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Old 03-26-2007, 10:01 PM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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Originally Posted by jshadows View Post
At first thought that, but initial startup is smooth as could be without a missed stroke. It's almost as if it starts missing strokes after the after-glow has turned off. And once it gets to this point (say 1-2 minutes into running from cold) it's like I said, random about every say 10 seconds, 15 seconds that there's a miss.

Can't help but think that all the problems I explained are related to the same "sticky/fouling" component. Just going on gut feel though.

Still think glow plugs? Will a simple resistance test find the bad one?
I can only go by what you tell me:

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If I start it cold it fires up in 1 crank revolution but if I just let it idle and warm it it will start to blow strokes, intermittent and not alarming, but noticeable.

I read this as an instant start followed by the usual 603 banging and missing for 15-20 seconds.

However, you now counter that statement with:


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..........but initial startup is smooth as could be without a missed stroke.


So, I really don't know what to think at this point.........other than operator error.
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