Specs call for 50 microliters per injection at full throttle. About a drop.

If you want to check, hold the throttle wide open while cranking. However, if you have any fuel at all, your pump is probably OK.

You CAN check by installing an injector to the end of the line, but outside the prechamber -- very dangerous, and the fuel mist can be ijected straight through your skin -- and this can be fatal if enough gets in.

Have the injectors checked -- most diesel places will test them for free.

Most likely you have bad glowplugs or low compression -- unless someone "worked" on the car and really screwed up the injection timing or valve clearance.

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!