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<blockquote data-quote="jltrent" data-source="post: 1455444" data-attributes="member: 21075"><p>We are talking here 1997 Ford 7.3s and before. Their starting problems boiled down to maintenance like everything else. With a good battery, 8 good working glow plugs, clean fuel filter, pumps working correctly they started good down to at least 10 degrees without plugging up. Just one weak or dead glow plug which was the main problem with them and they became hard to start. A lot of those still on the road with a good chassis still holding up around them.</p><p></p><p>Direct injection does build up more fuel pressure than IDI which aids in starting, but are a lot more expensive to work on. A lot of advantages/disadvantages to each. DI is more emission friendly, so you guessed it, that is were the money went.</p><p></p><p>I have a Kubota M9000 and M6800 that are both IDI and I never plug them up, unless it is getting down to 10 degrees or below. I have consistently started the M6800 at or around zero without the aid of a block heater.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jltrent, post: 1455444, member: 21075"] We are talking here 1997 Ford 7.3s and before. Their starting problems boiled down to maintenance like everything else. With a good battery, 8 good working glow plugs, clean fuel filter, pumps working correctly they started good down to at least 10 degrees without plugging up. Just one weak or dead glow plug which was the main problem with them and they became hard to start. A lot of those still on the road with a good chassis still holding up around them. Direct injection does build up more fuel pressure than IDI which aids in starting, but are a lot more expensive to work on. A lot of advantages/disadvantages to each. DI is more emission friendly, so you guessed it, that is were the money went. I have a Kubota M9000 and M6800 that are both IDI and I never plug them up, unless it is getting down to 10 degrees or below. I have consistently started the M6800 at or around zero without the aid of a block heater. [/QUOTE]
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