welcome to owning a first gen..... the fun never stops, our cummins dealer didn't even think anyone still owned a VE truck let alone wanted to make power from it

 

did you get a low pressure?

 

i had the exact same problem last summer i was coming home with a load of feed and it startted smoking when i was coasting to a stop light butt my truck died thought i was low on some petro chemical so i filled up and cracked all the injectors to get air out of the lines putt them back on and it started and ran like a champ for about a week then it did the same thing butt about every 2 or 3 miles all the way home. i figured it was the injector pump so i sent it in and got a new pump installed it and it still wouldnt start. please keep in mind i was 16 and didnt know anything about diesels, replaced fuel lines, dropped the tank and cleand it still nothing, soo i asked my friend that had the exact same kinda truck as me and he said i shoulda just checked the lift pump before anything turns out he was right if i had replaced the lift pump the first time it died i wouldnt of had to spend 1800 bucks on a new ip, you can get a lift pump at your local discount or orileyys for 35 dollars pretty cheap comparrison

 

Well I changed the lift pump and now have 8psi after the filter and the truck still smokes white won't rev up above 1000 rpms and the piro jumps to 600, 800 when trying to rev.

Still need help.
Timing? what else can go wrong.

 

head gasket?

 

the never ending broken truck.

I had it running till thursday when I broke the shaft off the head in the injection pump. shops cause was water in the fuel. waiting on parts again.

how do I get all the water out of my tank?

original problem was a lift pump. secondary i installed the pump one tooth off because the bosch dealer did not lock the pump at TDC.