Do you loosen injectors to rotate pump?

icanfixall

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Sounds like you have an issue diagnosed. Try loosening the easy to reach lines on the back of the injection pump. No need to bother the feed line from filter housing. then loosen the lines at the injectors you could not reach on back of the pump. Bet it moves easy then. If not you have "issues" keeping the pump from moving.sure hope you marked the original pump location BEFORE you started playing with it. I always suggest a center punch mark in the pump to housing joint line. then when the pump moves you can see the center punch mark becoming two half circles.
 

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Thanks and yes I did mark it. I am going to leave it alone for now as it's running great but still needs a new ip so once I get the new pump I'll remove all the lines and time it exactly. Big difference now is I noticed since I had the advance solenoid jumpered still after I was able to advance the pump about a 1/16th it actually lost a tiny bit of power. I pulled the solenoid jumper and it runs like a ***** ape so I'm hooking it back up to only advance at cold start again but it's nice and clackety at idle and pulls hard!
 

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I also re connected my wastegate and noticed before I would give it it's all to get 6-7psi and it would be 2-3k to reach that. Now it'll boost 6-7 from a stop quickly and top out at 10 so I'm much happier as the extra boost wasn't doing anything for me without the fuel
 

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...Yes. Better timing makes a big difference. And yes, the timing curve from the cold advance should only be used when cold; it makes the pump behave oddly if you run with it too much(it drops the pressure internally, and that messes with timing and response from what I've seen).
 
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