Well i finally got another one same year truck as my first one same engine same truck really 84 F250 XLT although the one i just bought is a 4x4 factory highboy with a C6 automatic not my first choice on trannies rather it be a stick but it will do its in pretty good shape not any thing close to as nice as my 2 wheel drive but good enough it has its share of problems but for a 1000 i thought it was n ok deal as of now i have a few problems that some of you may be ble to help me figure out the first problem is with the electronic fuel pumps they dont work unless bypassed as they are set up right now have a wire running back to the fuel pumps in the tanks that is wired into an empty space on the fuse panel that has power to it when the key is on in return giving power to the fuel pumps it has a toggle switched wired in so you can shut the pumps on and off that way as well as with the key from what the guy who i bought it from said was they changed the fuel pump relays and the little impact swtich ont he bottom of the fire wall inside the truck and nothing worked he siad there is a fuesable link most likely burnt up my questions is there even one of those in there or not a fuesable link? i would liek to fix it the right way but the way it is now isnt to bad a deal works fine also i think my light switch is bad all i get is head lights no tail lights marker lights or dash lights would a bad swtich cause the lights to do that? i am going to go to the junk yard this weekend and buy new stuff well used good stuff i need a few odds n ends for it switches and smll stuff like that i need new vaum lines as well cause some are bad and i need to replace those ad rebuild the carb it dosent runt o great runs to rich and it needs a new smog pump as the one on it siezed up from not being hooked up was thinking just take the one of my 2 wheel drive and put it ont his one to smog it then take it off put it back on my 2wd and they on the 4wd totally get rid of that system and block off the line on the back of the heads with a large bolt this truck has the worthless carbon canisters to and the purge system which is for the california smog legal garbage my 2wd is just a federal truck a 49 state truck but this one is a 50 so who knows how and what standars they will hold it to pass smog hopeful tot he smae standards they did my 2wd was lik 1.20 hydro carbons alound at idle so hopefully it wnt be to bad and i can get it smogged and on the road ill let you know how prgoress comes a long with it id apperciate any adivce on what the problems i listed are and any other adives that i should watch out for thanks steven

 

I just want to point out that the only piece of punctuation I can find in that ENTIRE... what, sentence? paragraph? unbearably long string of words? is a single question mark buried somewhere in the middle.

I'm not trying to pick on you, (well, maybe I am a little) but I honestly find it really difficult understand what you're saying/asking.

 

I have to agree about the punctuation, I am not too sure what you are asking...

 

I think he is looking into how the electric fuel pumps are wired up.???/

I am thinking there are no electric fuel pumps because it is carborated. My 83 F250 351w has not electric fuel pumps. It has the pump that works off the crank. The only thing electric is the tank switching unit and the 2 sending units(for amout of gas in tank). When it gets power it pulls from the front tank and w/o power it pulls from the rear tank. When the truck is turned off all the exess fuel goes into the rear tank, well it rean out that hose when I was playing with it.

 

I have an 85 F250 with 460 and dual electric pumps in the tanks. It has a carb. The power to the pumps not only goes thru the relay, selector switch, interia switch, but it also goes through a oil pressure switch. This switch is plumbed into the fitting for the oil pressure sending unit. Simple, no oil pressure no fuel pump. If the engine dies and the line is ruptured, the gas is not pumped all over the ground. My guess is if the wiring is all good, the pumps run when hot wired and you have changed the relay and inertia switch, try jumpering the oil pressure switch. If the pumps run, then the engine has no oil pressure or the switch is bad. Just my thoughts with punctuation.

JWR
85 F250HD 4x4 460 T-19

 

LOL i didnt know i was having a spelling contest? and i didnt know all of you where english teachers. WOW! i must say im impressed NOT as far as the oil presure think the truck has plenty of it. Guy before the actual guy i bought it from him being the orignal owner of the truck changed out the rear main seal they also installed a high volume melling oil pump. Why? why the hell not i would to if i had the oil pan off my 2wd anyway it makes enough oil presure but ill try that trick to see if thats it. If its not that ill just leave it hot wired it works fine that way. Plus it wont be soemthing really special just used for some offraoding and winter driving condition where 4wd is helpful and needed. So since none of you actully really answered my questions besides jwrbooss302 but also threw his 2 cents in there which wasnt helpful i dont see why you all bothered to waist your time talking trash? Oh well i was a little excited about getting another truck and wanted to get the problems i had wrong with it posted on here to try and get some help so i typed it without any puncutuation i still could read it thought some of you could to and atleast help me out. But if you cant read it they dont even bother to post your thoughts about how i typed it out. Unless you actully have some useful information which none of you did except jwr. It just bothers me that you would type some trash about how i typed it out when most of you said you cant read it at all then dont even bother to write about it. I guess ill just figure it out on my own without the help of some of you what was i thinking anyways? OH WELL oh yeah can you read this post now? Or am i gonna feel like in dealing with my 9th grade english teacher/teachers

 

We are not talking trash; we just said we have a hard time understanding you when everything [your sentences] is ran together. We don't know what you are trying to say because _we_ aren't english teachers.

With that said, by the sounds of it, you have an F-250 with a 460 that has the hot fuel option. It has an electric pump with a supply & return gas line to the tank. The point of it is to keep circulating the fuel back&forth to the gas to keep it cool.. It sounds like the last guy bypassed the relay and oil pressure switch, like the last guy said. What you need to do is: get a haines manual, and trace the wiring for the system.

The other thing I got from your first post is that all the emission parts are messed up. Good luck on that one, almost all the parts you need to fix it are currently discontinued from ford, and since you live in CA, you'll need all the emissions equipment.

 

thanks for the reply and the info on figuring it out i guess the pumps stopped working completely. That is why the guy that i bought it from the second owner of the truck bypassed that and ran a wire to the pumps from a live plug in on the fuse panel when the key is turned on. As as the emission stuff its all there excpet the smog pump it siezed up all i have to do is either get another good used one or just take the one of my 84 2wd 250 and use it for the test then put it back on my 2wd. And then put a bole it on the back of the heads where the air line is or just on top of the air line itself. other then that it seems to be fine it runs ok need a carb rebuild for sure which im gonna do this weekend along with going junk yard shopping. It will be fun im looking foward to getitng it running good and driving it

 

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What a smart *** kid.......... Oh wait that kid was me! P!ease don't hate me for posting on such an old post. Just interesting to see all my old posts from over 10 years ago. Lol what a ***** at 19 I was

 

I did see a question mark in the middle....Punctuation does not end once out of 9th grade, it's taught to be used for a lifetime.... (or is there an app. for that??)

 

Too funny. Myself? I was once young and stupid. Now I’m older... (It usually takes people a few minutes to get that one.)

As I sit here and enjoy the fruits of the IHOP senior menu, I’m just glad there’s no public record of my thought process when I was 19.

So did you ever get the truck sorted out?

 

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Ya it's funny this was all back on a home PC Dell computer. Didn't even have smart phones and such like we do now. Yes I did get it all figured out and running well I kept it for awhile I actually sold it for 600 and a SuperChips tuner for my 02 F250 7.3 I bought maybe a year after this original post. Used to see it being driven around a lot before it finally up and vanished one day. Same with the 2wd I had I used to see that truck for maybe 5 years after I sold it.


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Once upon a time, I used to reply to these kind of badly-written posts and try to gently & respectfully show the author how his posting style is making it hard for people to help him.

When I did that, the usual response was just like that given above - "i didnt no this was n english class if u wont help methen just shutup n leaf me alone blahblahblah."

I don't write such responses anymore; in fact, I don't even bother to read such posts anymore.

"Grow up" is my usual mental response to such attitudes, "FOAD" other times, it depends on my mood.

If the author becomes a regular contributor here and continues posting (and annoying people) like that, the forum software has a neato feature that allows me to ignore all posts made by said author.

It's a lot more fulfilling to help people who show some respect to people rather than waste my time on the children who apparently feel entitled to be spoon-fed.

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But thanks for coming back 10 years later and laughing about it.

 

Ya always more ideas then I cared to take time back then write up properly. Im still by no means great at it to this day but I've slowed my roll I guess and try. To me these really are something that brings me back in time I'm the original poster.