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I bet your glad you didn't mess with the injection pump now ! These old diesels need to be run on a regular basis or bad things happen. It was very gratifying to hear it come to life ! Now is the time to run a good engine cleaner through it and then change the engine oil and filters. Then...

That has worked for me in the past. Cussing loudly really does help too ! The faster you can get that engine to spin the higher the chance you will have of it firing on at least a couple of cylinders. The compression created from the faster spinning engine will help push the rings against the...

Yes. If you can just get that engine to fire on just two cylinders, the others ones will come around. Of course it will sound and smoke like the world is coming to an end ! I had a 1940 IHC bull dozer that would constantly rust up rings (Of course it sat for most of the year) and the first...

Hey Guy ! Having worked on Diesels that had set for years I've found the most common cause of "No Start" to be lack of compression. The cylinder walls loose all oil and the compression rings then "rust" to the walls. Even after you brake them free they are in a "compressed" mode and won't seal...

Have you had any success in getting this engine started ? Very curious.

I didn't read your initial story, but I read it tonight. So this truck has set for 12 + years correct ? and when you checked the compression it didn't blow your finger away but just moved it ? On a diesel engine like this with compression ratios of 22:1 your finger should have been blown right...

You don't need a compression tester to see if your getting compression coming out the injector hole. Just put your finger on it. It should blow that finger right off the hole fast. If not then you have compression problems like sticking valves or rings not seating. That is also why I said to add...

You don't mention it, but did you replace all the fuel filters when you changed out the fuel ? Also when you had the injectors out, did you crank over the engine to see if there was any compression ? It should have spurted out air at least. I would also have squirted in some engine oil in each...