Truck running weird

[Meads98]

You can also get a manual push button for your starter from the auto parts store. Hook it up to the starter relay on your passenger's side fender and you can manually crank the engine with the push button with the key in the RUN position.

If the electric fuel pump isn't installed yet you want to:

1) Install the manual push button across your starter relay.
2) Bleed the fuel filter by depressing the Schraeder valve and cranking the engine until a solid stream of fuel comes out.
3) Bleed each of the cylinders individually by cracking the injectors loose and cranking the engine. I like to go by the firing order 1, 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. My truck will usually cough by 7 and start on 3.

When bleeding the engine make sure you let the starter rest. I'd crank no more than 30 seconds and then give it 2 minutes to rest. That might be overly conservative but cranking against 21.5:1 compression will heat up that starter fast. Also, make sure you wear safety glasses. The injectors will spit fuel when bleeding them.

Once you get her home it'd probably be a good idea to do the ol' ATF trick.

Atf trick? You talking about just running atf though it?

 

[Meads98]

Man......more than 24hrs and no word....... i hope our friend is okay.......

Yeah it got a little hectic. I had to be back home by Friday which is about 26 hours away so was in a hurry. Got the car running. Took it to a local mechanic and he let me store it in his lot for a couple days until someone could get out there to ship it back home to me. Hoped in a rental and have been on the road since Tuesday afternoon

 

[IDIBRONCO]

Atf trick? You talking about just running atf though it?

Sort of. You fill the filter with ATF, run the engine for a minute or two, then shut it off and let it sit overnight.

 

[Olds64]

^^^THIS^^^

I hope you get the truck home soon.

 

[Joezam]

If you are running more rpm than 2000 between shifts, you are wasting your motor. It’s a diesel, they are low rpm motors. You get peak torque at 2000, after that it falls off.

 

[Nero]

Only accurate if it's NA, mine has plenty of power up to 2800rpm.

 

[Black dawg]

If you are running more rpm than 2000 between shifts, you are wasting your motor. It’s a diesel, they are low rpm motors. You get peak torque at 2000, after that it falls off.

Good luck trying to get any work done with one shifting like that.

Even with a splitter, shift points in mine working, are 2500ish.