This may be basic, but are you folks giving it 3/4 to full throttle when you crank, as suggested by the Yanmar manual? After it starts, you immediately pull back to idle to let the oil circulate.
When I got my first diesel-powered sailboat with a diesel. I didn’t know to do this and sometimes had long cranks to start. Now it catches almost immediately. Jack Brennan Former C&C 25 Shanachie, 1974 Bristol 30 Tierra Verde, Fl. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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