Hey, I was taking everyone's advice and getting all my fluids changed today and while I was chatting with the guys doing the work for me, I read a sticker under the hood that talked about a fuel cut off switch. I couldn't find reference to it in the owners manual, but the fact that there is a sticker means that the little joker just might exist.
I know mine is a 99 but it could be possible that there is one on your 95???
Maybe something to run down.
Scott

 

Cookie, No word from the shop today except they started to look at it this morning. Hopefully the found the problem and will have it running tomorrow.
And about that fuel cut off switch, I looked all over that truck and could not find one. So I dont know if one exsists on my 95. If it does, hopefully the mechanic know where it is.

 

Could be wrong, but thought it was either behind the driver or passenger side kick panel.

 

I looked under both panels and didnt see one. On my 91 it was under the dash by the glove box. I may have overlooked it though. That would good if thats whats wrong with it. Even though I would have wasted my time it wont cost much at the garage.

Steve

 

F0rdF0rever,

I hope you get things resolved without too much expense. You've been through enough already.

In my 99 owner's manual, page 144 says, "The fuel pump shut-off switch is located in the passenger's foot well, behind the kick panel."

 

Fordforever,

Unless someone put aftermarket electric pumps on your truck it wouldn't have any. These trucks have a mechanical pump that runs off the cam shaft located in the valley of your engine right beneath your turbo outlet y-pipe. I don't know if you had your truck indoors when you were heating it or not but if you did having it at 110 degrees should have thawed anything. Also did you plug your block heater in? That will warm up your engine pretty well and would probably take care of any problems up there. Leaving only from the engine back to figure out. If your pump hasn't been replaced then most likely its the culprit. Then again there are plenty of other things that would cause a no start situation. You should have had fuel flowing into your bowl though, sooo its a good start to have the pump looked into. I know its too late now since you already took it in but hey you tried

 

I've been following this for a week now!!

Don't leave us hanging!

 

Update: Still no word from the mechanic today so I took it upon myself to contact them. They said that they still dont know whats wrong with it. The guy in the office said that they had to send their computer out to get the software upgraded and they cannot move forward on my truck until it came back, sometime this afternoon. So sadly, another 3 days without my truck, atleast.
I guess im lucky I held on to the Ranger when I bought the psd. Oh, something funnny. I almost pumped diesel in my ranger today! The smell saved me.

 

After the problems with my beast, I'm selling it and switching back to my Nissan Frontier.

Actually, after reading everything that goes wrong with them on this site!

 

Dang, FF! I hope you get your baby back soon!

 

You might want to take that comment with a grain of salt... After all I'm willing to bet there are far more PSD's out there than a Nissan frontier (I've had problems on my '94 nissan PU btw, with it not even cranking) and furthermore, this site is not a fair representation about powerstrokes. People come here to express concern, and or repair problems so natrually you only hear about the bad. People aren't really into posting gee my truck works great just thought I'd make a thread and waste everyone's time. (While I would read such a thread, knowing how anyone with a PSD likes it including myself...) Just thought you might consider how this site is in my opinion the best tool a person could have. I've read an incredible volume of posts on powerstrokes mainly because I want to know what happens if something DOES go wrong. Anything man-made is bound to have problems, and I'm sure a toyota, nissan, or any other site is going to have forums just like this, about people having problems. Anyways, hope I wasn't too adversarial about your post there, but I did take a mild offense to that, I just didn't think you considered that there are millions of PSD's (and owners) that AREN'T on this site and won't be because they don't have problems.

Thanks to everyone for all the kick butt help, reading, and participation on this site, I read here every day, several times starting with the new posts, and re-reading some old. Sure has told me some things to look for should the unlikely event that my PSD has problems and I need to fix it.

 

Typically, I ignore such posts. That's just someone trying to get a rise out of us. I rise above and happily own all of my Ford products.

 

Well.....This post seems to have strayed a wee bit off topic.

FOrdFOrever,

Did they get to it this weekend?

At least it's a pick-up, I pulled up to the diesel pump the other in day in Mrs.Cookie's Windstar!! Fortunately I came to my senses.

 

That's better than the other way around. Although I guess it sucks either way. My friends dad filled his 01 PSD with unleaded the other day... $500 at the Ford Dealer. Yikes.

And if you don't get an update soon perhaps you should post the dealers phone number so we can all constantly call 'em until we get an answer!

 

I've been watching this post for over a week. Any news on your truck? Please don't leave us hangin!