"Lots of guys have at one time or another wanted to know how to adjust their Stanadyne DB2 fuel injection pump on an idi 6.9 or 7.3 diesel engine. It isn't really difficult to do, but I recommend not messing with the stock setting unless you have a pyrometer. It doesn't take much to overfuel a stock naturally aspirated engine, often with disastrous results.
Safety as always is important. On that note, probably the first thing one should do would be to disconnect the batteries, to ensure there is no power to the pump, or at least remove the wires so that if/when you rotate the engine, it will not start. The adjustment screw lives within the pump, but can be accessed through a little door on the passenger side of the pump. It is triangular in shape, and is held in place with 2 small bolts, and a gasket underneath to seal it. It looks like this.You will want to have either a shallow dish or a bunch of rags under the pump when you remove the plate, as about a pint of diesel fuel will spill when the plate comes off. The next thing to do is to turn the engine to align the adjustment screw internally. This can be done one of two ways that I know of. 1. You must put a large socket (15/16'ths) on the bolt on the front of the crank pulley. Rotate the engine till the timing mark on the vibration damper is at about the 1 o'clock position as seen from the front of the engine. This should line up the insides of the pump so that the adjustment screw will appear in the opening behind where the cover plate was on the pump. Since the crank turns twice for each one rotation of the injection pump however, you may get the timing mark to the 1 o'clock position and still not be able to see the adjustment screw inside the pump. It would look like this. (A small dental type mirror may help to see inside the pump here because of the angles etc)... If you look in and cannot see the adjustment allen screw, you must rotate the engine 360 deg. or one full rotation clockwise, till the mark again lines up at about the 1 o'clock position, and then you should be able to see the screw, and it should look like this. The other way to align the pump, is to take the cover off of the front of the injection pump cover housing. Inside this is the bolts that hold the injection pump timing gear onto the pump. There is also an alignment dowel. If you rotate the engine till this alignment dowel is at exactly the 12 o'clock position, then the adjustment screw will be visible through the opening behind the cover plate. Here's a pic of the opening and the dowel, but with the gear-to-pump bolts removed, and the dowel is at the 4 o'clock position instead of the 12 o'clock. Ok, now, all that is required is to get a good quality allen wrench which fits the adjustment screw(5/32) in size. The adjustment screw has locking threads, so make sure you have a good wrench, 'cause you don't want to damage this one or drop little bits of metal shavings inside your pump. To increase the fuel setting, it is generally recommended to go in small increments. Usually 60 deg. rotation, which is about the same as turning the wrench one flat, or 1/6'th of a turn. Clockwise will increase the fuel setting, counterclockwise will decrease the fuel setting. Put the cover plate back on, being careful not to overtighten the little bolts, replace the wires on the pump, and go for a run to see how it goes. Don't forget to watch that pyrometer!! Good luck with it." quoted from a website, brought to you by me, Logan. -

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great info Logan.... how do you come up with all this stuff.... -

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i found a page that had how to turn up about every domestic mechanical diesel motor out there, thats where they all came from in the Big Rig section, and in these sections, the mercedes stuff i just looked on google. -

can you put a 84 diesel motor in a 94 diesel truck -

why would you want to replace a 7.3l with a 6.9l? -

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i just to use the block the motor in the 94 truck is crack i have a block in the 84 ford truck will it work -

well that would be a good reason -

will the block work yes or no -

I believe so. I had a guy put one in an old tow truck years ago. -

Great Info there Logan Thanks ! -

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Great Post! -

i was wondering what a safe exhaust temperature would be for my 93 non-turbo. i dont want to put in too much fuel and end up burning holes in my pistons. -

I followed every step except getting the pyrometer and it worked great. it was pretty easy to do with some help from a buddy. i can feel the power gain on the hills and it blows black smoke. -

so how much smoke did it blow. how bad did it hurt your fuel economy?? -

Yes a 6.9 block and 7.3 block will interchange. And the 7.3 block is better cause it has stronger cylinder walls. And i also turned up the injectioin pump in my truck. i liked the gain, and yes it does blow a little bit more smoke. But its sweet! -

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