Random long cranking problem

Well a guy brought over a 01 ex. With a 7.3 in it with starting issues. He said randomly, it will just crank and crank and won't start. Someone told him to break the valve open on the fuel bowl and let it drain for a couple seconds and then try. He said that's the only way he got it to start both times it happened.

So now I got it here and of course, past 2 days, no problems at all. But this morning, she just cranked. I noticed the tach was not moving, so I started thinking cps. But then after like 15 sec of cranking it came up to around 200rpms bit still no start. Gave the starter a break, then started cranking again. No Rpms at all for like 10 seconds then it just started. I'm gonna go out and put scan tool on it and see if it's got any codes

What you guys think

I would be swapping out the CPS for a start. I would also be tempted to test out that CPS in another truck.

when it cranks with no RPM's showing, do you get your wait to start light and all the other gauges function?

Yeah I was thinking about just doing that but now I just realized that the tach doesn't seam to move until it's running even when it starts perfectly.
Only code in it is p1212 icp (cranking) not detected

When it happens....check the oil level in the hpop res.

a_moore said:

When it happens....check the oil level in the hpop res.

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Yep that's what i read. Just now i gotta wait for it to do it again:doh:

Well the hpo line that runs to the drives side head had a pretty decent leak. So I replaced it and we will see what happens

Also might think about cleaning your IPR.

If you don't have a WTS light when it does it, swap out the ECM power relay

DcMoore said:

Also might think about cleaning your IPR.

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Yeah that's another think I was thinkin. Just figured I'd fix the obvious leaky line that needs to be fixed anyways then we ll go from there.

The subject line for this post implies many things, thank goodness you cleared this up!

Yeah that's about all I knew when I started this thread lol