defecater
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Could use some encouragement or advise here
Truck in question is a 93 F-350 2wd crewcab dually with a 7.3 and a Banks Sidewinder setup.
This is my first diesel, other than a couple of parts trucks. Bought it back in July with a bad E4OD and blowing substantial amounts of white smoke- also hard to start (without starting fluid) and running pretty rough untill it warmed up.
Dont like automatics anyway, so it seemed to be a great candidate for swapping in a stick. Did a bit of research on the web (including here) about the smoke issue and thought it was a good gamble it was just an injector issue- For the price I paid for the truck, it was worth it even if the engine was internally bad, as it was a texas truck and I am in the rust belt.
Since getting it home, it has sat on my gooseneck trailer inside my shed while I worked on it when I had time. I swapped in a T-19 and a DNE overdrive unit. Diagnosed it with two bad glow plugs, but I changed them all out for some Motorcraft units, The previous owner said it didnt put out much heat in the winter, so I put in a new thermostat and while the coolant was drained, put in a coolant filter and got rid of the factory heater hose mounted heater and put in a block heater (freeze plug) did a few other things to it too, like move the EGT and boost gauge to a more easily visible place, and removed the non functioning power windows for some hand crank units-- as a side note, it seemed like there was always some issue, no matter what item I happened to be working on, that would hinder me every step of the way.
Anyhow, I was thinking I would finish buttoning up the coolant system earlier this afternoon and get it fired up and off the trailer so I could move on with the (hopefully) injector issue next, but not so. First thing I noticed was that the "wait to start" light wasnt going off- before I worked on it, it would go off after several seconds. (is it possible there is just a pocket of air in the cooling system where the sensor is mounted that is keeping it from getting a reading of the coolant temp?? Next problem was that it wouldnt even crank- no signal to the starter solenoid on the fender. I assumed the neutral safety switch was in the column, but maybe not??? was it maybe in the transmission itself and now I need to splice a wire or two together in the harness that used to run to the E4OD?? Obviously I did have to somewhat remove the existing column to get the clutch pedal assembly in, and that has me wondering if I neglected to hook some wiring back in, or worse, messed something up. I finally just ran a couple of jumper wires into the cab with me to try and start it, then found that it wouldnt crank over very well. The batteries in it look like they have some age, so I will take them into town and get them checked tomorrow and go from there.
Anybody have some helpfull words of wisdom for me about the no crank situation and the "wait to start" light staying on?? (I do know that I can burn up the glow plugs, so I tried not to keep the key on for any longer than neccesary- maybe 10 seconds at the most.
I was pretty damn pissed after all this, and had to blow off some steam by taking out a couple of my larger rifles and burning off some rounds- girlfriend had to go out and see if I shot the truck full of holes!!!
Truck in question is a 93 F-350 2wd crewcab dually with a 7.3 and a Banks Sidewinder setup.
This is my first diesel, other than a couple of parts trucks. Bought it back in July with a bad E4OD and blowing substantial amounts of white smoke- also hard to start (without starting fluid) and running pretty rough untill it warmed up.
Dont like automatics anyway, so it seemed to be a great candidate for swapping in a stick. Did a bit of research on the web (including here) about the smoke issue and thought it was a good gamble it was just an injector issue- For the price I paid for the truck, it was worth it even if the engine was internally bad, as it was a texas truck and I am in the rust belt.
Since getting it home, it has sat on my gooseneck trailer inside my shed while I worked on it when I had time. I swapped in a T-19 and a DNE overdrive unit. Diagnosed it with two bad glow plugs, but I changed them all out for some Motorcraft units, The previous owner said it didnt put out much heat in the winter, so I put in a new thermostat and while the coolant was drained, put in a coolant filter and got rid of the factory heater hose mounted heater and put in a block heater (freeze plug) did a few other things to it too, like move the EGT and boost gauge to a more easily visible place, and removed the non functioning power windows for some hand crank units-- as a side note, it seemed like there was always some issue, no matter what item I happened to be working on, that would hinder me every step of the way.
Anyhow, I was thinking I would finish buttoning up the coolant system earlier this afternoon and get it fired up and off the trailer so I could move on with the (hopefully) injector issue next, but not so. First thing I noticed was that the "wait to start" light wasnt going off- before I worked on it, it would go off after several seconds. (is it possible there is just a pocket of air in the cooling system where the sensor is mounted that is keeping it from getting a reading of the coolant temp?? Next problem was that it wouldnt even crank- no signal to the starter solenoid on the fender. I assumed the neutral safety switch was in the column, but maybe not??? was it maybe in the transmission itself and now I need to splice a wire or two together in the harness that used to run to the E4OD?? Obviously I did have to somewhat remove the existing column to get the clutch pedal assembly in, and that has me wondering if I neglected to hook some wiring back in, or worse, messed something up. I finally just ran a couple of jumper wires into the cab with me to try and start it, then found that it wouldnt crank over very well. The batteries in it look like they have some age, so I will take them into town and get them checked tomorrow and go from there.
Anybody have some helpfull words of wisdom for me about the no crank situation and the "wait to start" light staying on?? (I do know that I can burn up the glow plugs, so I tried not to keep the key on for any longer than neccesary- maybe 10 seconds at the most.
I was pretty damn pissed after all this, and had to blow off some steam by taking out a couple of my larger rifles and burning off some rounds- girlfriend had to go out and see if I shot the truck full of holes!!!
