battery is great
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battery is great
last weekend, while deer hunting ten miles from the colorado border, my 2002 powerstroke wouldn't start. it would crank, act like it wanted to fire, but not start. i had heard that a battery might be down a little, so i stopped a chevy and got a boost. as i would turn the key on, the glo plug light and all the rest of the guages would spring to attention, i would wait for the glo plug light to go off. then i would crank. sometimes, the oil pressure guage would go off leaving all the other guages on,(including the glo plug indicator). the glo plug indicator would go off, i would crank it, sometimes the engine would try to start, sometimes not. i tried it for about half an hour, and finally it started. it would have been a very long walk back! any suggestions?
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Lon First thing you need to see if there is any smoke coming out of the exhaust while you crank. No smoke no fuel, If you have white smoke you have fuel but have a glowplug problem. Let me tell you from experience I have a 2000 PSD and it would not start when it got to 60 deg. or lower and no smoke(no fuel). But plugged in after it warmed up it would start. HERES WHAT I FOUND THE HARD WAY. Bad batteries! Not enough juice to power the injectors but enough to crank. Check you batteries and all your connections real good. I actually diconnect one of the small wires to the GPR and found the truck starts fine.
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i had heard that the batteries could be the problem should something like this happens, thats why i flagged down the chevy. yes, there was smoke, i really dont think that it was a fuel problem. its a cold morning, i will see if it will start today. the problem is intermittend
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Sounds exactly what my truck did until I changed the Glow Plugs, I had 5 GP that were bad, 4 on one side and 1 on the other. You can check each one by removing the wire harness on the valve cover, the two outer pins on each end are for the GPs, the should measure out to be approx. 1Ohm or so. Good luck.
