Hard starting!!?!?!?!
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Awesome. Coolant is from maybe a year ago. It's ELC red rotella coolant. I don't remember if I used the nitrate free or not. I don't think I did I think I just used regular rotella red ELC. I will for sure save it and reuse it. Thanks!
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Between my new turbo, glow plugs, valve cover painting, EBP delete, pedestal paint, oil cooler paint and oil cooler reseal I will have a very busy work weekend coming up soon hopefully for my truck! I'm excited!
I'm excited!
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Here are the crimping tool and lugs I ordered.
Battery Cable Lug Crimping Tools with Wire Cutter-haisstronica Wire Crimper Tools-AWG 10 8 6 4 2 1-Battery Terminal Crimper for Heavy Duty Wire Lugs,Battery Terminal,Copper Lugs Terminal (RED) https://a.co/d/9q7i1jE
280Pcs Copper Wire Lugs, 70Pcs AWG 2 4 6 8 10 12 Battery Cable Lugs Battery Cable Ends Ring Terminals Connectors with 80pcs Heat Shrink Tubing https://a.co/d/gXnBaxR
This kit probably doesn't have big enough lugs for my cables but, I will use them for something. They were cheap anyway.
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I have a doorman gasket on the driver side which has the integrated harness in it with no connector. And a quarter underneath the tab passenger side because it came unplugged before. I dealt with that when I replaced my injectors. I would hope there wouldn't be any problem in there LOL
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I have a doorman gasket on the driver side which has the integrated harness in it with no connector. And a quarter underneath the tab passenger side because it came unplugged before. I don't want that when I replaced my injectors. I would hope there wouldn't be any problem in there LOL
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All eight. I couldn't get a reading out of any of them.
I mean they all gave a reading but it was ridiculously high. That's why I checked the block grounds. I assumed if all eight of them had ridiculous resistance to ground there must be a problem with the ground. But I redid the block ground on the driver side, the one on the passenger side looks good, and I still want to take it apart and clean it but I didn't get around to it.
Its pretty much narrowed down. It's either gp's or harnesses under the valve cover. I should have replaced my GPS when I was doing injectors but they were all working so I didn't worry about it.
I did also check continuity from the output of the GP relay to the plug that plugs into the outside of the valve cover. Continuity was good. Only thing I can check there is to see if I'm getting enough power to the harnesses at the valve cover. I don't think I will have any issues with that. I think it's going to be inside the valve cover one way or another. I guess I won't know till I get the valve covers off
I mean they all gave a reading but it was ridiculously high. That's why I checked the block grounds. I assumed if all eight of them had ridiculous resistance to ground there must be a problem with the ground. But I redid the block ground on the driver side, the one on the passenger side looks good, and I still want to take it apart and clean it but I didn't get around to it.
Its pretty much narrowed down. It's either gp's or harnesses under the valve cover. I should have replaced my GPS when I was doing injectors but they were all working so I didn't worry about it.
I did also check continuity from the output of the GP relay to the plug that plugs into the outside of the valve cover. Continuity was good. Only thing I can check there is to see if I'm getting enough power to the harnesses at the valve cover. I don't think I will have any issues with that. I think it's going to be inside the valve cover one way or another. I guess I won't know till I get the valve covers off
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I made a video of my truck hard starting this morning, I'm waiting for it to upload to youtube and I'll post it on here.
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I don't have time to pull the valve covers to test everything, put it back together and wait for glow plugs and then take it back apart again to replace them. I would rather go ahead and get glow plugs and then take it apart to test everything just in case it is the glow plugs. I will replace them anyway while I'm in there. Might as well. I'm hoping to have glow plugs sometime within a week.
I picked up a 12 gauge 50ft extension cord and a timer so I can use the block heater for now.
As always I appreciate the help! Keep the ideas coming!
