So i've finally swallowed my pride and am asking for advise. My fiance's 2006 CRD has been dead in the water for a few months and I don't know what to do next. I'm posting to hopefully avoid towing it to a dealership (the one she took it to first quoted $3k just to diagnose anything). About a week before it broke down it started idling high and black smoke. The day it broke she was going up a hill at operating temperature and it lost power and finally stalled. She sat for a few seconds and was able to restart and drove about 1/10 of a mile where it did the same thing but this time wouldn't crank. I bought an inline lift pump after following the no start flowchart which lead me to believe that might be the issue but wanted to double check with the pros before I started splicing into fuel and electric lines. From what I can tell it has the newer fuel head with the bigger electrical plugs. I replaced the starter and it now cranks but doesn't start. The timing was checked as that was my first thought but it is within spec. Is it possible to run a short length of tubing from the fuel head to a cup of diesel to isolate whether its getting air in the fuel near the tank? Any ideas are appreciated as I'd like to avoid the dealer! Thanks in advance for any advice and help.
