Cummins 4bt into my FJ60

[Wyoming]

It Runs! Sounds great. We cracked the injection lines one at a time while cranking the engine and first it coughed, then it sputtered and then it cought. I was grinning from ear to ear.

The manual says not to idle it for longer than 5 minutes at a time while breaking it in, so I didn't. I did start it a third time to get the video of it running on my I-phone. Can anyone tell me how to share it with you guys?

After getting the video, it started to hesitate when I gave it fuel and then it died and would not start again. Do the injectors need to be blead again? Anyone?

 

[Wyoming]

Also, how do you bleed the !@#$%^& clutch slave cylinder? I bought a new one and installed it while I was doing everything else and I can't get the air our of it.

 

[Wyoming]

Okay, the video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tR0U6nmc3Q&feature=youtu.be

Check it out!

 

[sk8salomon]

Sounds great! It took me and a buddy to bleed my slave. Him pumping clutch pedal, me underneath with wrench.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

BADASS!!!

Try cracking the injection lines again to bleed air out.

Have sufficient diesel in the tank?

By the way, use the 'youtube' brackets to embed youtube videos:

 

[Elbert]

good news....

 

[The Phoenician]

It sounds great. You listening to it just made my morning.

 

[cullmancruiser]

Congratulations! It sounds great. I remember how great I felt when I finally fired mine up the first time.
The sputtering and dying out is probably a fuel starvation issue. Normally, once they're running they don't lose their prime. You probably have a restriction in the fuel system somewhere or are possibly sucking air into the line. Is there enough fuel in the tank? Restrictions and air leaks can be a pain to track down.

 

[doug720]

Looks and even better, sounds good! Congratulations.

Second about the fuel system and possible sucking air. I installed twin 5.9's in my boat and had simil;ar issues on start up. Fuel connections are a likely culprit for starting issues as there are so many places to suck air, filters. clamps, etc., and all it takes in loose clamp.

Good job.

DOug

 

[Wyoming]

Sounds great! It took me and a buddy to bleed my slave. Him pumping clutch pedal, me underneath with wrench.

Thanks. Yeah, that's what we were doing, but I may have been using the wrong process.

BADASS!!!

Try cracking the injection lines again to bleed air out.

Have sufficient diesel in the tank?

By the way, use the 'youtube' brackets to embed youtube videos:

Thanks - and thanks for the youtube embed. I will try bleeding the lines again. I thought I read someplace that I might have to do it several times.

good news....

Thanks Elbert, but what are the "...." for? Lol

It sounds great. You listening to it just made my morning.

I knew you would get a kick out of it. It's no D4D, but it is music to my ears. I just want to get the clutch slave working so that I can move it on it's own power tonight, Then I can button up all the little things.

Congratulations! It sounds great. I remember how great I felt when I finally fired mine up the first time.
The sputtering and dying out is probably a fuel starvation issue. Normally, once they're running they don't lose their prime. You probably have a restriction in the fuel system somewhere or are possibly sucking air into the line. Is there enough fuel in the tank? Restrictions and air leaks can be a pain to track down.

Thanks Cullman! You know I couldn't have done it without you. I couldn't have done it without a lot of the guys here, but you were always there in a tight spot.

Looks and even better, sounds good! Congratulations.

Second about the fuel system and possible sucking air. I installed twin 5.9's in my boat and had simil;ar issues on start up. Fuel connections are a likely culprit for starting issues as there are so many places to suck air, filters. clamps, etc., and all it takes in loose clamp.

Good job.

DOug

Thanks Doug. My work is not near as nice as yours, but it will do for me.

Thanks to everyone who had a hand in this. Dave with parts suggestions, J with welding advice (Don't do that), ISBJ60 with parts, and all others that guided me. Just thanks.

 

[davegonz]

Awesome. Glad you got it going.

 

[isbj60]

Congrats, man. It sounds super. Quieter than I was expecting, honestly.

 

[Wyoming]

Congrats, man. It sounds super. Quieter than I was expecting, honestly.

Yeah, for all the warnings I was getting about how loud it was going to be, I'm really happy with the level of sound. It's no Lexus, but I like the sound a lot. It sounds like a diesel should.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Yeah, for all the warnings I was getting about how loud it was going to be, I'm really happy with the level of sound. It's no Lexus, but I like the sound a lot. It sounds like a diesel should.

Hell Yeah... that first fire is awesome isn't it. Good job I-man.

J

 

[Wyoming]

WTF...I mean WTF!!!!! Messed with this thing all day and it will not get fuel to the injectors. I put in a new lift pump and the darn system will NOT pull fuel from the tank. All fittings are solid, all clamps are tight. There is no, I repeat, no !@#$%%^& air leak into the lines.

Is the lift pump not sufficient to prime the system? Do I have to have more than five gallons of diesel in the tank? It's reading on the guage just above empty. I rebuilt the lines into the tank a few years ago for the 383 stroker. So, they are plenty big enough to handle the job.

This is not a little air getting into the system, this is a total failure to pull any fuel from the tank by the lift pump. It has a hand prime button, nothing. Does the lift pump itself have to be primed?

What I don't understand is why it worked on Thursday night and today, total failure. Grrrrr....

 

[Kief]

I would blow some air into your tank through the lines before the filter and listen for bubbling. Is the tank vented well? Filter OK?

 

[isbj60]

Unhook the suction line to the p7100 and give it a short, unrestricted supply of clean diesel. The p7100 can draw it's own suction for a while without damage. Use a cheap inline filter. Place the bucket above the pump to aid priming. This will tell you which way to focus your attention. Fuel supply, or p7100 and farther downstream. If it is the supply, disconnect at the tank and repeat. Then narrow it down.

Maybe post up some specifics of the supply, like line size, routing, lift pump brand, model, location, fuel filter brand, type, and location. Might help us armchair quarterbacks a bit.

 

[doug720]

One issue to consider is crud! ULSD is a solvent and melts old hard deposits in fuel tanks and lines. Here in SoCal, there were many cases of blocked fuel pu's, lines and filters after the switch to ULSD.


I had to cle4an my filters and lines a few weeks after my swap due to this brown goo that I found in the clear bowl of my primary fuel filter.

All the above tests are good to try and in a good order imo.

Hope it's an easy fix.

Doug

 

[StevoJonesFJ60]

The P7100 doesn't happen to have a fuel cutoff solenoid like the VE pump does it?

I totally forgot about hooking that up on my engine and it wouldn't fire up.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Divide and conquer my friend.