GateKeeper
Registered User
Hello all! Fairly new to the diesel world but im undertaking a project truck. The truck used to be my fathers, he bought it back in 1993, its an F350 dually with 185,000KM that he parked out in a field 15 years ago now. My goal is to get it started and running and work from there, probably wont pass safety anymore so i would put it back in service on the farm but not for highway usage anymore.
So, what ive done so far is bleed the air from the injector lines, oil change, replaced the fuel filter and bypassed the tanks for now. Ive got fuel to all the injectors and my mechanical pump is working fine it seems. Bunch of the glowplugs are no good but I can get it to start but only for about 2 seconds, during these 2 seconds the rpm just flies up to 2500 and she dies.....After shutting itself down it cranks FOREVER and will not start again (and i mean absolutely wont fire again) with just white puffs coming out the exhaust. Return lines down at the tanks are leaking diesel a bit but i don't think that would hinder it from restarting after initially running.
So i let it sit a week, come back and the whole process starts over. pops off initially rpm flies up there and dies....cranks for an eternity again but will not pop off and run at all.
Any insight on why it wont run would be much appreciated !
So, what ive done so far is bleed the air from the injector lines, oil change, replaced the fuel filter and bypassed the tanks for now. Ive got fuel to all the injectors and my mechanical pump is working fine it seems. Bunch of the glowplugs are no good but I can get it to start but only for about 2 seconds, during these 2 seconds the rpm just flies up to 2500 and she dies.....After shutting itself down it cranks FOREVER and will not start again (and i mean absolutely wont fire again) with just white puffs coming out the exhaust. Return lines down at the tanks are leaking diesel a bit but i don't think that would hinder it from restarting after initially running.
So i let it sit a week, come back and the whole process starts over. pops off initially rpm flies up there and dies....cranks for an eternity again but will not pop off and run at all.
Any insight on why it wont run would be much appreciated !