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If your fuel level was low while you were doing that it sure could uncovered the stand pipe to introduce air into the system. If that possibly the case. The answer is keep more fuel in the tanks. Don't stop doing donuts sometimes. Lol.

I am glad you were able to get your engine running with no other issues so far. If you truck does this again you are probably bringing in air on the suction line.

This is just my opinion but I would not tare anything down until you can verify that you have the system primed up( getting returns into the fuel tank while priming the system) and the engine still doesn't start. this doesn't cost much in the scheme of things. If you have a psi gauge (80 or...

You are correct you have a fuel problem. You should have some fuel run out after cranking for a bit if it were primed properly. You may also have other issues like a stuck injector or something of that sort but with the smoke getting less and less confirms not the proper fuel to the engine.

How they use it on the cummins is different than how I would use it on yours because they use the suction to draw the fuel up the suction line of the pump. On yours you need to force the air out of the heads and injectors

To be honest I don't know if it would work or not. It might work I just am not sure. Because you do need to build a little psi to prime Because of the clearance in the fuel lift pump. Years ago I did use a tall thumb pump oil can with a hose on it to prime an engine. On my m931 there is a hand...

That way you are pushing fuel through the filter, pump, heads and injectors back to tank pushing the air out of the system into the return line and in the fuel tank

Yes that is correct pump fuel into that port.

The priming pump they talked about in the tm you posted is similar to the one I posted

I have never use a vacuum to prime. If you were going to do that you would need to pull from the return line for it to be really effective. I normally use a hand pump like I put in a few posts up. Yes unless you break the vacuum at the line at the fuel tank it could sure pull all your fuel...

I would plumb the fuel lines properly once you get it running. You can almost use anything that can move fuel through the system so it returns to the tank. I would not run the engine until after unhooking what you use to prime unless you have a check valve in line

I have 1 of these or similar that I added some push lock hose to and a guage to for checking fuel psi. Normally I put a fitting into the 2nd fuel filter ( which is after the fuel pump) and prime it until I get returns into the fuel tank

With the lower temperatures should generate smoke and with the minimal smoke coming from the stack in his videos is why I think he has a fuel problem. If there was plenty of fuel in the engine when he hit it with either it should have went ahead and kept running on diesel or at least tried to

I still think you have some sort of fuel issue. If for some reason you have gotten an air bubble in you fuel . Your tank is low it might be that or there is air introduced from the lines. I would losen the filters to see if they are full. Then I would prime it up from the secondary filter...

I would be careful with the either . You want to make sure you can crank it all out meaning you have a full charge in your batteries that if it doesn't start on the either you can get rid of it. You don't want to either lock it. I am not there but it sounds a little slow on cranking speed in...

it is possible that low fuel psi will give you enough fuel to smoke good but not enough to start

Has it set for a while since starting last time? if you are not getting any smoke. First thing If no smoke I would check to make sure you kill is in the run position. If you get little or no smoke I would make sure you are your fuel is primed and make sure you get fuel PSI