Any of you guys been able to shorten the legnth of time the starter turns over befor the engine fires up? Mine cranks for about two seconds befor it fires. I am toying with the idea of going to an air starter only having the starter run that long will require a lot of air.
Any ideas will be appreciated.

 

I've only owned my PSD for 5 months but notice the same... 2 secs before starting other than my ex-gaser which started emediately. If starts, main point I guess.

 

There is a reason why PSDs don't start immediately, The oil pressure in the High pressure oil lines needs to build to fire the injectors.

Hammer

 

Exactly. There is NOTHING you can do to shorten the starting time.

 

I asked this before I bought it. It also doubles as a safety device as well right?? no oil-pressure motor shuts off??

 

Well now that would be handy in saving the motor. It's news to me if that is the case. I don't know either way whether it's true or not, though.

 

It's actually true in a sense, if you are motoring down the road and let's say you rupture a HPOP o-ring and don't realize it. I can't exactly remember, but I think after somewhere over a gallon of oil is lost (can't remember exact amount), the HPOP reservoir runs dry and the lack of HPOP oil shuts truck down. This shutdown prevents too much oil being lost which would have caused loss of the main oil system and the possible catastrophic results of that happeneing.

Hammer