SuperDave
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Let me preface this with the fact that this is the first 6.0 I've ever done any real work to. So this truck was brought to me by a friend from work in a not running condition, he'd taken it somewhere to have an oil leak repaired where they replaced the oil cooler, EGR cooler and valve and valve cover gaskets. They never could get it to run afterwards. In an effort to get it to run they replaced the ficm, engine harness, glow plugs, harness and controller. It then came to me in all sorts of disarray, ficm not bolted down, new EGR just sitting in the hole no hardware or seals, degas bottle and hoses missing, ebp sensor missing, intake duct and airflow meter laying in the bed for who knows how long. I had him buy all the missing parts and hardware, put it all back together and started from square one. Found that I was only getting 275 psi from the hpop as per the icp reading. Tried the brand new icp laying in the seat, no change. Replaced the stand pipes and dummy plugs (motorcraft) the ipr(motorcraft) which came out in pieces and there were 2 screen assemblies in there together which took some doing to fish out and a number 6 injector because it was showing shorted on the scanner. I also did fuel filters and a new cap for the engine mounted filter because it leaked. When I finished all this it tried really hard to crank but all it would do was spit and smoke. Turned out all the injectors on the right bank were not connected correctly when the harness was installed and once I rectified that the engine immediately started and runs very well. The problem is when you start it cold it turns and turns for probably 20-25 seconds before firing, once it fires it runs very smoothly and does not falter. I have monitored the high pressure oil reading while cranking and within 3-5 seconds it has more than the 500 psi required and 8 seconds in it's 1150 or more I've never seen it go higher than 1500 during cranking and it stays around 1100 at idle. I have not driven the truck other than moving it around in the driveway because it still needs work but I have to figure out this long crank before I will return it to him I don't want it quitting again. Sorry for the long post but I'm fairly certain all the details are necessary to find the issue. Thanks