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Message: [QUOTE="Matt_P, post: 303209, member: 277"] Just a quick update, Ive been working the past couple days on getting the engine running. I picked up -10 an stainless braided line and ran my trans cooler lines with it, got my throttle linkage all mounted up. Then I hooked battery cables up and ground from the engine to the frame and filled it up with fuel and all other fluids minus coolant and got the truck ready to fire. The airdog primed good and ran fuel right to the injectors when I cracked the lines. I build 50psi of oil pressure while cranking and it cranked real nice so everything was looking good. We got it to fire for a second on ether, but the battery charger was real weak and Im just attempting to fire it on a single battery for the time being. Then it fired again for a second without ether and when I went to crank again it wasnt starting and then the battery charger took a dump. So I went and bought a brand new battery charger and attempted to fire it and all it would do is crank, still building good oil pressure, good fuel to the injection pump, and fuel to all the injectors when I cracked the lines. Everything was pointing to good. So we though maybe it jumped timing. I pulled the first two injectors back out to make sure everything looked good which it did, then while I had the first one out I made sure #1 was back at TDC. I pulled the front cover back off to pull off the pump gear and after I got the nut off I went to put the gear pulled on and it literally just fell off. So there is problem 1, dont think that nut was torqued to 180 ft/lbs LOL and the little mark on the pump shaft looked way off what it would have been set at for 21* so pretty positive it jumped timing a lot. So right now Im waiting on the timing kit I just bought to show up. I also pulled out the overflow valve and found that the two viton washers for that were all torn up and the threads for the valve had been previously helicoiled as well. So I went and picked up new washers today. Hopefully it will fire next week, sounded good for the second it fired LOL [/QUOTE]