pacman45
Registered User
Hi,
So I am pretty new to the diesel world but have owned a couple in the past along with some heavy machinery. 1. What should the compression on a 7.3 non-turbo with 167000 miles be around? 2. I have replaced all the fuel injectors, seal caps and lines. Along with filters. 3. Batteries are new 4. Starter works great and I crank above 200 rpm. 5. I replaced the glow plug relay and control box as an assembly.
Now the symptoms. Truck was sitting for about 2 years in my buddies construction yard. Has a nice custom bed on it with tool boxes all over and a nice hitch setup. He runs pretty new equipment now. I towed it to my yard and proceeded to change the stuff I listed along with an oil change and new fuel. Went to start it and I see no wait or glow plug light. I do hear an audible on/off clicking noise for several seconds then it stops. Crank it and it wants to start but not quite. do this a couple more times and then the batteries start to drain. I hit it with a quick squirt of starting fluid( I know its bad ) and it fires up. Runs with a good amount of greyish white smoke then clears up after about 5 min to a very little bit of bluish grey smoke. I drive it down the block and back to the yard has pretty good power considering no turbo. The truck is a single rear wheel f350 w 33 inch tires. It was able to chirp them off the line without me trying. Back at the yard, do a few cosmetic things go and start it a couple of more times and it starts up no issue. This morning I go out to start it and nothing. No clicking like I heard yesterday and wont start. So any ideas on whats going on with the glowplug situation would be helpful. should I see something on the dash? Should I hear noises, and with the relay and controller being new what else may cause this problem? Any help is greatly appreciated.
So I am pretty new to the diesel world but have owned a couple in the past along with some heavy machinery. 1. What should the compression on a 7.3 non-turbo with 167000 miles be around? 2. I have replaced all the fuel injectors, seal caps and lines. Along with filters. 3. Batteries are new 4. Starter works great and I crank above 200 rpm. 5. I replaced the glow plug relay and control box as an assembly.
Now the symptoms. Truck was sitting for about 2 years in my buddies construction yard. Has a nice custom bed on it with tool boxes all over and a nice hitch setup. He runs pretty new equipment now. I towed it to my yard and proceeded to change the stuff I listed along with an oil change and new fuel. Went to start it and I see no wait or glow plug light. I do hear an audible on/off clicking noise for several seconds then it stops. Crank it and it wants to start but not quite. do this a couple more times and then the batteries start to drain. I hit it with a quick squirt of starting fluid( I know its bad ) and it fires up. Runs with a good amount of greyish white smoke then clears up after about 5 min to a very little bit of bluish grey smoke. I drive it down the block and back to the yard has pretty good power considering no turbo. The truck is a single rear wheel f350 w 33 inch tires. It was able to chirp them off the line without me trying. Back at the yard, do a few cosmetic things go and start it a couple of more times and it starts up no issue. This morning I go out to start it and nothing. No clicking like I heard yesterday and wont start. So any ideas on whats going on with the glowplug situation would be helpful. should I see something on the dash? Should I hear noises, and with the relay and controller being new what else may cause this problem? Any help is greatly appreciated.