The reason it's romping like that is because not all the cylinders are up and firing yet, just give a little throttle and it would have been fine. And I don't mean stomp it. Prob have damaged piston rings on 7 and 8, the air boxes don't seal well on them and the turbo dusts the engine. Seen this plenty, also you should have cycled the GPs and waited a real minute before trying to start it, they all sound rough on cold starts don't fret it.
No its cold i drive a 2003 IC200 what you want to do is switch it on what until the light go off to start turn it back off do that about 3 or 4 times then start it.... my bus runs like that every morning but its smooves out after you let it run for about 20 to 30 minutes
Those T444E's will do that as they get older. Give it enough gas when it runs like that at cold start to stay at or slightly below 1000RPM for a minute until it'll idle and you will be fine...
txstreetman, I have driven a 95 7.3 & it’ll start fine above 35 degrees w no glow plugs, below that & they need them. When it got 32 here in Texas I had a switch on em & never needed them cuz it rarely gets below 35 down here. But when it is cold, she’s not happy till she’s warm, once she’s warm or after 5-10min if idle time then she’s good to go, then after 1-2miles you can tromp on it.
how cold was it out, it probably wouldve run fine.. but sounded like you might have a couple glow plugs out... the surging occurs because the computer is trying to reach the cold idle speed of i believe 850 RPM.. and so its giving it fuel but only some of the cylonders are hitting, so it gives it more fuel then overshoots the RPM, so it lets off.. once all the cylinders fire the surging will go away.. this was my cold start on 3f weather, same engine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yri8OXtfjSU.html
