cheepsk8
Registered User
so I drove my pickup to town and it ran just fine pulling a 5000 load of scrap metal. After dropping it off, it started a miss. This got progressively worse to where it was way low on power. I limped it to a shop where they diagnosed a faulty #5 injector and three others out of balance. I've been laid off for a while and couldn't afford the repair bill so I towed it home. I had to restart it so I could get maneuvered to hook it up and it barely started and was missing on what seemed to be half of the cylinders.
I replaced the #5 injector and it didn't want to start. A lot of cranking and white smoke. It finally did fire but got a lot of diesel knock. Then I noticed a fog of diesel under the hood. Having the wife crank on it, I found the fuel rail fitting to the injector line was leaking from the rail side! Nice.
What I was wondering is, how long should it take to get pressure? It takes a bit of cranking to leak. Could the injector pump have gone bad and sent crap into the injector (s)?
I don't have money for recreational parts replacing or any sort of reader.
Thanks in advance.
I replaced the #5 injector and it didn't want to start. A lot of cranking and white smoke. It finally did fire but got a lot of diesel knock. Then I noticed a fog of diesel under the hood. Having the wife crank on it, I found the fuel rail fitting to the injector line was leaking from the rail side! Nice.
What I was wondering is, how long should it take to get pressure? It takes a bit of cranking to leak. Could the injector pump have gone bad and sent crap into the injector (s)?
I don't have money for recreational parts replacing or any sort of reader.
Thanks in advance.
