jasantos40
Well-known member
Hi, can you help out a newbie on diesel engine rebuild?
After finding out a bent rod I decided to replace the con rod, hone the cylinders and re-ring the 4 pistons with new new bearings.
Cranked the engine some turns without glow plugs to get out some of the excess oil on the piston crowns, installed glow plugs, cranked a bit without injector wiring to build some oil pressure without starting, plugged the injectors and it started.
One of my questions is, I know its normal some smoke at the first start, but i'm getting some injector deviation up to 2.99 -3.01, it's because the rings are being seated to do compression? The engine is quiet, no knockins, no weird noises, no smoke coming from the valve cover.
I haven't installed everything yet, still alternator belt and cooling system to install, had it running only for 30 secs.
After I get the alternator and the cooling system installed, I'm planning on leave it running until it gets to temp service, do you recommend to leave the car at higher rpms than idle? 2000rpms? As it's done with camshaft breaking?
After finding out a bent rod I decided to replace the con rod, hone the cylinders and re-ring the 4 pistons with new new bearings.
Cranked the engine some turns without glow plugs to get out some of the excess oil on the piston crowns, installed glow plugs, cranked a bit without injector wiring to build some oil pressure without starting, plugged the injectors and it started.
One of my questions is, I know its normal some smoke at the first start, but i'm getting some injector deviation up to 2.99 -3.01, it's because the rings are being seated to do compression? The engine is quiet, no knockins, no weird noises, no smoke coming from the valve cover.
I haven't installed everything yet, still alternator belt and cooling system to install, had it running only for 30 secs.
After I get the alternator and the cooling system installed, I'm planning on leave it running until it gets to temp service, do you recommend to leave the car at higher rpms than idle? 2000rpms? As it's done with camshaft breaking?