If your injectors are atomizing fuel and you have good compression the engine should fire. It takes air, atomized fuel at the right time, and compression to build the heat needed to fire the fuel. One of these you don’t have.
Poorly atomizing fuel will affect how easy it starts... also injectors firing into zero atmospheres is vastly different than firing into a piston with over 27 atmospheres of pressure
I dont feel like time working on equipment is a waste of time, I have seen people spend hours watching sports center, keeping horses, playing golf, watching TV, doing face space, slap chat, and have nothing in the end to show for it.
Likely the best thing I have read online in YEARS!!!!!!!!!
Hang in there. I knew basically NOTHING about diesels about 6 years ago, now I own 3ea 7.3 trucks and several diesel engines. I had the injectors out of my 97 F350 7.3 engine about 5 times in one summer just trying to get it right. Well worth the fight. Hang in there! These are simple machines. When that Case does run it will likely run for the rest of our lives. I have a 73 Case 350 dozer outside, that case engine runs like a hot rod...... fires right up with the bump of the key, these things are TOUGH!!!!!!!!!!
Your diesel engine MUST have enough RPM when cranking or it will never fire. Maybe post up a short video of this cranking when you get the pan back on....pictures and video can help these dudes internet mechanic big time.
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"It almost opens the hole all the way" post #36
I would revisit the fuel delivery set up again. My guess, you're bypassing to much fuel and not building enough pressure.
Remove the regulator assembly and turn that adjuster in to about halfway...... 45%- 50% Closed
Bleed the fuel system again, fire it up
Once you get it fired up, idle it only. Shut it down and fine tune it with a pressure gauge at bottom of pump below fuel delivery regulator and set pressure to specs with that same adjusting screw. Good Luck!