After spending quite a bit of money and effort extracting the cylinder head from my MD2020 and sending it off for service (working thru a local diesel shop) and putting it all back together I am unable to start the engine. I had the local diesel mechanic out for a few hours and he to was unable to start the engine.
The original problem was that rather suddenly I lost power in the engine and noticed a black line (soot I think) in the exhaust. After another half hour of running it died even in idle, and I was unable to start. The mechanics around here all thought it was a head/valve problem with valve stem seal leakage. So I did the cylinder head extraction and work.
Now it has new valves, new injector nozzles, and lots of new little things and still won't start. Now the local gurus think it is injector timing. Some suggest I buy a new engine. Help! Is it really that hard to fix this thing? The local mechanic thinks it will be thousands of dollars more.
The original problem was that rather suddenly I lost power in the engine and noticed a black line (soot I think) in the exhaust. After another half hour of running it died even in idle, and I was unable to start. The mechanics around here all thought it was a head/valve problem with valve stem seal leakage. So I did the cylinder head extraction and work.
Now it has new valves, new injector nozzles, and lots of new little things and still won't start. Now the local gurus think it is injector timing. Some suggest I buy a new engine. Help! Is it really that hard to fix this thing? The local mechanic thinks it will be thousands of dollars more.