NCTractor6.9
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Hello all,
First off, this is my first post. I'm a normal garage mechanic with some experience on rebuilding gas motors but this is my first diesel. So now the story..
I bought my 1984 F250 6.9IDI back in early October. She was lost and forgotten in a field about an hour away from where I live in Raleigh. PO stated he believed she had a blown head gasket about a year ago when he parked her and left it. Asking $1100 I loaded her on the trailer and brought her back for $600. It's a manual, regular cab, long bed with probably fifteen shades of white covering the body.
We completed a head gasket change per some notes I found after HOURS of research on the internet. She got a valve job as well as new glow plugs when we put the new head gaskets on. Note: What a job getting those heads off without a lift or pulley system...
New fuel filter and new oil filter with fresh oil and she refuses to start. We have attempted for hours to purge the air out of the fuel lines, from the schrader valve and by cracking each injector line while turning the motor over. We even rigged up a separate fuel line bypassing everything before the mechanical lift pump on the side of the motor. We did this thinking that the stock fuel/water separator could be allowing air into the system, that was yesterday and it did not make a difference. I've put a new "Ultima Select" starter in there, that seemed to help a little by turning the motor a little faster than the stock starter we took out. New starter relay. The glow plugs are controlled by a push button inside the cab.
The motor does seem to hit on one or two cylinders from time to time, usually with a small shot of ether, but I've read to limit my use of that.
Any help from here would be greatly appreciated. I would love to put this truck back on the road as the interior is in really good shape and you don't see many of the trucks around anymore.
Cheers
First off, this is my first post. I'm a normal garage mechanic with some experience on rebuilding gas motors but this is my first diesel. So now the story..
I bought my 1984 F250 6.9IDI back in early October. She was lost and forgotten in a field about an hour away from where I live in Raleigh. PO stated he believed she had a blown head gasket about a year ago when he parked her and left it. Asking $1100 I loaded her on the trailer and brought her back for $600. It's a manual, regular cab, long bed with probably fifteen shades of white covering the body.
We completed a head gasket change per some notes I found after HOURS of research on the internet. She got a valve job as well as new glow plugs when we put the new head gaskets on. Note: What a job getting those heads off without a lift or pulley system...
New fuel filter and new oil filter with fresh oil and she refuses to start. We have attempted for hours to purge the air out of the fuel lines, from the schrader valve and by cracking each injector line while turning the motor over. We even rigged up a separate fuel line bypassing everything before the mechanical lift pump on the side of the motor. We did this thinking that the stock fuel/water separator could be allowing air into the system, that was yesterday and it did not make a difference. I've put a new "Ultima Select" starter in there, that seemed to help a little by turning the motor a little faster than the stock starter we took out. New starter relay. The glow plugs are controlled by a push button inside the cab.
The motor does seem to hit on one or two cylinders from time to time, usually with a small shot of ether, but I've read to limit my use of that.
Any help from here would be greatly appreciated. I would love to put this truck back on the road as the interior is in really good shape and you don't see many of the trucks around anymore.
Cheers