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Too long since an update. We couldn't really see a way to loosen and adjust the pump without bending the fuel lines around, so we're deciding on a different route. The truck was smoking when I got it, Jr and Tom think it's the injector pump that's bad. Going to pull the IP out in the next few...

Interesting. I put 8 new (rebuilt) injectors in my motor cause it was slightly knocking and smoking bad when I very first got the truck. We thought some new injectors might fix the problem. @cucvrus suggested I loosen the 3 bolts on the IP and rotate the pump a line thickness to the driverside...

Okay well we got her running again tonight. She is DUMPING fuel and smoking bad. Even getting some fuel knock when we lay into it. Even at idle she's smoking bad. Is my issue at the injector pump? Injectors? Is there some screw that controls the fuel input somewhere?

It's too cold to stay here as long as I wanted to today. I fixed the 12V wire going to the horn: I also took a picture of the back of my passenger alternator: I've got the red and orange wires going to what I think is the positive terminal of the alternator. These go to the 24V bus bar. The...

@87cr250r you're right. We're gonna have to take the intake and fuel lines back off and get that leak sorted this week. Currently I'm going up to the shop to look around at some things: see if I can fix my horn broken wire, see if I can trace that 12V "ground" issue I'm having, and see if I...

Here's the update: We cracked the DS injector lines and cranked the motor over a while. Fuel came out and we tightened them down. Had smoke coming out the driver tailpipe. Worked the PS injectors, they bled and we tightened them back. Smoke out both tailpipes, she wants to run. We pushed 12V...

I've got the 12V battery ground going to the frame rail. I had it going to the negative bus and then the frame rail from the negative bus but my friends said i should be directly grounding the primary battery

@Buck69 really awesome writeup man, hats off to you for your thoroughness. I really appreciate it, and it's interesting to me because I feel like your truck and my new harness might be wired differently. I have no glow plug wiring harness in my truck, it was tore up and there was no GP control...

The negative should be hooked to the 12V battery. Only 2 things on the negative of the 24V battery are the cable to the positive 12V and the cable that runs to the engine wiring harness block to supply it with 12V. I will double check that tomorrow to make sure that's not where I'm going...

That would save me a lot of time tomorrow when I can get back up to the shop. If you don't mind, I'd appreciate it. Somehow I've got 12V of power coming out of it to the engine ground on the intake stud. My guess is it's gonna come out under the dash somewhere or I somehow have it connected to...

Interesting. So I see a ground strap to the firewall and I wanna assume that thick black cable is for a slave plug, I have 2 cables just like it in my engine bay I tied down for now till we get things running and charging properly. I see you also have a small black ground coming from somewhere...

Correct. Gonna crack the injector lines and bleed the air out soon. Theyre just busy this weekend and told me not to do it myself. Is removing the glow plugs necessary if theyre manual and not key based?

Couldn't have said it better myself. The guys have been nothing but patient with me this whole time, and I've learned a lot so far. It felt really good that I put all the wiring back in and everything was correct, 24V was where it should be, 12V was where it should be. I guess we will see how...

Last night was fun. We hooked the batteries up, and nothing started melting. Turned the key and the fuel pump kicked on and some of the 12V stuff in the cab was working again - the radio and little interior lights the PO put in before me. Neat. Took out a multimeter and checked the 12V side, it...

Interesting, I read the thread. Looks like it has to do with a few things, ether breaks down oil and if the glow plugs are hot it can flash back out of the intake? I also see in some articles online that starter fluids in diesels can ignite early from the diesels high compression, which could...

Plan is to get a can of ether and turn the key tomorrow. Get her running again. Feels like christmas eve as a kid.

Everythings set up to put batteries on and bleed the air tomorrow. Alternators and belts are on. Wires are on the alternators. The inspection plate is back on. The CDR valve and hoses are back on. Battery tray is back on. Power steering lines are on. Vacuum pump is tightened down. All she is...

Ahh, I see: Hard to say, honestly. We took the bracket off that had the washers behind it, and Junior/Tom put washers on it before re-install because it looked like it had washers installed on it by PO (you could tell by the wear on the back of the bracket where the studs went in). So they put...

What do ya mean the Po? Before the PS pump had a broken wing on it on the far driver side. This one's solid. Only thing original is the brackets and on the PS pump that bottom bracket never came out it stayed there. The PS pump and attached bracket are all new.

These angles look right? Might be my eyes but that PS pump looks closer to 90 than the alternator on the driver side. Granted the pump looks way better than it did but still.