I can't say if it's bad or not but I've done it a few times with mine. You better have somethin awful heavy to pull it with though. I used a tractor and 3rd gear in the truck myself.

 

Well My brother in law has a 07 cummins 4x4 it should do it. But for an update when I went to work the power bumped and tripped my power going to the block heater and charger. But I hooked it back up and after awhile of playing I got it to sputter once. Couldn't get it to do it again. Sounded like one cylinder fired once just enough to give me hope. Then it got dark out and right now it's 8 oclock and 18 degrees out so I got it plugged in and chargin hopefully it will thaw out mid day and will come to life.

 

Ouch, one thing I have done to semis in the past, is pull the fuel filter, drain out the housing and reprime the sucker with half diesel and half howes (pick your poison on the additive) Sounds to me like you might really want to think about dropping your oil and getting some winter blend in if it is that hard to crank. It can make the difference in starting and not sometimes. Good Luck!

 

So no luck haven't got a sputter or nothing it dropped to 16 last night and truck is toasty warm plugged in batteries charged it turns over awesome plugged in but not a sputter or anything today. Am I missing something. I think I may have a tiny small leak and fuel drained down while I was gone and it's too cold to get primed good or something????? I got some cetane boost this evening when in town will dump some in tomorrow and bleed the lines out. Maybe I got a bad batch of fuel.

 

If you got water in that fuel it may be turned to ice someplace in the fuel lines but that wouldn't stop it from turnin over.

I would start with a volt meter myself with the batteries but pull the cables to separate them so your testing each one individually, then to the alternator and from there to the starter.

Sounds to me like your batteries are either shot or you have a bad ground to them. The batteries may test out fine sittin there also but die out under load so you may need to pull them and take em someplace to have them tested under a load.

 

How far down in NM are you? or where did you get fuel last I know that when I was driving trucks I got fuel in Albq. NM and came up to CO, and the next morning went out to start my truck and the fuel had gelled on me had to put the power service stuff in the tank and replaced the fuel filters and poured some in the filters with some diesel and finally got it to go. I know not all of the fuel in central and southern NM dont blend their fuel or as heavy as most places like in CO. Sounds to me like you have gelled up fuel I would replace the FF and add some Power service anti gel to it along with some fuel preferably some winter blend fuel and then put some of the power svc in the tank as well.

 

The truck would still crank strong if it were a fuel problem though, not that this may not be an additional problem but somethin is stopping the motor from cranking over dependably.

 

OK I still can't get it to fire it is cranking great I replaced one battery I pulled off the main fuel line and turned on the pump and it pumps great got fuel everywhere. Left it pumping and hooked it back up to the vp. Bled the injectors again and got good fuel out and still can't get a sputter. I tried resetting the computer and no change either. It has warmed up considerably it is 50 out today. I am beyond confused unless my vp ain't putting out enough pressure or my injectors are clogged?????? oh ya and I'm in southern NM 80 miles north of el paso

 

Guess we just have to assume that the cold weather and this happening at the same time is nothin but a coincidence then. Back to basics. Need to check for codes on it somehow, hopefully you have access to a code reader.

Typically speaking if this were an injector or VP problem you would have been noticing problems for a while, they tend to go bad over time and not just quite all at once. Not that they can't just stop working but not very common.

 

I would suspect the VP44 is bad, could be an issue with the injectors though...
When you crank, does the tach register the RPM's?