Stranded for the first time! Please help diagnose my '82 240!

[driad_98]

Yea, my '82 240D quit on me the other day... sadly I was 100 miles from home. I got rescued and I'm going to go rent a dolly this afternoon to launch a recovery.

I've been mixing veggie oil with my diesel, and while clipping up I-5 at about 75 it started to feel like a clogged filter. Before she sucked air and died hard, I pulled over under a bridge.

I changed the (filthy) primary, primed and tried to start, fail. Prime prime prime, fail fail fail. Changed secondary filter, prime till blue in face, fail, prime more, talk to mechanical mentor (dad), pray pray... and she started right up. Drove down the road, felt a little sluggishing, pulled into TA Plaza, filled up with diesel, and once again, she wouldn't start.

I worked on her for about 3 hours, to no avail, including spray stuff and a HD battery jump. I've been reading other threads all morning and have some ideas, but... when I crack the injector line at the injector, should there be a gush of fuel? There wasn't when I cracked #1. I didn't crack the others. It seemed so strange for it to be running, shut down to fuel up and not start again. Friends tripped down to get me home. Thanks Bud and Nick.

Any advice? I'm going to go get it tomarrow. Thanks all. I feel like I remember some malady that caused hard starting on hot engines... ring a bell? Anyway, it was cold by the last time I tried. Please help.

Ash