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Jim: I have an 855 with 2000 hrs on it, and I never have to utilize the glow system above 20 degrees. I just hop on, start cranking, and it takes right off, including times when there has been frost on the hood. Correctly, you should not use ether and glow plugs. Having said that, if you did give it a snort of ether, and began cranking without pre-heating, it should have rattled to life. Any diesel I have have been around (70 D, 4020) snapped to with ether. I am concerned that the ether had no affect. Did anyone mess with the valve lash/timing ? Have you ever adjusted the valves ? Is the air filter completely clear ? Was the ether really getting to the intake ? How else would the ether have no affect? What was the ambient temp when you tried this last with ether ? Too cold for it to vaporize ? Also, on mine, there is a little trigger primer on the side of the pump (I'll verify this tonight). Use this to prime fuel to the pump. By now you know, but as a reminder, there is a bleed screw on the sediment/primary filter bowl, and one on the pump. The most thorough job of priming would also be to crack the injector nuts until fuel flows (and tighten them while it is turning :) ) But now I've got to tell you, that because of a short fuel pickup hose in the tank, and a teenage girl operator, mine has run out of fuel more times than I would care to admit. Seldom did I prime it, because since it is normally warm in my part of North Florida (winter gets down in the teens at times), we just crank 'er till she fires, and that isn't very long. It has been in my experience the easiest starter of all the dozen or so diesels I have owned, including cars (VW's, Tempo). BTW, is your tank full of fuel, is it clean, and is the hose on the fuel gauge sending unit attached ? There is also a little nylon screen down there that could possibly be clogged...worth a check ? As was mentioned, checked for any trouble in the pressure lines, or the return lines....you said you had the injectors cleaned, was the breaking pressure checked, or did someone just scrape off deposits from the outside of the nozzles ? Has the pump ever been removed ? Are you getting current to the plugs, and like someone mentioned, watch them glow OUTSIDE of the engine (I once had a VW Rabbit that checked good, but the plugs were just barely glowing as they had mostly eroded away). Or, pull the injectors, and watch the glow through the injector ports. I think there is a glow relay, and that would kill all power to the plugs, better verify it works, too. Give us more information, and as a group, I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this. What has the history on this machine been ? This tractor sounds like it has far too few hours on it to be acting so worn.
Frank-In-Tallahassee
70 D/855
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