fast advice please
fast advice please
Hi, i live in florida and i travel for vacation to chicago, this morning was at 15 degrees, it took me like 15 minutes to make the om 617 engine start, i did like 12 glow plug cycles without any luck, i had to jump the glow plug relay like for 3 minutes after all those tries to make it run, after that was working fine, this month i installed a new set of glow plugs bosch brand, valve calibration, liqui moly cleaning 2 cans, is working the best of all times doing 33 mpg highway, i dont have a way of heating the block, i cant do a lot mechanic work now i just need a way to make it start probably at 10 or 15 under 0, can i use starting fluid? I think i cant
I definitely wouldn't use starting fluid, flammable liquid going into red hot glow plugs can cause a premature boom. My car starts instantly at single digit temperatures.
Heres a few things to check, are your glow plugs actually working? for sure? How about timing? Fast timing causes hard starts.
Is your compression alright?
(12-25-2013, 05:47 PM)carlitosgy6 Hi, i live in florida and i travel for vacation to chicago.......Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?
Quote:.... this month..... liqui moly cleaning 2 cans....
(12-25-2013, 05:47 PM)carlitosgy6 Hi, i live in florida and i travel for vacation to chicago.......Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?
Quote:.... this month..... liqui moly cleaning 2 cans....
(12-25-2013, 06:05 PM)MFSuper90 I definitely wouldn't use starting fluid, flammable liquid going into red hot glow plugs can cause a premature boom. My car starts instantly at single digit temperatures.The glow plugs are working, what i can say is when i setup that pump i set it up at 27 degrees before, so its advanced, remember im far from my shop, i have regular tools, maybe i can retard the pump by eye but definitely not by drip, maybe i could try but i hate this weather
Heres a few things to check, are your glow plugs actually working? for sure? How about timing? Fast timing causes hard starts.
Is your compression alright?
(12-25-2013, 06:05 PM)MFSuper90 I definitely wouldn't use starting fluid, flammable liquid going into red hot glow plugs can cause a premature boom. My car starts instantly at single digit temperatures.The
Heres a few things to check, are your glow plugs actually working? for sure? How about timing? Fast timing causes hard starts.
Is your compression alright?
(12-25-2013, 07:01 PM)Volker407(12-25-2013, 05:47 PM)carlitosgy6 Hi, i live in florida and i travel for vacation to chicago.......Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?
If still summer-diesel or semi-winter-diesel add 20% gasoline to your tank.
summer-diesel clogs filters already at -2° Celcius
semi-winter-diesel clogs filters already at around -12° Celcius.
winter-diesel clogs filters at around -24° Celcius.
Quote:.... this month..... liqui moly cleaning 2 cans....
Is your fuel prefilter free of air bubbles?
Is your main fuel filter not clogged for sure? After 2 cans liqui moly cleaning you really should change it anyway!
Gruß
Volker
(12-25-2013, 06:05 PM)MFSuper90 I definitely wouldn't use starting fluid, flammable liquid going into red hot glow plugs can cause a premature boom. My car starts instantly at single digit temperatures.The glow plugs are working, what i can say is when i setup that pump i set it up at 27 degrees before, so its advanced, remember im far from my shop, i have regular tools, maybe i can retard the pump by eye but definitely not by drip, maybe i could try but i hate this weather
Heres a few things to check, are your glow plugs actually working? for sure? How about timing? Fast timing causes hard starts.
Is your compression alright?
(12-25-2013, 06:05 PM)MFSuper90 I definitely wouldn't use starting fluid, flammable liquid going into red hot glow plugs can cause a premature boom. My car starts instantly at single digit temperatures.The
Heres a few things to check, are your glow plugs actually working? for sure? How about timing? Fast timing causes hard starts.
Is your compression alright?
(12-25-2013, 07:01 PM)Volker407(12-25-2013, 05:47 PM)carlitosgy6 Hi, i live in florida and i travel for vacation to chicago.......Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?
If still summer-diesel or semi-winter-diesel add 20% gasoline to your tank.
summer-diesel clogs filters already at -2° Celcius
semi-winter-diesel clogs filters already at around -12° Celcius.
winter-diesel clogs filters at around -24° Celcius.
Quote:.... this month..... liqui moly cleaning 2 cans....
Is your fuel prefilter free of air bubbles?
Is your main fuel filter not clogged for sure? After 2 cans liqui moly cleaning you really should change it anyway!
Gruß
Volker
Up north all the pumps ought to be switched over to the winter blend. The first start of the day is always the hardest.
Do you have a block heater? A nice strong battery and maybe a second one to help jump it?
Need to get that cranking speed up to help fire it.
My truck has 2 batteries, one is the stock Ranger one, the other a big battery like the one that are used on trucks, tomorrow i will heat the pump, lines, injectors before cranking it, but i will check that timing, my worry is if this happened to me at 20 degrees i don't want to think what will happen at sub zero temps
Yes i have one but it doesn't have a harness, anyways i dont have nowhere to plug it in on the street
(12-25-2013, 07:01 PM)Volker407 Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?How much gasoline can you add to summer diesel? and what happens if you get to much? will you burn up the injectors?
If still summer-diesel or semi-winter-diesel add 20% gasoline to your tank.
(12-25-2013, 07:01 PM)Volker407 Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?How much gasoline can you add to summer diesel? and what happens if you get to much? will you burn up the injectors?
If still summer-diesel or semi-winter-diesel add 20% gasoline to your tank.
(12-25-2013, 07:10 PM)carlitosgy6 The glow plugs are working,
(12-25-2013, 07:10 PM)carlitosgy6 The glow plugs are working,
(12-26-2013, 03:35 AM)erling66(12-25-2013, 07:01 PM)Volker407 Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?How much gasoline can you add to summer diesel? and what happens if you get to much? will you burn up the injectors?
If still summer-diesel or semi-winter-diesel add 20% gasoline to your tank.
(12-26-2013, 03:35 AM)erling66(12-25-2013, 07:01 PM)Volker407 Do you have winter-diesel or still summer-diesel in your tank or a mixture of it?How much gasoline can you add to summer diesel? and what happens if you get to much? will you burn up the injectors?
If still summer-diesel or semi-winter-diesel add 20% gasoline to your tank.
I would never ever put gasoline in my diesel. The modern diesel is just so extremely thin and has very little lubrication. Good for common rail injection up to 2000 bar, but not for your old diesel.
The engine oil lubrication is only for the cam/lifter/governor ed. The plunjers rely on diesel lubrication.
I've seen an old buddy of my mixing 25% gasoline and it began to run bad recently. Guess what? The plunjers where worn out.
You could add more oil (I've run on waste engine oil for a year) to get the lubrication back.
I bet my money on a glow problem. However I've had a 617 which has a sticky rack. The rack would seize up and give a hard time starting (30sec full throttle) at minus 15 degrees.
The car I drive now has also problems with starting. It fires up immediately but runs very rough. So rough it sometimes stalls. This is because of the very advance injection timing it currently has.
I waited today until almost running out of diesel and filled up with chicago diesel, lets see how it work tomorrow morning, a new bosch glow plug can have this kind of issues? I tested for voltage on all plugs and they have, its weird becausethis morning i jumped the glow plugs for 5 minutes then cranked the engine for like a minute non stop, slowly taking up speed shaking like crazy until suddenly came to life
nice.
That cranking speed is a great part of the start vrs no start issue. More batteries == more better.
Another help maybe popping the hood and manually pumping the lift pump for a bit while glowing the plugs a few rounds. Block heater is a good help too but, if you have no outlet then I guess that's out of the question.
(12-27-2013, 01:33 AM)carlitosgy6 I waited today until almost running out of diesel and filled up with chicago diesel, lets see how it work tomorrow morning, a new bosch glow plug can have this kind of issues? I tested for voltage on all plugs and they have, its weird becausethis morning i jumped the glow plugs for 5 minutes then cranked the engine for like a minute non stop, slowly taking up speed shaking like crazy until suddenly came to life
(12-27-2013, 01:33 AM)carlitosgy6 I waited today until almost running out of diesel and filled up with chicago diesel, lets see how it work tomorrow morning, a new bosch glow plug can have this kind of issues? I tested for voltage on all plugs and they have, its weird becausethis morning i jumped the glow plugs for 5 minutes then cranked the engine for like a minute non stop, slowly taking up speed shaking like crazy until suddenly came to life
I used to drive 617 and my experience is that if it is hard to start when cold, it is the compression. When cranking a lot, you create friction heat and eventually it will start. You can use starting fluid, but you can also try any penetrating fluid(wd40) but find a can that gives a nice mist. Putting the injection timing closer to zero can also help, compression is higher and warmer up there.
Volker, thank you for useful advise I had to google "RTFM" and it made me laugh No such manual here in Norway, and if you ask in a Mercedes workshop, they will look at you as if you came from a different planet.
Here I get gasoline/diesel mix for free(people use the wrong pump and a workshop has to clean the tank) I weigh the fuel to find out how much gasoline or diesel. Then I mix this "mix" with WVO. Now I use ca 20% gasoline, ca 20% diesel and 60% WVO, but will try more gasoline now that it gets colder.
(12-26-2013, 01:28 PM)Tito I would never ever put gasoline in my diesel.
You could add more oil (I've run on waste engine oil for a year) to get the lubrication back.
(12-26-2013, 01:28 PM)Tito I would never ever put gasoline in my diesel.
You could add more oil (I've run on waste engine oil for a year) to get the lubrication back.
i have ran a 617 on almost pure hydraulic oil in the summer! A guy that had that car before me drove on cookingoil when the supermarket had a sale
Petroleum in the diesel.... I think i am on the No gasoline side here. How does that affect the bacteria in the tank issue? better or worse?
larsalan I guess I need to look at this stupid ass drip shit. What you have to like mess with those elements on the pump? What a fucking hassle. then use some wire to hold the throttle open or some shit?
Glow plugs
Valve adjustment
Antigel in with your fuel
Clean spin-on filter
No fuel line leaks (aka air leaks into fuel lines)
Battery and clean connections to get 500rpm
"purple wire mod" on the glowplug box if you want to make long glows easier
Proper start procedure-glow full minute, pump the pedal twice, and floor it while cranking. Once it starts to catch let off the pedal and only give it what it needs to idle at ~800rpm
larsalan I guess I need to look at this stupid ass drip shit. What you have to like mess with those elements on the pump? What a fucking hassle. then use some wire to hold the throttle open or some shit?
(12-31-2013, 11:48 AM)erling66(12-31-2013, 11:44 AM)Simpler=Better Proper start procedure-glow full minute, pump the pedal twice, and floor it while cranking.
Why pump the pedal?
larsalan I guess I need to look at this stupid ass drip shit. What you have to like mess with those elements on the pump? What a fucking hassle. then use some wire to hold the throttle open or some shit?
(12-31-2013, 11:48 AM)erling66(12-31-2013, 11:44 AM)Simpler=Better Proper start procedure-glow full minute, pump the pedal twice, and floor it while cranking.
Why pump the pedal?
larsalan I guess I need to look at this stupid ass drip shit. What you have to like mess with those elements on the pump? What a fucking hassle. then use some wire to hold the throttle open or some shit?
(12-30-2013, 07:34 PM)john Petroleum in the diesel.... I think i am on the No gasoline side here. How does that affect the bacteria in the tank issue? better or worse?
(12-30-2013, 07:34 PM)john Petroleum in the diesel.... I think i am on the No gasoline side here. How does that affect the bacteria in the tank issue? better or worse?
i changed the oil to 1o w 30,cranked faster but took almost the same time to start,,then i checked the glow plugs one by one and they got red very fast on the tip,i was running winter diesel,now im in Florida so i can do all the needed checks,compression is between 350-370 psi,but timing is 28 before,i think thats the problem,is better to leave it like that on florida?is better on mpg? on the trip from fl to tennesse did 33 mpg,going thru the mountains of tennesse it did 30 mpg