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YOUR THOUGHTS ON STARTING A REBUILT DIESEL FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Posted by Ken McWilliams on October 19, 2000 at 17:53:40 from (205.188.195.41):
I'm finishing the rebuild on my Massey Ferguson with a Perkins AD4-203 diesel. The radiator will be back tomorrow and I have already the engine installed and all the linkages connected. I don't like to start a fresh engine without getting oil to everything first. When I put the pistons/rings/bearings back into the block, I oiled everything very well. The passages and oil filter, however, are yet to be filled. When I used to build race engines, I would put a socket on the hex drive of the oil pump before installing the distributor and turn it with a drill. I'd let it turn until oil was coming out of all the pushrods and formed puddles on the head. Since this Perkins diesel doesn't allow access to the oil pump as my gasoline race engine did in order to pump oil into the engine passages, how would you recommend starting the engine the first time? I've thought about taking out the injectors and turn the engine with the starter until I see oil coming out of the rockers. This tractor has an electric fuel pump, so I'll not pump fuel until the oil is flooding the passages. Once the engine is oiled, I'll connect the electric fuel pump and begin purging the injection system. Another way would to get oil pumped into the tractor's engine passages would be to pull it in high gear with my other tractor without the injectors installed. Spinning the motor without the injectors installed I thought would give the least resistance without compression, and would not overload the starter, or if pulling it avoid slipping the tires on soft earth or loose gravel. One way or the other, I'll pump oil into the passages, how would you do it? Also, should I use a good 10W30 oil or use an oil specifically formulated for diesel engines? Synthetic oil is out of the question and I don't want to start that debate here. Ken McWilliams
Dayton, OH
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