badly.
It had a "diesel knock" at idle before I tore it down, but nothing
like this. It is and extremely loud, deep sounding knock. Not like
a valve train rattle, but I can't tell where its coming from.
There is 65-70 psi of oil pressure registering on the gauge and
I made sure I had pressure before I ever tried to start it.
I didn't use any ether.
What do you think? Timing too far off? Injector plugged?
I have a hard time believing its a rod, since it didn't do this
before and nothing in the lower end was disassembled.
I had the head off and replaced the head gasket.
Head was cleaned, pressure tested and checked for
warps/cracks by the machine shop.
Timing gears were off to replace freeze plugs behind them.
I got it put back together, set the timing as the book said,
which is adjusting the pump gear until fluid just starts pumping
out of the #1 line at 16* BTDC.
It wouldn't start. Just an occasional fire even with glow plugs.
It is in my shop where it is 60 degrees, so not cold.
I adjusted the timing a bit and now, with about 15 seconds of
running the glow plugs and 6 to 10 revolutions of the engine it
cranks right up.
Problem is it hammers badly.
It had a "diesel knock" at idle before I tore it down, but nothing
like this. It is and extremely loud, deep sounding knock. Not like
a valve train rattle, but I can't tell where its coming from.
There is 65-70 psi of oil pressure registering on the gauge and
I made sure I had pressure before I ever tried to start it.
I didn't use any ether.
What do you think? Timing too far off? Injector plugged?
I have a hard time believing its a rod, since it didn't do this
before and nothing in the lower end was disassembled.
