wth?

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Rob M
Norwich, VT USA
1980 240D Euro delivery 4 speed manual silver/blue
~160K miles

Well, this is not as serious as a newly rebuilt engine...

But just the same... with it having sat for 14 months... I would think about making sure that new oil is up to the bearings before they experience full load from running the engine...
A Pain... but I am sure you are proud of this engine and want to keep it going a Long time... so at the very least I would pull the glowplugs and turn the engine over with the starter ( keeping in mind the max duration of running the starter and the cooling periods in between ) until the pressure registered on the inside guage... then put them back and fire her up.......

and press the "stop" lever down so the IP doesn't load up the cylinders with fuel unyil you're ready for it. (something seemingly obvious that I've forgotten)

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.

Wish I had thought of that... of course I think it was you or Brian who posted the amount of fuel per stroke the IP puts out at idle..... .009 cc's ?????
But the stop lever should be pressed.....

my boy and I just got the Jetta running again after taking the IP out due to leaking. we put it back on and couldn't get it to fire. thinking of a thousand things to go wrong, I went back to the basics. Rechecked timing to TDC, and, while standing there thinking, had "the boy" check for power on the shut off switch. sure enough, we had it switched with another wire that supposed to advance timing electrically. so...
when it started, we were happy campers.
feels good to hear any engine run after working on it. que no?

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Current money-pits:
96 Passat TDI
78 300D 100k miles(60miles/day)FOR SALE
91 Jetta Diesel 250k miles (80miles/day)
82 Toyota Diesel pickup 150k miles; out of service for a little while with a valve problem.
All on BelenBioDiesel
Past diesels:
01 Golf TDI
81 Isuzu P/U
85 Jetta
89 KW 425 cat
85 Pete 400 cat (currently still running the west coast with over 1.5 million miles)
81 KW 400 Cummins
77 Freightliner CO ???? Cummins (Buttercup)
57 180D lots of miles(gone but not forgotten)