engine died, considering possibilities
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5th Wheeling
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while looking for another engine for this truck, as the current one is about worn slap out, i found it to be cheaper to buy another truck than to buy just the engine. so i did just that. i'm still gonna pull the front cover off to check and see if the timing was indeed off, but the truck's ultimately headed for the scrap yard. but, before it heads out, is there anything anyone on here'd need off of it before it goes? if it's something big, it'd have to be picked up locally (i live in the SE corner of WA), but i'd be willing to ship something small. it's probably going away in a week, maybe two.
everything was well functional, minus the engine.
everything was well functional, minus the engine.
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just saying but i have a 70 f 250. tested everything as you did and it came out to the the fuel tank. there was rust in the tank . it would run just long enough to create enough pressure to suck in all the rust junk and block the fuel in the tank it self, not the fuel filters or pump. just a thought. I also to have had to replace the timing chain and the difference with the timing chain and the rust in the tank was the timing chain caused it to backfire ... everything else was timed it seemed. where as with the gas tank it would just as you said shut off and coast until the particles in the tank would settle down then could restart it right back up.
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i thought about that, but i'm getting fuel to the carb. plus, the truck won't start back up. it won't even stumble. it's basically acting as though it's getting no fuel or spark, but i've verfied it's getting both. even when i shot a blast of ether down the carb... nothing.
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From: Northern CA.
Had the exact same thing happen to me back in the mid 70's with a 71 F150 that had a 360 in it. Shut down and left me sitting right in the middle of an intesection.
Turned out that the condenser inside the distributor went bad. Replaced that and it fired right up!
Hope that turns out to be the problem since it's an easy fix. Good luck with it.
Turned out that the condenser inside the distributor went bad. Replaced that and it fired right up!
Hope that turns out to be the problem since it's an easy fix. Good luck with it.
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