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Old 06-17-2013, 02:57 PM
Rolson Rolson is offline
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Ford n Benz is running again (sort of)

Here's an update for you all,

After confirming that all the timing was correct, including the injection pump, I still could not get it to start while cranking. Just turned over too slowly to fire. I could get smoke, but that was it.

Saturday afternoon my Dad helped me pull start it and finally got it to run.
After it was warmed up to operating temperature, I parked it and shut it down. While it was still warm, it started up pretty well.

The next day however, no amount of cranking would get it started. Cycled the glow pugs several times. Tried WD40 in the intake and still would not go.

As a last ditch effort, I gave it a tiny shot of starting fluid and it finally started. I took it down the road and drove it for 20 minutes or so. I'm getting a lot of smoke at idle, but after it's fully warmed up it will run clear.

The smoke is bluish so I'm pretty sure it is oil burning.

Getting a lot of smoke from the blow-by also.

After getting it as hot as it did when it broke down, is it possible that the rings are carboned up and causing it to smoke now? It didn't before.

That has been suggested by someone I know. If so, is there a way to clean the carbon from the rings, like Seafoam, AutoRx or some other type of cleaner?

I'm also looking at replacing the starter with a Mean Green Heavy Duty starter which will run me about $349. Are there any other hi-torque starters out there that you would recommend?

Thank you for your thoughts and input.

Rick
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