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Old Sep 22, 2024 | 07:48 PM
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Les-Glad to hear that you finally found(hopefully) the issue. It is very frustrating when you are chasing and diagnosing gremlins and second guessing yourself. It is so much easier to diagnose something so obvious as a line leaking. Hats off to you for not giving up.

Hopefully you will have many trouble free miles driving/towing.

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Old Sep 22, 2024 | 08:11 PM
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Thanks Rob,

Hopefully it’s just the spring. If not I’m going to try a cheapo Amazon FPR.

I’m also going to create a fuel pressure diagnosis flow chart to be considered for the Tech folder.

Could have saved myself a boatload of money and time if I did the two tests done today in the very beginning.
 
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Old Sep 22, 2024 | 08:25 PM
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A troubleshooting chart would be great for the tech folder. Sometimes it is the simple tests get you pointed in the right direction.A perfect example are truck/trailer lighting issues. Both my boys know that the first thing to do is plug one of my4 pin and 7 pin light testers into the truck side trailer plug and see if the truck side is working or not and also make sure any grounds are clean. Saves going down the rabbit hole and wasting time.

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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 08:35 AM
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Spotted this today and wanted to share just in case. Dieselorings shows the orientation of the poppet seat. This must be something common to mix up. I probably would have put it the other direction without instruction. Been a while since I’ve been in mine (hopefully mine’s good lol).



 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by RacinJasonWV
Dieselorings shows the orientation of the poppet seat.


Thanks Jason,

One could only wish. I’ve had that assembly apart 3 times throughout. Once for the replacement, once to remove the FRx and once to reinstate the FRx.

As well, here is a picture I took just yesterday of the original that I removed where I pulled the seal back from the seat of the poppet.




Oh… I got it… maybe this will work.



Looks more like the Dieselorings image now. I had the poppet oriented the wrong way.



 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 10:45 AM
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Umm… I don’t think the poppet is supposed to go through the seat.
 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 12:50 PM
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Well shucks! With all the trouble you’ve been going through I was hoping to maybe have stumbled upon something. I knew a long shot but didn’t want to notice the possibility and not share the thought.

Your photo fix was funny. Glad your humor is still there after all of this!
 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by F350towing
I’m also going to create a fuel pressure diagnosis flow chart to be considered for the Tech folder.

Could have saved myself a boatload of money and time if I did the two tests done today in the very beginning.
Well done sir! I agree with Rob (comment below) that we as a community would greatly appreciate a diagnosis flow chart. You may have spent a lot of money and time learning the way, but you could also save someone a lot of money and time teaching them the way.




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A troubleshooting chart would be great for the tech folder. Sometimes it is the simple tests get you pointed in the right direction.

Rob
 
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Just let me know when it is done so I can put it there.
 
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Just let me know when it is done so I can put it there.

I’m working on it.
 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 06:23 PM
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Here it is.


Edit: Removed the draft document from the post.
 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 07:20 PM
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Here it is.

Second thought… let’s call that a draft document.

I want to make some changes. Was in a rush to get it finished.
 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 10:52 PM
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Take your time!

I'm still working on my 2014 to-do list.
 
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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 11:39 PM
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Take your time!

I'm still working on my 2014 to-do list.

Hmmm… as the saying goes

Day late and a dollar short,

Your tally looks something like this

Decade late and $3650 short, and let’s not talk about inflation nor interest on the missed payments.

Actually when I look at it $3650.00 ain’t too bad for deferring a task 10 years.
 
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Old Sep 24, 2024 | 10:52 AM
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It's worse than that.

Much worse.

I can still think of things I wanted to do in 1984 that I haven't done yet.

That's 14,600 days late ago.

Not sure that I am capable of compounding the interest on all those dollars shorted.
 
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