Need help with a fuel issue
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From: waco
Need help with a fuel issue
I have a 73 F100 that has an 82 model E350 460 in it. I installed a new polyethyline tank and holey 670 street avenger a few months back, and put a new fuel pump on it about 2 years back. I was driving my truck yesterday and it sputtered and died like it was out of gas, but it started back up and I made it back home. I filled it up with gas and It did the same thing today. I looked down the carberator and worked the linkage back and forth and I had no fuel to the carberator. I pulled the fuel line loose from the inline fuel filter and turned the engine over and had no fuel there either. I took the fuel line loose from the fuel pump and turned the engine over again and still got no fuel. I had my wife come get me so I could buy a new fuel pump for it. When I got back to the truck about 2 hours later, I tried to start it again before I changed the pump and it fired right up and run all the way home with no problems.
Does any one know what the problem might be and how to fix it? I'm kind of out of ideas at this point.
Mike
Does any one know what the problem might be and how to fix it? I'm kind of out of ideas at this point.
Mike
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Hey got some info for ya. I had the Truck Avenger 670 on my truck and id did the same thing and it was new. Called Holley after I was frustrated they authorised a replacement...in fact went through 3 replacements. Holley said it was the new more complicated metering block. They finally set me up with a Street Avenger 670 and the problem went away. With the TA 670 I would start it in the morning and it would end up running rich and sounding like an old untuned harley. I also heard they were going to discontinue the TA for these reasons. The dif between the TA and SA is the metering blocks, the overhead vent tube(i made one for the SA), and the spring loaded float valve seats. (you can get those too). My truck with an SA can do the hills now too. Thought you'd like to know.
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a few years back I had a friend that had used silicone to seal the sending unit in his tank, in the process a snakelike piece of silicone ended up in the tank. The damn thing would swim around for weeks then would run out of gas when the silicone got caught in the pickup tube, it the truck sat for awhile it would slip back out and run again for a week or a day or a month.
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