84 kenworth bc350

Have you tried shooting a “little” starting/ether fluid in the intake to see if it will at least wanna start ?

 

Years back when I was green as they come(1980), I was driving 318 jimmy and ran out of fuel. Long story short, when road service showed up, they dump 20 gallons of fuel, the way they primed the fuel system was using an air nozzle pushing air thru one of the fuel tank vents while I was cranking it over, truck started and I was on my way. Just a thought.

 

Shut the valve on the other tank if your running a splitter.

 

I'd isolate the engine from the truck from a fuel standpoint. Connect a funnel & hose to the fuel pump inlet hold it higher than the engine to gravity feed it. Also set up can be all wrong if the accessory drive isn't it time. The pulley should have a 1-6 tc mark on it. Will be between the c & a mark on the pulley. If you remove #1 injector you can verify #1 tdc matches the pulley. Top stop injectors set at zero lash 6 INCH lbs. Valves at .011 & .023 using the inner base adjustment procedure. If it has Jakes be sure they aren't set too tight. Back off the adjusters to be sure.

 

Some, maybe all pt fuel pumps have a 1/4 pipe plug on the top near the tach drive that can be removed to fill/ prime the pump. I have never needed to do this unless something has a vacume leak but it might be worth a try. Be sure to use clean fuel before you are bypassing the filter.

 

Found a picture of the plug…not a good one but should give an idea