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Jan 26, 2016 | 02:27 PM

echarter

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Hey guys

Hey guys I have a 7.3 idi I ran out of fuel in it heading to the station to fill up and decided to fix the fuel leaks on it. Replaced all the o rings on the injectors and replaced the soft lines and the plastic pieces that go over the injectors. Put five gallons in it and cracked all my fuel lines to bleed the system. This was all done on Monday and I am still not able to turn it over.

I have made sure that I getting fuel to the filter and to the injectors but still not having any luck. Can anyone give me a few more option on what I can do? Thank you

Jan 26, 2016 | 04:27 PM

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Make sure you are holding the throttle wide open while cranking. Disable your glowplugs. Have a helper spray short bursts of ether into the intake WHILE cranking if you hear pinging or knocking reduce the amount of ether you're spraying. Be sure to give the starter time go cool off for two minutes after ~15 seconds cranking and have a battery charger on to reduce stress on the batteries.

Jan 26, 2016 | 04:29 PM

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Ok and now I ran into a new problem. Drained the batteries from trying to start it charged them up fully and no the truck won't try to turn over at all

Jan 26, 2016 | 05:20 PM

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Charger is your friend, if that doesn't help, you may have burned up the starter.

Jan 26, 2016 | 06:08 PM

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I have a friend that said I could of hydrolocked it. What are your opinions on that?

Jan 26, 2016 | 06:39 PM

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More likely a dead starter. Hydrolocked by what? Unless you were pouring fuel down the intake I see no reason it would have done that. Put a 15/16" socket on the vibration damper crank bolt and see if you can turn it over by hand. If it turns it isn't hydrolocked. If it won't turn, remove the glow plugs and try again, if liquid is in the piston it will be forced out the glow plug hole. Most likely though, you just killed the starter with extended cranking.

Jan 26, 2016 | 06:43 PM

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Hydrolocked with what? I've only seen it happen once and the hood was open during a rainstorm(as it had been many times before that without issue). Either the batteries are dead and re-charging will rectify this temporarily. Or the starter has been fried on the last attempt, in my experience they only die after the heavy cranking and will take you by surprise the next time you try it.