Glad you got it running; now you just need to find out why it quit.
I put this here just so others will know :
On ANY diesel system, if the engine fires and is running, there is ABSOLUTELY NO BENEFIT gained from "cracking" injector-lines.
There is no need to "bleed" the lines if the engine will start.
Further, the IDI system CAN and WILL self-bleed, so no need at all to manually bleed anything on an IDI = forget that tempting Schraeder Valve is even on there (it is for checking fuel-pressure).
A running diesel engine will not so much as hiccup if a little bit of air happens to pass through the system.
What WILL cause problems is a LARGE amount of air with NO FUEL, thus it momentarily runs out of fuel; and, enough air will cause the lift-pump to lose it's prime.
thank you very much for the information, I am not 100% sure how I got fuel into the lines, but it was probably from the rear tank being under 1/4 tank and having it idling on a side slope, my rear tank registers 1/4 at 2 gallons I found out, gotta love the stock gauges (pay attention all you others who are new like me)
it wasn't hard at all, I made sure I was on my front tank which had plenty of fuel, replaced the fuel filter with a new one full of fuel, and that was that, I cracked my fuel lines for 2 reasons:
a) I wanted to make sure all the air was out, even though the truck was running fine, I didn't know I did not need to do it
b) it let me make sure all my injectors were working properly, I have not yet had the truck a month and want to make sure it's going to run good for a long time
the schrader valve........ sounds like a good way to get a faceful of wasted fuel.....
as far as running wide open on the governor for long periods of time to get air out of the system, sounds like a great idea.......
if you are trying to destroy an engine......
