Turbo Diesel Cold Start

[peacedub]

and for the exhaust question.

a little bit of vapout usually comes out from the exhaust, today in the morning when 2 cyls fired it made a little bit of smoke.

[peacedub]

i pulled the glowplugs out tonight, they were a mess, first one was caked with oil and diesel? second one was chipped on the end and also covered in oil, third was very worn down on the end like a pencil, and the fourth had little chips on the end of it.

i also flushed all the water/coolant out it was brown in color.

what do ya think?

[trev]

New glow plugs for a start.

Check the torque specs for the install, and use a torque wrench!

Coolant. Flush the block out as best you can, flush out the rad, and the heater core too (garden hose in one end, bucket on the other) then use coolant properly mixed to handle cold weather per the instructions on the container.

Alternately, fill and drain the system with water a couple times (about as PITA as the other way to flush it) run the engine till warm then repeat. Either park it dry, or repeat several times, then fill with coolant like it should have had.

That'll be a start point anyways.

Cheers
  Trev

[peacedub]

getting new glow plugs tomorrow hopefully BOSCH

i cant ran the car at the moment, but ill do your garden hose method for sure.

i read the solar guy's thread, we seem to have different problems, my engine is old as *** its got 460000 and the PE didnt really take care of it, so it need a lot of work. Hopefully a rebuild in the near future, i just want to try to get it running for a start then see what to do. <diesel3

cheers.

[zukgod1]

Once you get the new Glow plugs installed things will go better. As long as you have compression/ fuel it will fire.. 

[cyrus #1]

Glow plugs that are worn as you described can be caused by poorly spraying injectors.  Definitely get them checked out if you plan on keeping the car.

[burn_your_money]

Glow plugs that are worn as you described can be caused by poorly spraying injectors.  Definitely get them checked out if you plan on keeping the car.

Yep. Injectors only get worse. They do eventually get so bad that the wear the end of the glowplug and then it goes bouncing around in the cylinder causing all sorts of problems.

I've actually seen it where it burned a hole in the precombustion area into the coolant passage. I didn't have a very good camera back then so I couldn't take a picture

[peacedub]

thanks everybody, i got some glowplugs that seem to be in good shape for PNP, im gonna try to start it today, will let you know how it goes.