About 2 weeks ago I picked up a case 450 dozer SN 3050945 188 engine. When I bought it, we fired it up and it started right away and ran for about 45 seconds and I noticed a hydraulic leak so we shut it down, It has a driveline issue so he loaded it on my trailer via a forklift. Got it home and unloaded, swapped out the leaking hydraulic hoses and a couple other things but nothing related to the engine. 2 days ago checked the oil, checked for plenty of fuel in the tank, both the fuel feeder and return line valves are open, blew air through both lines to be sure they weren't clogged, swapped fuel filters and bled the system by breaking injectors loose and looking for fuel, everything looked good. Cant get it to start, turning over fast enough, checked valves, took top off injector pump to be sure the cutoff was all the way open, took each injector out and verified they were pushing fuel by hooking them up outside the cylinders, all 4 had good streams of fuel, all cylinders seemed to be pushing good air but I don't have a way to test compression on this thing since the injectors aren't threaded. It will fire for just a couple of seconds if I hit it with about .5 sec of ether. Any ideas are welcome.
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