[ken6x6]

today i tried some of the mentioned spots to check and techniques for cold starts. i ran the glow plugs for two cycles. although the glow plug light only came on for the first cycle. ?? then i put the throttle to full. cranked it over till i saw smoke, then dropped the throttle to half (while still cranking) and it fired up. the starter didn't drop rpm this time. so i let it run for 30 seconds, shut it down in tried a restart. two cranks of the starter and it fired. i went ahead and pulled the wires off everything starting related. looked for anything abnormal. all was fine. i load tested both battery's. both good. i used the load tester wile running the starter, the volts never dropped below 11. everything seemed to check out.