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Well bleeding it is very easy and may help. Just disconnect the wires that go into the top, and then on the top of the filter block there is a screw that you just open. Have someone crank the truck and air nothing will probably come out the top. Just have them keep cranking until fuel shoots...

Did you bleed the fuel filter?

I tightened them up and it was still hard starting so I bled the fuel filter and now it cranks right up. Problem solved!

I found the problem. I hope! It turns out two of the injectors I loosened to let the air out of the lines were not as tight as they should have been so I was leaking diesel everywhere. I will let it cool down tonight and then tomorrow we'll see if that was it.

Cool I will try and bleed the filter after work today. I'll let everyone know how it goes.

Air in the system sounds likely to me too. Honestly I didn't prime the system or anything either. Just took the old one off poured some diesel in it and slapped her on. So I'm guessing this is user error but something I can fix with no new parts.

Ok I recently changed my glow plugs and glow plug relay as I was having some starting issues when the truck was cold. It would start but only after I cycled the glow plugs a time or two and cranked on it for a bit. After changing out the plugs and relay (ACDelco plugs, and BWD relay) it...