early 99 powerstroke fuel routing
#1
early 99 powerstroke fuel routing
doing some random searches recently i found this statement posted:
"the late 99 and up powerstrokes have a dead-head fuel rail"
of course this could just be some yayhoo posting bad info, but i do not know. can anyone tell me- do the early 99's have a return line coming from the fuel rail? i have recently completed a wvo conversion that was designed on the assumption that the rail was dead-headed; if not i am sending wvo back to my diesel tank. no bueno. truck is parked until i get this figured out. i have tried to look in there but cannot tell.
thanks in advance.
"the late 99 and up powerstrokes have a dead-head fuel rail"
of course this could just be some yayhoo posting bad info, but i do not know. can anyone tell me- do the early 99's have a return line coming from the fuel rail? i have recently completed a wvo conversion that was designed on the assumption that the rail was dead-headed; if not i am sending wvo back to my diesel tank. no bueno. truck is parked until i get this figured out. i have tried to look in there but cannot tell.
thanks in advance.
#2
Dead, dead, dead. The flaws in the Superduty/Powerstroke fuel system:
- Fuel starts in a fuel line with Quick-Disconnects to make dropping the tank easier. When the fuel gets low in the tank (about 1/4 tank), gravity stops pushing the fuel in the line and the pump starts to create a vacuum in the fuel line. QDs have o-ring seals, and these suck at sealing... well.... suction.
- Any air in the line from a bad o-ring seal enters the fuel bowl and the pressure regulator bleeds much of the air back to the tank - where a mixing chamber lies in wait. It then makes sure the air feels welcome with the fuel by mixing it with fresh fuel from the pickup - like a nosey aunt trying to pair you up with her friend's daughter. The air mixture gets a proper mixing with this aerate, return, aerate - until the fuel bowl makes a nice bubble bath and the injectors get a foam diet.
- There is no fuel pass-through on the head - except through the injectors. There is a threaded port on the end of each head for installing a test gauge, but the factory kept these pre-occupied with plugs.
- Back to the tank... there is a funnel-shaped pickup in there that sometimes falls off. Off! Leaving a tube at mid-tank tring to suck fuel up by... I dunno... Magic?
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If you plan on installing the FRx from Riffraff then you will have to grind on the up-pipe to collector connection on the drivers side for the new fitting. The late 99-03 has that connection 3/4 inch higher and you do not need to grind on the metal. I am going to wait to upgrade to the late99-03 setup with bellowed up pipes and a GTP38R after the fall this year.
Dwayne
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