In the last two weeks, the engine of my truck has had to turn over more and more before it catches and starts. I am right at the end of an oil change interval, I changed the oil this afternoon. Any help?

how old is the fuel filter…..is it plugged…bad fuel.?

Stanadyne helps.

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The fuel filter was replaced the last oil change, about 10k kms. The before it started acting up, I filled up at a station I had never filled at before, maybe bad fuel. I'll try the stanadyne and a fill up and see if that clears it up.

Thanks

run the tank through, change the filter and run some additive.

had a guy come in and his truck was doin the same thing and his WIF sensor had developed a small pen hole leak in it so when it would sit over night it would take longer than normal to start

First guess is you are losing prime a bit. Do you see any wetness around the fuel filter? Any smell of diesel? Codes?

Before you start up, you might try pumping the primer on top of the fuel filter a couple times to see if it is "tight" and whether this changes the crank time.

First guess is you are losing prime a bit. Do you see any wetness around the fuel filter? Any smell of diesel? Codes?

Before you start up, you might try pumping the primer on top of the fuel filter a couple times to see if it is "tight" and whether this changes the crank time.
Try that first.....If it helps, I had an '09 where the primer on the filter head was installed incorrectly (this warped the primer housing and allowed it's O-ring to suck air, with very little fuel staining around it).

The three screws (2 Torx and one hex head) need removed, the primer assy lifted off, and you may find one of the three locating boss holes was crushed, leaving the housing to distort. I didn't find mine 'til it had at least 28k miles, and new filters began to zero the display within weeks. It almost always had an extended crank start, loss of power after really working the motor (uphill with a heavy trailer), and would occasionally stall, and when it stalled, pumping the hand primer would allow a restart. There was very little staining around the filter head, BUT, every time a filter was changed, it would come off half empty.

I didn't have another primer assy, so I trimmed the hole clean so it would go around the boss, reinstalled everything, and she's running normal again.

The triangular mounting plate, by design, rests on the three boss towers, and the nylon primer plate "floats" on the three boss towers.

Still running stock batteries? 2 to 3 years on the stock batteries may be about the end of the line for them. Maybe not, but no one else mention that paticular item yet.