Ok so as many of you have probably seen my gf and I bought a 1982 Cutlass supreme with the 350 olds diesel. Well after some tinkering, a new fuel filter, and two new batteries I decided to try and fire it. It was really sluggish to turn over at first but after that it spun great and with the help of a little starting fluid it fired up and revved for a second then died. Now I know air in the lines sucks for a diesel however we continued this process for a while and with each time we thought it was running on its own. I even got the throttle to respond a couple times before it died. So now on to the question, does anyone know what would make it start and rev for a second then die out? I guess maybe all the air might not be worked out but this situation seems unusual compared to the work ive done on the 6.5 turbo diesels. My first thought was a bad injection pump but I hope not since I have no idea what to do with that one