Recent content by eriksat1

I know for a fact low compression will cause very hard starting and rich blue diesel smoke like it was. Air, fuel, and compression, it should run. It is missing one of the 3. Unless something mechanical broke as far as injection pump or timing. I'll keep you posted. The machine has about 3,000...

It just seems to me that if I can't even get it to run for a few seconds on ether the fuel is not the problem? This is a old basic diesel engine the only thing electrical on it as far as the engine running or not is the shut off solenoid on the injection pump, and that is working ok. I agree on...

We have a old Bob Cat 753 at work it has been sitting for about 3 years not running because of a bad starter. We finally got a new starter put on charged up batterys and it started right up. I ran it about 15 mins. it seemed to be ok maybe smoking a bit much (blue smoke rich diesel smoke) They...