What was temp outside when starting? On a warm summer day it probably should start slightly better than that... but not a lot. This is life with an old diesel... they are hard to start, smoke on cold starts, and make the neighbours nervous...
Ah... vintage 3B's. This is the extremely narrow topic on which I am a world leading expert. I've been wrenching on these engines since the 90's. Owned several, rebuilt a few. driven many 100's of thouhsands of kms on as far back as 1987.
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