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  1. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    You should be reading around 300-320 psi. so that's not good, you may have got it hot enough to collapse the rings. Lots of folks would say "i would have noticed before it got that bad" but in reality humans are actually very poor at monitoring engine parameters. There is likely water in the...
  2. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    I can't tell if the water is blowing out of the intake port or the exhaust port (the small port in the middle of the head is connected to the exhaust) ether way it is not good. I would do a compression test after securing a set of intake port covers, if anything gets into those ports it's bad...
  3. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    If your compression was so bad that ether would not kick it (again don't do that again) it should be obvious while cranking, you had it running so you should know what it sounded like while cranking before the "incident", does it sound different now? It should sound even, not significantly...
  4. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    I asked if there was any water in the oil, also is the oil level high. You are a little vague about the readings when you noticed trouble, if the "white smoke" you saw was the beginning of the cooling system failure you should be OK, if the white smoke was sometime down the road from the event...
  5. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    Is there water in the oil? how hot did it get?
  6. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    It looks like you have pretty much checked all the boxes but for possibly the glowplugs, it should be warm enough now that you would at least get smoke and should try to start or start with lots of smoke. Please do not feed that engine any more ether, they do not like that one bit!! There...
  7. Mogman

    HMMWV h1 6.5 non turbo crank wont start

    Welcome to the forum!!
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