Ok, I drove my kids to school, no problem. I went to head to the dentist and she fired up and instantly died. Tried cycling the GP and starting and cranked tried starting till my batteries were too drained to spin fast enough to fire if she was going to catch. I was getting some smoke out the tailpipe while cranking. The engine oil is low, I don't know if these run an oil safety switch like SD's do. I learned that in my F550, stupid engine safety switch kills engine before your low oil light comes on. Anyways, any and all ideas will be helpful.

 

ice down your pump, more than likely the clearances are out on the head and pump rotor. Let it sit for a couple hours, then try, could also try icing the pump with a bag of ice, keep it off the head. Once you do this though, it will absolutely have to be replaced, just a temp fix for those who already know they have to get one (ask me how I know)

 

So if it wore out, letting it sit overnight would let the metal cool enough and shrink to work?

 

These pumps are prone to heat sinking, where the heat from the engine, transfers into the pump, and causes them to expand, I had this happen to me where if I was getting fuel at the gas station, I had to keep the truck running, other wise she would start for about 2 seconds then die on me, only way to get her running again was to crack open injector lines. Then it got to where I wasn't getting any fuel at all once it was hot. In short, yes, let it sit, if it starts up, I would save up $550 then buy a pensacoladiesel pump and injectors so you don't wear out the new pump you just bought

 

fuel shut off solenoid in Ip ?

 

Found two things out, I'm lucky, and I'm a dumb ***. I was about 1/2 full on the oil, thought I could go longer since I was running a SD oil filter instead of the regular one for an IDI. They hold more oil, so I was shooting for 7500 miles instead of the 5000 I usually go between oil changes. My dip stick always reads near full until after 3000 miles, and this time I noticed it was barely on the dipstick about a week ago, but we've been busy with baseball sign ups and 5 kid goats that have bad mamas, so we've been holding mamas so the kids get to eat. Beats bottle feeding. Changed my oil, jumped her and she fired right up. Drove around and she fires right up every time. Thanks dortiz and 4X4, but I won't need an IP just yet, but I'm sure soon.

 

Haven't had any problems with oil levels on mine yet gonna go out and check, its going on 8000 miles right now, going to see if I can get to 10,000

 

Good luck Dortiz, I'd love to go that far, haha, but I'm still using Dino oil, and she likes to mark her turf. I mean what truck wouldn't with 375,000+ miles. I'm sure it burning a bit of oil too. But it's hard to tell, like I said oil stays on the dipstick so long and I don't see any smoke unless I rev it up higher than 3000 or at night when someone's headlights are shining through.

 

I've got 180,000 miles on my IDI, and the only leak is a bad power steering haha

 

Ok… truck worked fine yesterday but today same **** as the other day, took kids to school no problem, went back out a Half hour later, no start little smoke out exhaust. Check the wires to my injection pump, front wire closest to the radiator heard a click remove the back wire nothing. Also noticed the last few months, once coldstart and really cold out I hear a loud popping for the first five seconds. Sounds like an exhaust leak I had on my old Chevy, but fades away in about five seconds.