Carbon Build-Up
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Carbon Build-Up
beeboy,
There's usually only the filter (on the carb) if you don't count the sock(s) in the tank(s). I like to run a large in-line filter before the fuel pump in case the sock goes bad. Keeps the crud from damaging the pump and the small filter on the carb lasts longer.
On my '78 the fuel switch is on a crossmember just ahead of the rear tank but my '77 has it on the frame rail just ahead of the side tank. If you keep following the fuel lines you'll find it.
There's usually only the filter (on the carb) if you don't count the sock(s) in the tank(s). I like to run a large in-line filter before the fuel pump in case the sock goes bad. Keeps the crud from damaging the pump and the small filter on the carb lasts longer.
On my '78 the fuel switch is on a crossmember just ahead of the rear tank but my '77 has it on the frame rail just ahead of the side tank. If you keep following the fuel lines you'll find it.
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Thanks for the info mac. I should probably throw another filter inline as I have found chunks of rust in the small filter. Doesn't take much to plug that one up! I'm sure the socks can't be in good shape either.
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I feel like UglyF250.....I go away, I come back. I go away.........
I thought I had solved my problem by changing the fuel filters. But instead, it was behaving the same as it had been, only worse! It had begun to stall as well as run bad, and it never stalls! I determined that it was fuel derprived by the way it was acting.....
So, I basically inched my way to the parts store, where I got another filter for off of the carb. The one I had just put on I got from the guy who I bought the truck from who calls himself a mechanic, and he just gave it to me. Since I'm still learning all of this stuff, I ASSumed that the guy would not give me a filter of the wrong size. Oh sure, it screwed on the same, but that was the end of the similarities, lol! Well, ya live and learn I guess!
So now I'm going! I am going to the Ranger Board, as I suspect that my 90 Ranger 2.3 5spd needs a new alternator....
Ha! I hope I don't NEED to come here anytime soon again! (Not that you all aren't wonderful, but I prefer reading this board when I'm not having problems, lol!)
I thought I had solved my problem by changing the fuel filters. But instead, it was behaving the same as it had been, only worse! It had begun to stall as well as run bad, and it never stalls! I determined that it was fuel derprived by the way it was acting.....
So, I basically inched my way to the parts store, where I got another filter for off of the carb. The one I had just put on I got from the guy who I bought the truck from who calls himself a mechanic, and he just gave it to me. Since I'm still learning all of this stuff, I ASSumed that the guy would not give me a filter of the wrong size. Oh sure, it screwed on the same, but that was the end of the similarities, lol! Well, ya live and learn I guess!
So now I'm going! I am going to the Ranger Board, as I suspect that my 90 Ranger 2.3 5spd needs a new alternator....
Ha! I hope I don't NEED to come here anytime soon again! (Not that you all aren't wonderful, but I prefer reading this board when I'm not having problems, lol!)
Last edited by RangerWoman; Aug 28, 2003 at 12:59 PM.
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