I got the truck out of New Mexico a few weeks ago. Truck has 177,xxx miles on it. It does not like to start when its cold unless its plugged in. Its even worse if I let it sit for a day without driving it.
I checked out the GP system, the GP's check out good, as does the wiring.
Today I tried to pay more attention. When I had my 95 7.3, when it had poor glow plugs, it would crank,crank and crank, but when it did start it would chug and blow white smoke for a few seconds.
This truck when it finally started today, barely smoked anything and ran very very smooth.
After it starts up in the morning, it is fine for the rest of the day. A lot of people have said injectors, but before I go drop $1200 on injectors, I want to see if there is anything else I should look for.
I recently acquired a scanner, and it will allow me to do a buzz test, and I believe I should be able to look at ICP and what not.
The truck gets about 15mpg around town, haven't really had it on the highway yet. Once this thing runs, it runs great, idles awesome, best idling 7.3 I have seen in a while, its fairly quite for what it is. I love this thing, just want to get he hard start figured out so I can then start the fun mods. Don't want to mask one issue with another.
Thanks
I checked out the GP system, the GP's check out good, as does the wiring.
Today I tried to pay more attention. When I had my 95 7.3, when it had poor glow plugs, it would crank,crank and crank, but when it did start it would chug and blow white smoke for a few seconds.
This truck when it finally started today, barely smoked anything and ran very very smooth.
After it starts up in the morning, it is fine for the rest of the day. A lot of people have said injectors, but before I go drop $1200 on injectors, I want to see if there is anything else I should look for.
I recently acquired a scanner, and it will allow me to do a buzz test, and I believe I should be able to look at ICP and what not.
The truck gets about 15mpg around town, haven't really had it on the highway yet. Once this thing runs, it runs great, idles awesome, best idling 7.3 I have seen in a while, its fairly quite for what it is. I love this thing, just want to get he hard start figured out so I can then start the fun mods. Don't want to mask one issue with another.
Thanks