Igearhed
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I'm Jeff, long time troll, first time posting. My buddy and I went in halves on a 69 multifuel. We are both euro car mechanics, and no stranger to diesels, just on a much smaller scale. We have had her for about 2 years now, and occasionally park her at our shop for a couple weeks, sometimes a month. Never had a problem doing this...till now.
Showed up for work Friday morning and heard my low air buzzer going off. Walked over to find that some upstanding member of my community had crawled through the Deuce. No harm done, except the accessory switch had been left on. Luckily we had installed a starter kill switch for security, but the accessory switch still powers everything up. Including our brand new in-tank fuel pump. Don't know how long the switch had been on, but it was long enough to all but kill the batteries.
After charging the batteries, and long story short (taking runaway precautions, and clearing the cylinders ect.) we got her running.....but with a miss on one cylinder. Being Friday after work, and so mad at the situation we decided to leave it alone for the weekend. Of course we removed battery cables to prevent this from happening again before we can get a chance to work on her. As busy as we both are, who knows how long it will be before we have a free minute to go diagnose our miss.
So with nothing to do but speculate (for now) who wants to help me do just that? What about pumping the cylinders full of fuel for who knows how long will cause a miss? Our fuel tank was full of used motor oil (one of the many perks of being an auto tech, and owning a multifuel ). Of course our crankcase is over full now, on my week old oil change, just to add insult to injury. So, ideas, comments, suggestions, and the never ending hindsight that always ensues, why do I have a single cylinder miss after my accessory switch was left on overnight?
Showed up for work Friday morning and heard my low air buzzer going off. Walked over to find that some upstanding member of my community had crawled through the Deuce. No harm done, except the accessory switch had been left on. Luckily we had installed a starter kill switch for security, but the accessory switch still powers everything up. Including our brand new in-tank fuel pump. Don't know how long the switch had been on, but it was long enough to all but kill the batteries.
After charging the batteries, and long story short (taking runaway precautions, and clearing the cylinders ect.) we got her running.....but with a miss on one cylinder. Being Friday after work, and so mad at the situation we decided to leave it alone for the weekend. Of course we removed battery cables to prevent this from happening again before we can get a chance to work on her. As busy as we both are, who knows how long it will be before we have a free minute to go diagnose our miss.
So with nothing to do but speculate (for now) who wants to help me do just that? What about pumping the cylinders full of fuel for who knows how long will cause a miss? Our fuel tank was full of used motor oil (one of the many perks of being an auto tech, and owning a multifuel ). Of course our crankcase is over full now, on my week old oil change, just to add insult to injury. So, ideas, comments, suggestions, and the never ending hindsight that always ensues, why do I have a single cylinder miss after my accessory switch was left on overnight?