Hello,

more and more at full cold start my 82 is exhibiting cold start issues. In the 50s-60s type weather, I'm used to glowing until the light goes out, then the engine catching on the first cylinder.

More and more what happens is that I crank and the engine turns over multiple times and doesn't catch. When I let off the key the car didn't start. Try again after glowing again it may catch, but when it does it is misfiring and the speed is 350-500rpm. Giving a bit of throttle helps, but let go too early and it will remain rough. After manually holding the idle up around 750-800 via the pedal, finally it will be able to govern itself at 750 with no throttle.

I used an ohmmeter on the ground to the threaded part of each glow plug and got somewhere between 0.3 and 0 ohm for each one. Battery is fully charged showing 12.78v. During glow the voltage is around 11.

Valves are adjusted, car returns 28-29 mpg consistently, and runs really nicely. The car has some hot idle shake which I've tried to adjust via the (updated) rack dampener pin, but it still exhibits the same just slightly less... Rack dampener may have something to do with it, may adjust it back and put up with the shake (changed shocks no help)...

Any thoughts suggestions based upon this discription?

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Current Diesels:
1981 240D (73K)
1982 300CD (169k)
1985 190D (169k)
1991 350SD (116k)
1991 350SD (206k)
1991 300D (228k)
2008 ML320 CDI (199k)
1996 Dodge Ram CTD (442k)
1996 Dodge Ram CTD (267k)

Past Diesels:
1983 300D (228K), 1985 300D (233K), 1993 300D 2.5T (338k), 1993 300SD (291k)