actually, it doesn't seem that different. The diesel is injected into the engine, just like in a gas engine (except that it's direct, not through a port), so if you add fuel directly it should do the same thing and find it's way into the cylinder, which is what I wanted. When I did that I was testing out the theory that the engine wasn't getting diesel for some reason, and that's why it wouldn't fire. But when it didn't fire even after i knew it had diesel, then I knew it was something else. Funny that the "something else" was that I didn't keep the car cranking long enough.

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Gabriel
'91 350SD 162k
'83 300SD 210k - rear-ended and scrapped
'84 300SD 210k - totalled