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Hard to start when engine warm after new injectors

7.7K views 26 replies 4 participants last post by  hedchange  
#1 ·
Hello,
I have new injectors installed but I am having some starting problems, and just seeking some input. It starts fine when engine is cold but the hotter the engine gets the harder it is to start. Glow plugs are working, I had a new high pressure oil pump and IPR last month. It was starting fine on the old injectors hot or cold with the new pump. Ever since the new injectors were installed it has been consistently hard to start when warm and has actually died a few times. I have good fuel pressure ( 60psi) HPOP reservoir is staying full. Good ICP voltage, batteries.

I keep coming back to the new HPOP and/or new IPR. Something wrong with one or both of those....

I am just out of ideas

Thanks,
 
#3 ·
I sent mine off to be rebuilt by a service in CA
 
#4 ·
Diesel Injectors So Cal, LLC. is who did them.
 
#7 ·
I have the Autoengunity tool with the enhanced Ford bundle. I have looked at what I know to check and all looks ok. What specifically should I be looking at and what should the values be? If one or more of the new injectors were bad I would see smoke from exhaust and I see none
 
#9 ·
Icp pressure to crank was right at 500. Icp pressure to start hot was almost 1000
 
#10 ·
I will try to upload the files from the tool. I am not sure what would be considered bad for the readings
 
#12 ·
Cold start file, driving file, for some reason it lost connectivity. A hot start file. Please let me know if anything stands out.

Thanks,
 

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#13 ·
The tool I am using does not have a specified IPR value to select so I had to guess as to what I thought it could be from the drop down list. it could be totally the wrong parameter.
 
#14 ·
When cold starts up right away, 1 to 2 sec max when hot took at least 5 maybe 6 to start
 
#16 ·
Can I graph the existing files with the tool? Have never tried that before
 
#17 ·
I could play back the files in AE but could not find a way to save with the graphs so I put some graphs in Excel The cold start I realized I forgot to add RPM and the driving file lost connectivity so very little data.
 

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#18 ·
I'm sorry, but I'm having a really hard time making sense of all that again...

So in the "Hot" .xls, line 39, it starts in 2secs (rpm goes from 198 to 700) then does it stall 40 seconds later or is that you turning off and restarting? Because it seems to build ICP quickly and restart in 3secs at line 305

And NONE of this says what it is that the IPR is having to do to control the ICP pressure (these two things go hand-in-hand and alone, not of much help). If the IPR is having to slam-shut to build those pressures then you have a problem. If not, things don't look so bad.

Go play around with your AE some, see if you can't get a graph of those 3. That will give us a picture of whether or not the HiPres Oil System is the cause.
 
#19 ·
The drop-down does not list anything that resembles IPR. Just ICP. Is it listed as something different in AE?
 
#21 ·
Injector pulse width, what does that mean or do? From what I am seeing I should be around 1.80 secs at idle. I am currently at0.0027 secs at idle and very little change to WOT
 
#22 ·
Forget PW (it the time the injector is "injecting").

We're looking for the scenario whereby the IPR % (duty cycle) is higher than it should be and causing an excess of cranking time until the ICP pressure is sufficient for the PCM to trigger the IDM to start the truck (and by your .xls's it doesn't look like that's the case). But a graph of the time it cranks & starts (as RPM will indicate) along with the ICP pres & IPR % should make that clear.

Also, if all you have is a 2-3 second Hot cranking time, while not ideal, isn't anything you need to get too excited about (unless it's getting worse...)
 
#23 ·
Sometimes it's longer, sometimes 5 when hot. I took a video of my screen while running trying to upload it. If one of the injectors leaking by on the oil side. Would that cause it?
 
#24 ·
An O-ring might have been damaged during the injector installation and causing a delay in building ICP pressure. But again, if this were the cause you'd see sub500psi ICP during that long crank (along with an IPR% of 50% or more as it struggled to get the pressure as high as it could to overcome that leak)
 
#26 ·
No, I have not been able to resolve it, have been working on other issues with the truck and trying to find suitable employment on top of that.