A couple of weeks ago, I began experience some intermittent surging/stalling issues. The truck was behaving somewhat erratically just cruising down the street. It would all of a sudden have a ton of power for a very brief period. Other times, it would simply stall out in the middle of the road. It wasn't consistent and I couldn't reliably reproduce the issues.

My starter also started acting up last week. It would just "click." Wrapped it with a wrench and it would start again. It finally failed completely on Sunday. I had to use a bigger hammer this time and it finally engaged. Unfortunately, it got stuck engaged. It would kick out after the engine started, but continued to spin. I shut the truck off and it continued to spin. I disconnected the batteries to get it to quit spinning in the hopes I could at least get it home. No luck. As soon as I hooked the batteries back up, it tried to start the engine again (with the key in the off position).

I put a new starter in last night and all seems to be well. Best part is the starter was under warranty (just over 2 years old), so it only cost me time to get it put in.

Thanks to prior posts I've read on this forum, the stalling/surging seems to be taken care of !!! I put a new filter in before the surging/starting started, but didn't have the time to clean out the fuel bowl / fpr properly. I took the filter out again last weekend, sprayed out the / FPR with carb cleaner and poured Diesel Kleen in the empty fuel bowl before putting the filter back in.

Truck runs like a champ now!!! The injectors are nice and quiet on the road and for the first time since I can remember, I hear road noise over the engine when I'm just cruising. The surging/stalling appears to be gone as well.

THANK YOU to all the members on here that have given some great advice!!

 

Glad to hear that every thing is fine. Congrats. And yes this is the best forum ever.