{"id":262,"date":"2018-03-09T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T23:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-03-10T20:18:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T04:18:38","slug":"starting-a-6-9-7-3-idi-engine-on-a-stand-step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/fuel-system\/starting-a-6-9-7-3-idi-engine-on-a-stand-step-by-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a 6.9 \/ 7.3 IDI Engine on a Stand, Step-by-Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jiobj-XSD7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the information is relayed in the video.\u00a0 Also, I just don&#8217;t have the energy at the moment to re-write the whole thing that is captured in the movie.\u00a0 So I highly recommend watching the clip.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows me starting my 7.3 IDI engine on a stand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/engine\/7-3-idi-crank-rod-bearing-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after several late nights of painstakingly rebuilding it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All I can really say is, most of things I did, I DO NOT recommend.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have a proper battery, I didn&#8217;t have a &#8220;run-stand,&#8221; I had shoddy secondhand battery cables, I had to use ether and heatgun in lieu of a proper GP harness, and so on.\u00a0 But in the end, it worked out ok.\u00a0 And I made sure not to run the beast for more than 15 seconds, since I didn&#8217;t have the coolant circuit set up either.\u00a0 Overall, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend doing this, unless you know you won&#8217;t run it long and it won&#8217;t tip over on you.<\/p>\n<p>But since I had the beast and the camera running, I thought I would put it on the net because nearly ALL of the &#8220;IDI running on a stand&#8221; videos didn&#8217;t explain all the necessary steps to getting it started.\u00a0 Apparently, the only videographers on youtube with IDI&#8217;s have epilepsy or the inability to zoom in on shit.\u00a0 So here is my vid, complete with every explanation from top to bottom.\u00a0 HTH.<\/p>\n<p><b>No warranty. You are responsible for your vehicle. For novelty use only. Not responsible for anything or anyone. Not responsible for damage to your vehicle, you, or anyone or anything.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2000-2018\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/\">Nick Pisca<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.0001design.com\/\">0001D LLC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the information is relayed in the video.\u00a0 Also, I just don&#8217;t have the energy at the moment to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/fuel-system\/starting-a-6-9-7-3-idi-engine-on-a-stand-step-by-step\/\" title=\"Read Starting a 6.9 \/ 7.3 IDI Engine on a Stand, Step-by-Step\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,9,93,94],"tags":[27,6,5,79,77,78,76,75],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickpisca.com\/diesel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}