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Old Fri, January 1st, 2010, 03:38 AM
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thanks for the info I will get the truck on a code reader tommarow and see what I come up with.

I think I have a bad Magnet. Or I may have a loose armature plate (my gut feeling) I did shim all the armature plates .002 and 2 on the left bank .004, I lost a few of the .002 shims. I did not locktite or use new magnet plate screws.

If any one is woundering why I did this, it is because the truck would not start cold, even on a hot summer day. The reason was because the poppet valve (did I say that right?) were so worn (4.88 gears x 260,000 miles + many pto hours = zillions of injector cycles. I think?). Anyway acording to Rosewood Diesel the gap under Armature/magnet plate needs to be between .004" and .002", needless too say on this truck there was zero gap at room temp and almost .0015" at 180 degrees engine temp and at normal operating temp the truck started and ran fine.

Instead of removing the injectors. breaking them down and Machining the injector body, I came up with the idea of shiming up the armature. After a week of hunting around I was able to come up with 6.9/7.3 idi injector shims in .002" and .004". I installed them with out pulling the injectors, but like I said I missplaced a few of the .002" and had to use .004" on two injectors on the left side, so maybe the armature is hitting the solenoid?

I will read the codes and take the solenoids off the left bank injectors and see what I come up with.

I have a set of low mileage single shot injectors I want to put in this truck but I need to get a single shot program first.
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