Re: debugging poor starting diesel engine

Posted by thejdman01 on January 30, 2005 at 17:29:01 from (64.12.117.7):

In Reply to: debugging poor starting diesel engine posted by LK on January 30, 2005 at 16:16:37:

make sure glow plugs good. smell the diesel. you said poorly maintained in cold alge in the diesel will slow but if it has any water and alge that makes one heck of a difference. a warm block makes a world of difference. if your getting blue smoke when warmed burning oil. your shooting yourself in the foot in winter w/a thicker oil but that would help w/compression i dont knwo what you are currently running for oil. i had a tractor once used oil pretty bad and put thicker oil in it to get the compression up that shed start and the thick oil didnt bother too bad even though it was cold as long as she was plugged in and i had a magntic heater on the pan or another tip that i found works super find an old concrete blanket that plugs in usually you can find old ones fairly easy if you look in the right place and run a red hen heater 1/2 hour before youw ant it started under the blanket that makes a world of difference. also not sure about that engine weather it has an inline or rotary injection pump my guess is an inline the easiest way to rule out fuel problem is when its running crack open each line individually a bad injector or a fuel problem the rpm will not change then you know that cylinder is the dead cylinder. if the rpm drops you know that cylinder is working cause when you crack the line rpm drops that means that one was working

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