RalphVa
Super Member
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2003
- Messages
- 7,885
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Tractor
- JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
I'd check/replace your glow plugs or other preheating device it has. Our 1983 240D Benz that we kept for 25 years needed to have a couple glow plugs replaced at somewhere around 150k miles.Anyone know what might cause my TC33D to only be able to cold start with a (small) shot of ether for diesels. If I use it and shut it down it will fire right back up but sitting overnight it will just crank. Its been this way for a year and a half almost. Tractor runs great other than that, I can rule out fuel filters, fuel, regular maintenance things because it has gone on so long and I maintain as scheduled with mostly New Holland parts.. I have owned it since new, probably 13 to 14 years. It has 1200 Hours, no warning lights on dash
All diesels we've ever owned only require about 1/2 turn of the crankshaft hot or cold to start if everything is working right. One thing I've always liked about them.