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No fuel, no glow plug light,after head gasket replace

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I recently replaced a head gasket on my 94, and while I was at it, I replaced the metal lines, injectors, and glow plugs, glow plug relay, 97 cooling upgrade, made a cable to remote mount the pmd to firewall with large heat sink and cpu cooling fan on it, and when I tried to start it, it will not send fuel to the injectors, and the glow plug light will not come on. I know I have the ground to the pmd wired back to the stock location, but the only thing I can really think of is a bad ground/missing ground somewhere. Also, my fuel guage pegs out way past full when I turn the key on, and my temp guage pegs out way past hot on the crank position of the key. At one point I lost all power to everything, and then after about ten mins it reappeared magically. I am tired, frustrated, and confused. There are so many systems to this engine that I don't really know which direction to look. grounds is my first step, but what next? I am looking for any ideas, any of you may have.
 
Don't forget, for your first couple of starts, you won't get a glow plug light even though the relay and system are working (if you disconnected batteries). I don't remember why but that's the way it is.
 
Sounds very much like the ground/s at the pass side rear of intake.

Also move your PMD outside the engine compartment. Mounted to the firewall the heat has nowhere to transfer to while at OT.
 
Ok, so today I pulled the intake, checked the grounds, and modified the ground to the ip so that there was for sure good ground there and cleaned the ground on the chassis. checked for pinched anything, and put a light on the positive side of what I think is the fuel solenoid? red n blk wire bolted to the ip with lil nuts under a cone rubber boot. There was no power getting to it with the key on, but on crank, there was 12v. ..still did not pump fuel to injector while cranking. On a separate note, I cannot get my glow plug relay to work.. no juice to the other post...never. And in the pics of the grounds write up, the pic showed 2 black wire grounds to the pass. side head stud, and a strap, but my 94 only had 1 wire to the pass side head stud, and the strap was mounted to one of the tranny to engine bolts. I've tried alot of diagnostics, one being that where the 5amp glow plug fuse goes shows that it goes to ground. Is this correct, cuz it goes to glow plugs which ground into the block?
HELP!!!!
 
Are you sure they were ALL there in '94? Cuz between 3 of us we cannot find any more ground wires there, and the strap was previously hooked to the engine/tranny bolt, before I ever touched it. from what I read the pics were from a '98?
 
both my 94's have 2. It's gotta be there somewhere. It has to be grounded good too. It's the ECM ground. It should come out of the wire loom that is there, bout an inch round IIRC.
 
It should be right there by the corner of the head. They will be a black and a brown IIRC.
 
Searched and searched, tore the loom apart, and found that the wires were shoved down by the tranny, so now it started right up!!! Thanks Everyone for such perfect diagnosis. amazing you can pin it down like that. but.... after I started it, I idled it a lil while (bout 10min) then drove it, and it was white smoking a bit still, so I gave it some throttle to warm things up and it started ticking. now it ticks and doesn't idle as smooth as before.:( sounds like a lifter. any other ideas?
 
Throw a quart of non detergent SAE30 in the fuel tank......IIRC new injectors usually "tick" for a while and then they quiet down.

Sounds normal for new injectors.
 
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