I am going to take the baby moose to a local place to see if they will test it for me to see if it is bad. However, I think I had a clog in the fuel system. I have since started it after pulling out the glow plugs and finding them soaked. See, after having it die on me, I sprayed it to get it going. I got it going and headed back towards the house. Having it break down right at a buddies house was an unseen windfall, but getting back to it a an actual temp of -1 or -3 or whatever it was, did not help. When you are in the pitch black with freezing temps, you may not think completely clearly. I was trying to jump it, but had little if any fire with ether. So, 2 days after the fact, the actual temperature did not reach double digits I don't think, so the ether was still in the cyl. So, with that, I was fighting the no-start problem yet again with that issue. Now, keep in mind, that the batteries are having to be jumped because of where it is parked. There is no charge it and come back because it is just not possible. So, I keep shooting ether into its throat and keep soaking the cyls.
I find this AFTER many many tries of crank and add ether. It fires a few times, but not like you would think. So, today, I yanked the supercharger, mounts, and the IP. The old one went on and the #1 line is leaking. Coincidentally, that is the 1 that you HAVE to take off the supercharger and mount to remove. So, after swapping the new IP and lines, it did the exact same thing. Like I said, I had clean new fuel going to them and it was pumping out of the tops of the lines when cracked.
After thinking it was out of time, a clog from the hard line inside of the filter housing, at the rear of the IP, and a few other things in my mind, I decided to pull my glow plugs and see if the cold had made the engine have too much blow by from shrinkage. When I pulled the GPs, I found that they were wet. Tested them (tested them back in July or Aug) and found I have 4 bad ones. Left the engine open and ran back to my house. Found I only had 3 spares (nib) and ran down to get a few more gallons of diesel. Left the diesel in the running car for a long time to be sure it was warm. Put the GPs back in the engine with the new ones under the hard lines, and put a dead one back in cyl #2, cause its the easiest to reach. It was in the 20s today, but the temps drop when the sun goes down. And of course, just as she fires off (first time mind you) the temps drop.
Hooray. Im happy about that. But it is a MISSIN PIG. I look at all of the injectors and none of the lines are leaking. I crack 5 or 6 and they all change. As I am getting ready to check another one, I see the leak squirting onto the intake. Main line in is leaking as is the #1 line. I will try to fix that in the coming weeks.
Now, I turned this pump up 1.5ish flats before putting it on. Let me tell you, the off throttle performance is sub par to the baby moose. It is quieter, so it my just need to be timed. Also, the baby moose was a turbo pump and this one is a factory NA pump.
SWS