fuel delivery problem
Thread Starter
|
New User
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 10
Likes: 0
fuel delivery problem
ok, well i brought home m' girl yesterday but i think i'm having a fuel delivery problem. about half way through m' ride back to the city with m' truck she started to spudder and eventually die. it started about halfway on a 150 km trip, but i was determined enough to keep starting her up and plugging along as far as i could. this happened more times then i can count untill nightfall when i finnally ran out of battery power and called caa. (m' last resort)
now m' first instinct was the fuel filter, but when i talked to m' cousin he told me he just installed a new one, and when i looked at the carb. i saw that it's fairly new. so i bought a new fuel pump and installed that before my trip back to the city, constantly checking m' lines to see if maybe there was a leak at the seam, but there wasent. i'm wondering if maybe theres another fuel filter on the gas tank, as i heard theres sometimes one there. if someone knows plz any help you can give me i'd appreciate because other then that i'm stumped as to m' problem.
now m' first instinct was the fuel filter, but when i talked to m' cousin he told me he just installed a new one, and when i looked at the carb. i saw that it's fairly new. so i bought a new fuel pump and installed that before my trip back to the city, constantly checking m' lines to see if maybe there was a leak at the seam, but there wasent. i'm wondering if maybe theres another fuel filter on the gas tank, as i heard theres sometimes one there. if someone knows plz any help you can give me i'd appreciate because other then that i'm stumped as to m' problem.
Last edited by D-V-ENT; Oct 3, 2005 at 01:20 AM.
Postmaster
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 4,402
Likes: 1
From: Delisle/Vanscoy, Sk.
Does it lose power when it starts to sputter. After sitting for a bit it starts fine and runs good for a bit then it happens again? If that is the case it may be your pickup coil in the distributor. This happened on my 78. New distributor and it was fine after.
Moderator
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 97,596
Likes: 2,008
From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Originally Posted by Mil1ion
May I suggest to post tech questions in the tech forums.Just a Head's up 
The chapter forums are meant for chapter related topics
The chapter forums are meant for chapter related topics
One last suggestion though is to check inside the fuel tank as I had the same problem with two different vehilces that sat for a while, the condensation had turned to very fine rust particles plugging the pickup tube screen in the tank. The longer I drove the less power and speed I could get and the more often the engine would die out. 
