6.5 turbo diesel hard starting
My SIL's '93 GMC has a new 6.5 turbo diesel in it. The engine runs perfect once it starts but if it's left sitting over night it often requires a lot of cranking and blowing white smoke before it star...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
4x4 you can do what Cummins said or if you don't have a test light you can just take a wire and go from the + on the battery and just scratch the unplugged plug end. If it's good it will spark. If not, it's dead.
If your getting white smoke it's not going to be a fuel deal.
BTW when I changed my GP controller to a Napa brand it won't heat the plugs long enough. :M IOW's the Napa controller is junk. To get around this and not spend another 100 bucks I double glow it in the mornings.
Might be the wrong controller...I think the newer (electronic) 6.5's had shorter glow-plug cycles. My wife's Blazer also short-cycles the glow plugs...but I'd rather have to cycle them twice in cold weather than run them longer when not needed. (It's easier on the plugs.)
