Truck turns over wont fire

Tiny
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  • 1994 FORD F-250
  • 220,000 MILES
Truck turns over wont fire. Used ether wont fire. Plugged it in to warm it up and it fired but died 30 seconds later.
Some people told me it was glow plugs.
Im not sure what it is just need some help to figure out what it is and to get it running. It turns over just wont fire up and ether doesnt help
Thursday, January 17th, 2013 AT 10:27 PM

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Tiny
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Not glow plugs or it would not have started.

You need oil pressure to fire the injectors. It needs to be verified by a scan tool as it needs around 800 lbs from the high pressure oil pump. No way for you to tell this.

Have a shop check it for you

Roy
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013 AT 11:16 PM

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