Originally Posted by DON OSO
I've never had a diesel till this year and i love my 671Detroit - all 4 cycles -

Please explain? Best I can tell a 6-71 is a two cycle engine....

Detroits are easy to restart after running out of fuel because of the injection system design. The fuel pump is low pressure, about 70 psi, and pumps lots pf fuel to the injectors, what the injectors don't use is returned to the tank along with any extra air in the system. The injector for each cylinder is it's own high pressure pump and operated by the cam shaft and a rocker arm. The fuel also cools the injectors, thus the reason for the high flow, about a gallon per minute at idle.
They start quick, usually just with a few times of cranking and waiting for the starter to cool a tad, once it fires it will run on all cylinders within a few seconds.

Grigg

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