aksparkey01

just got my truck put back together this weekend. i have been nice to it because i havent retorqed the head yet. i added the ddp3's(had 300s), marine 20 over gasket, htt 62/13/71ss , 4k gsk, and advanced the timing to 17.5, oh and put in 131 lazer cut dv before that made it hard to start. now it is a bugger to start and smokes pretty good at a cold idle. are those just symptoms of timing and a marine gasket. i got the dvs from purediesel power and think the plungers sail 035 on them. other than that i cant wait to get on it. it is a totally differnt rig. and love the way the 4kgsk fuels
thanks for any input

timbeaux38

It is from the gasket and bumped timing. Ether is your friend.

Muddin_dude06

No need for ether with that timing and tuff, just apply some pressure to the pedal when you start cranking it and hold the RPM's to 1k for a few seconds after it fires. BTW 131 is just what DV's they WERE, now they are just good 'ole laser cuts, a 131 is what is was machined out of. It sounds like you have a pretty dang good setup if you ask me! Did you do any porting on the head while it was off?

aksparkey01

nope didnt port the head. at the moment i was just happy to get it back togeather. i was down for bout two months.