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I just recently replaced my valve
Cover and oil pan gasket on my 1988 4.9L. After finishing everything up, I start the vehicle and it ran about 5 seconds then sputtered out and stopped. I try to start it again but the engine sounds like not all the cylinders want to fire up. Has this happened to anyone before? It sounded great as soon as I started it up but now it won't even start.
Cover and oil pan gasket on my 1988 4.9L. After finishing everything up, I start the vehicle and it ran about 5 seconds then sputtered out and stopped. I try to start it again but the engine sounds like not all the cylinders want to fire up. Has this happened to anyone before? It sounded great as soon as I started it up but now it won't even start.
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It was running excellent before the repairs. I figured I might've installed the oil pan gasket incorrectly. Would that cause a no start situation? It started for a good 5 seconds but bogged down and would start back up again.
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The engine will sound like it's turning over, when I stop turning the key the engine will stroke a couple times and then die. This truck is as basic as it gets, there is no ECM on this truck and it has never given me issues until I changed out the gaskets.
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An oil pan gasket, even if you completely screwed it up, wouldn't cause a no-start. Only way that could happen is if you put it in wrong and all the oil leaked out and locked up the engine, in which case it would have run for a while first, and afterwards you wouldn't be turning it over on the starter so that ain't the problem.
Did you have to jack the engine up any to change that gasket? If so are you absolutely certain you didn't crush a fuel line against the firewall, or something similar?
Usually when something works or runs perfectly fine, and then you touch it, and after that it don't work anymore, it's something ridiculously simple and stupid that's keeping it from doing so. Usually something you forgot to reconnect, or that got damaged accidentally during the repair.
It'll be one of those things where when you do find out what's wrong you'll do this -->
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I am sure it is something extremely simple. I did not raise the engine while changing the gasket. I used a Felpro gasket so it made getting it on easier. I did have to take the starter off to get to one of the oil pan bolts loose because I didn't have a socket extension at the time. I tried starting the truck by spraying gasoline into the intake manifold and I got a backfire but still no start. It doesn't sound like any of the cylinders are messed up. When u turn the key it sounds like all the cylinders have good compression. I am a bit confused.
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Ok, well you didn't say what makes it go... carburetor, electronic fuel injection, mechanical fuel injection, flux capacitor... what makes her tick? An 88 should be EFI from the factory. You said no ECM but even if it came carbureted from the factory it would still have an ECM for the crummy emission-compliant carburetor.
Did you rip that off and put a real carb on it? If so how is the fuel and ignition system set up now?
I still say you have like a 98% chance it's something you caused by accident because it ran good before you touched it.
Is there fuel in the tanks, and do you have a tank with fuel in it selected?
Did you rip that off and put a real carb on it? If so how is the fuel and ignition system set up now?
I still say you have like a 98% chance it's something you caused by accident because it ran good before you touched it.
Is there fuel in the tanks, and do you have a tank with fuel in it selected?
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Alright help me out, I have a 1988 F150 4.9L with a single fuel tank. I was driving it the other day and the truck cut out while I was going up a hill. I back it down the hill and I couldn't hear my fuel pumps turning back on. So I figured the fuel pump went bad. I had it towed back to my house and dropped both fuel pumps and tested them individually and they work. My guess is the fuel pump relay is messed up. But tried starting the truck today and all I could hear is the ignition clicking for one second and all the power is cut to my truck. In order to get powers again I have to disconnect the battery cables and reconnect them. But the truck still doesn't even try to turn over. I don't understand what it is. Help me!!!!!
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