Luther wrote:
Ok, so it's an old subject, but Kaleb's posted the question to me several times about the cold starting on this car. This morning it was 13 degrees when I left for work. Glowed for 15 seconds (counted by the ticking of the dash clock) and turned the starter right after the glow light went out for 1-1.5 seconds, and it fired up and began to idle at 600 rpm (without any throttle assistance), nearly as smooth as glass. It only missed once after about 3 seconds of idling. This car has Delo 400 in the crank and NOT Mobile 1 like my SD which can be a tad more rough to start when it's that cold. Sounds to me like the compression is ok. I am seeing a small amount of oil in the vacuum lines and have parts from Rusty to rebuild the vacuum pump. Though I still cannot see how 1 qt every 300 miles can disappear through just the vacuum system.....
Figure out where the vacuum pump exhaust goes (into the air filter? in most 123s diesels I think) and that's where a bad vacuum pump sends most of the oil.
Marshall -- Marshall Booth Ph.D. Ass't Prof. (ret.) Univ of Pittsburgh School of Medicine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
