Question about the hot air trick - does a hot air gun
put out too much heat? I'd hate to fire up any oil or
other goop in the intake tract that the valve cover
breather throws in there.
I use a heat gun to start my Unimog in the winter.
It won't be _that_ hot by the time it gets to the
oily bits
Marshall Booth wrote:
Low compression is the most common cause in situations with all of the
symptoms you have, but if heat from the block heater (it DOES work
doesn't it?) should make starting faster. Heat is unlikely to improve a
fuel problem.
Marshall
I seem to have fallen asleep befo
> Don't waste your money on a hair dryer. Running hot
> air down the intake
> WON'T tell you if the glow plugs are insufficient!
> Even when the engine
> is hot and it's, 90 degrees F outside, properly
> working plugs should be
> allowed to glow for 5-10 seconds for optimal
> starting. Parallel
Fred Johnson wrote:
Thanks for everyones help. The consensus seems to be
glow plugs first. Didn't know that glow plugs
degraded. Therefore I'm off to the local big box
store to get a hair dryer. I'll point it down the
intake tract tomorrow morning and see if there's a
marked difference. If th
Thanks for everyones help. The consensus seems to be
glow plugs first. Didn't know that glow plugs
degraded. Therefore I'm off to the local big box
store to get a hair dryer. I'll point it down the
intake tract tomorrow morning and see if there's a
marked difference. If there's a difference in
Nothing wrong with the fuel delivery system except possibly really
nasty injectors -- if they don't make a nice mist when they fire, it's
not gonna start well.
I would suggest tesing the injectors and checking the valves -- tight
intakes in particular cause hard starts from low compression --
Jim Cathey wrote:
In a sense. If they're drawing proper current (55A) at all
they're not dead. The plugs themselves are very robust, and
I believe will outlast the parallel plugs by a considerable
degree. The connections to them, however, are vulnerable to
corrosion. Each plug should measur
much more than replacing the loops plugs. Loop plugs usually require
replacement every 75kmi or so (they become MUCH less effective as they
age). Parallel plugs usually last MORE than twice that long.
You may be right, I've had dead parallel plugs and not any dead
series plugs, but I've much mor
Different ambient temperature and plugging in the
block heater have not made a difference.
They do on my 240D.
I will usually glow the car twice then turn it over
between 2-3 minutes for 45 seconds at a time. While
this is going on a grayish cloud of semi burnt diesel
exits the tail pipe.
S
Fred Johnson wrote:
Over the past year it is becoming more and more
difficult to start my 240D first thing in the morning.
Different ambient temperature and plugging in the
block heater have not made a difference.
I have just recently looked into it and have replaced
the spin on fuel filter,
I would recommend calling Rusty and getting the newer parallel plugs
instead iof those old series plugs you have. The ones you have now give
up a lot of heat and are inefficient.
Yes, glow plugs degarde over time and yours seem to need replacing.
Check the footer of this email for Rusty's info
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Subject: [MBZ] Hard Starting 240D
> Over the past year it is becoming more and more
> difficult to start my 240D first thing in the morning.
> Different ambient temperature and plugging in t
Over the past year it is becoming more and more
difficult to start my 240D first thing in the morning.
Different ambient temperature and plugging in the
block heater have not made a difference.
I have just recently looked into it and have replaced
the spin on fuel filter, cleaned the in line fu
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