Starting a 19J that has stood for a coupe of years

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Tomorrow I plan to try and wake up a 19J engine in a 1988 90 which has stood for a bit over two years.

I was planning on fresh oil, a fresh battery, drain the fuel filter, check the glow plugs, and manually prime the pump.

Does anyone know of any particular quirks of this engine, or have any extra checks to suggest?

Many thanks!

Sam
 
Keep yer eye on it as well cause it'll disappear in a cloud of blue smoke:)
 
Give it a good 30 seconds or so on the glow plugs. If it has a glow plug timer installed, give it two or three cycles. Do NOT touch the throttle peddle whilst you are cranking the engine. The injection pump has a cold start mechanism that advances the injection timing and over-fuels for cold starts but it only engages with the throttle fully disengaged. Once the engine has shown signs of life or started to pick up, give it some throttle to help it along. Try and avoid substances like easy start, it's cheating (although it works a treat).

-Tom
 
Shifty1962 said:
I'm gonna risk being hung drawn and quartered by suggesting a squirt of EASYSTART or brake cleaner into the inlet manifold jusyt to get it going.
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+1 for easystart
get it cranking over first though to get some oil up and have someone spray a bit in now and again till it runs freely, you can tell when its going on its own cause it'll smoke
 
personnally, after standing for 2 years, i would give the rings a chance to free up by lubricating the bores and allowing them to soak for a couple of days. i wouldnt go changeing oil or diesel in case you start adding more potential problems. You will need a good battery.

1)Pull the glow plugs and squirt some oil into the chambers, leave for a couple of days.
2)squirt more oil into the chambers
3)Disconnect the wire to the fuel solenoid on the diesel pump
4)spin the engine over for a couple of minutes on the starter to allow oil to circulate
5)refit glow plugs and connect fuel solenoid
6)Now try starting. Give it at least 30 seconds of heat on the glow plugs.If it starts let it run for a couple of minutes only and then , if you are happy with it, change fuel and oil filters, and if its been lying up outside, drain and fill fresh diesel.
GOOD LUCK
 
Stick some clean diesel in it and prime, I wouldn't bother with anything else, obviously a good battery.

Give it some glows as normal and turn the key. No point in giving it heaps of glow as it possibly won't start, if there is diesel up to the injectors it will fire though. If you wish to turn it over, do so on the starter with the fuel solenoid pulled off to circulate some oil. Doing so by hand won't pump enough oil as it's too slow.

Once it starts let it come up to temp.

Change oil AFTER you know that the engine is okay.
 
joeyb said:
personnally, after standing for 2 years, i would give the rings a chance to free up by lubricating the bores and allowing them to soak for a couple of days. i wouldnt go changeing oil or diesel in case you start adding more potential problems. You will need a good battery.

1)Pull the glow plugs and squirt some oil into the chambers, leave for a couple of days.
2)squirt more oil into the chambers
3)Disconnect the wire to the fuel solenoid on the diesel pump
4)spin the engine over for a couple of minutes on the starter to allow oil to circulate
5)refit glow plugs and connect fuel solenoid
6)Now try starting. Give it at least 30 seconds of heat on the glow plugs.If it starts let it run for a couple of minutes only and then , if you are happy with it, change fuel and oil filters, and if its been lying up outside, drain and fill fresh diesel.
GOOD LUCK
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For a Petrol maybe. But for a diesel I wouldn't bother as there will have been seepage of either diesel thru the injectors into the bores or oil thru the Valve stem oil seals. Si the bores should be pretty well lubed up anyway.

Just Crank the fooker over and see what happens. Once it's running, he's gonna want to replace it with a TDi engine anyway.. :rolleyes:
 
CountJimmy said:
Tomorrow I plan to try and wake up a 19J engine in a 1988 90 which has stood for a bit over two years.

I was planning on fresh oil, a fresh battery, drain the fuel filter, check the glow plugs, and manually prime the pump.

Does anyone know of any particular quirks of this engine, or have any extra checks to suggest?

Many thanks!

Sam
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So did it start?
 
My 200tdi stood idle for almost a year. I charged the battery overnight, gave it an oil change which was due anyway, connected it up and cranked the engine over a few times and it fired up. A few days later I had to change the fuel filter and I did drain the tank . If I was doing it again, straight after it fired up I would change the fuel filter and drain the tank.
 
It started!
Thanks for the advice. Decided to top up the oil as it hadn't been changed long before being parked, new battery - he had a woefully under-spec-ed one on him. Drained the fuel filter, checked the glow plugs, primed the fuel pump and circulated the oil.
Cranked him over a few times and eventually life! Not too much smoke from the exhaust - was quite surprised! Nasty stinky smoke came off the starter motor- after a while this stopped- think it was just a few years of cack burning off. Managed to get him into gear and rolling- this freed off the handbrake which was seized on. Gear linkages need "some" work- it was like using a piece of spaghetti in soup to select a gear. Hopefully can get him trailered to the storage unit and start the project now.
Cheers for the advice! Sam
 
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