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Originally Posted by Maxbumpo
Priming the injection pump: the manual pump ONLY puts fuel through the pump, NOT out the injection lines. When the feel of the pump and the noise it makes change, which can take 50 - 75 strokes of the pump, then you've primed it. After that you must crank the engine over with the starter to get fuel pushed out to the injectors.
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Yes I am aware of that, and it took a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time to get the air out of this one. I have installed IP's before that took no more than a couple rounds of 30 second cranking sessions to get the air out. Even after I got this engine sort-of running, it still had some air in the lines and took a minute or so to smooth out. Fortunately, the couple times I put it on the stand, worked on the rod cap, put it back on the floor and started it up, it fired and ran perfectly on the second crank. This last time, it started with the first crank without the glow system hooked up.