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once you really get her runnin, the best thing you can do is put it under heavy load and let it run that way for a few hours. many things get sticky from sitting. giving it a workout to get it good and hot frees alot of things up. you'll need to tackle that switch though. they are fairly basic...

No you shouldnt see any smoke from preheating. When you do it next time just do yourself a favor and feel the wires to make sure they are not hot.

When you first started it it didnt run fast enough to flash the field and get that thing generating power. That would be normal. As fir your starter there is a cutout switch. Its under a little cover just above the oil filter. Could be stuck

No diesel should be trickling back into the tank. Plunger has nothing to do with it. Fuel enters, fills the ip and flows out the return line. It usually takes a minute before you hear it trickling back into the tank and may be hard to hear if the tank is full. It will do all this in the prime...

Fuel going in the pump and none coming out then you might as well just pull it. Plunger prob got stuck and stripped out or broke the drive washer or bowtie as we call it. No big deal to fix really.