Well guys, you may remember a few months ago I was asking for advice for the cracked head on my 87 300d. I found a good buy on a used #14 head on ebay, had it pressure tested with no cracks. I installed that along with a new water pump, resealed the injection pump, put in new motor mounts, installed a set of freshly rebuilt and pop-tested injectors, new glow plugs, new fuel filters of course, and put in a new ELR solenoid (to fix the loping idle I used to have).
It took me about 20 different tries at cranking it last night to get all of the air out of the system, but once I did it fired right up and sounded great! The only issue I noticed is a slow diesel leak and bubbling next to the base of injector #3, and injector #4 also shows a slight diesel leak at the base but no bubbling. I'll have to try torquing them down a tiny bit more...and if that doesn't fix it I guess I'll have to assume the prechamber collar is a bit loose (the pre-chambers were not touched at the machine shop...I only had them pressure test the head). Still...I am excited to hear it run again after a few months of it sitting in my driveway!
05-05-2013, 08:23 AM
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