Range sensor or neutral safety problem? update
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Range sensor or neutral safety problem? update
Today on the way home from the races, dumba$$ me ran the front fuel tank empty. Next time I travel I will have a full fuel jug with me. I thought about it friday, then thought, "I won't need it". Luckily I had enough additive in my bottle to fill up the pre pump filter, and most of the post pump filter. After some cranking I got it to fire up.
Now onto the actual problem. I cranked on it a bit before I filled the filters, and then after a bit I couldn't get it to crank. Just nothing when I turned the key. I put it in neutral and still had nothing. Then just messed with the shifter some and got it to crank. Then it kept working till I got it fired.
Thoughts? I just had a thought about the shifter bolts that come loose under the dash. I tightened mine up before, but that doesn't mean they aren't loose again. The more I think about it the shifter does seem a little sloppy again.
Think that could be it? I probably went and typed all of this and answered my own question.
Now onto the actual problem. I cranked on it a bit before I filled the filters, and then after a bit I couldn't get it to crank. Just nothing when I turned the key. I put it in neutral and still had nothing. Then just messed with the shifter some and got it to crank. Then it kept working till I got it fired.
Thoughts? I just had a thought about the shifter bolts that come loose under the dash. I tightened mine up before, but that doesn't mean they aren't loose again. The more I think about it the shifter does seem a little sloppy again.
Think that could be it? I probably went and typed all of this and answered my own question.
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I'm racing Dad's car as I'm in the process of selling my motor. Found a guy interested today too. I lost second round today. I cut a .002 light but the car fell off .06 from my dial in and I got beat by .001. An inch or so. Redlighted first round yesterday. I'm fighting a trans brake problem in the car. When I activate it it rolls ahead a little bit before locking, and doesn't roll ahead the same each time. Makes it hard to get my reaction time right. All my reactions were from -.010 (red light) to .011 on the good side all weekend, but I need to slow them down a little as that's flirting with disaster. It was really a pain as I had to wait a little longer to leave if it rolled ahead, and still sometimes redlighted. Gotta fix that. My car used to do that until I put a better trans brake in, might be what I have to do to this one.
Thanks Mike, mine is new with the rebuild this winter so it shouldn't be bad, but you never know.
Edit: Gabe, that is exactly what happened. I never even thought about that until I almost finished typing.
Thanks Mike, mine is new with the rebuild this winter so it shouldn't be bad, but you never know.
Edit: Gabe, that is exactly what happened. I never even thought about that until I almost finished typing.
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Sounds like a learning experince weekend then. Im sure you have to work out the bugs, just like when moding these trucks.
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Electric fuel... Jump power to the pump and let the pump prime the system before cranking it... I always do this when I break my fuel system apart, except when I change my filters. I never fill the filters when I change them out.
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I tried letting the key just be on for a while to hopefully let the pump fill them. I let it run, turned it off, let it run, off, etc. a few times trying but to no good ending. They had some fuel in them when removed, but not a lot. Although my quart of additive filled one and almost filled the other and the quart was about 1/3 gone.
I still had air in it when I got home, 35 miles later. It cranked a while before firing after I unhooked.
I still had air in it when I got home, 35 miles later. It cranked a while before firing after I unhooked.
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Does your pump run when you turn the key on? I wired mine with an oil psi switch like Travis' so the pump doesn't run until you start cranking, then oil psi switches it over to key on power.
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With the strictly diesel harness I have it runs for 30 or 60 seconds(can't remember) with the key on before it will shut off if you don't start it. That's why I turned it on and off a few times. I couldn't get it to show over 10psi until I filled the filters. Maybe it would have worked if I would have done it a few more times, I don't know.