On The Road Again!!
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To coin the phrase from Willie Nelson "on the road again" My thanks to Paul and Traildawg for the suggests to get my White Beast up and running again. I found the trouble with the truck after many frustrating attempts. I was going to have my truck towed into a local garage so I went and talked to the mechanic on duty which so happens to be a Ford fanatic. I gave him a brief description of what it was doing and he asked me 5 questions. 1. have I noticed a slight loss in power? 2.Have noticed a drop in fuel mileage? 3. Did I have a hiccup (as he called it) under heavy acelleration? 4. Have I had surgeing at midrange? 5. Does my truck have about 140,000 miles on it. The answer to all of the about was yes. He told me that he would have it towed in but I would be wasting my money because he was sure it was the fuel pump pressure regulator was bad, in fact he was so confident that he took one off his shelf and handed it to me, He told me to bring it back or stop back by and pay for it if it worked, Well, let me say I stopped by in my truck and paid the man in full!! Thanks again for the suggesttions. I am off to do a little trucking.
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 28-Jun-01 AT 02:25 AM (EST)[/font][p]THAT IS KICK-#####! I wish more mechanics were of that cut.
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Greg, I have dual tanks with the electric fual pump in each tank. Which i did not mention in my earlier post that one mechanic had thought that the fuel pumps in the tanks were shorting out and causing them to run all the time but i could not bring myself to believe that both pumps would happen to fail at the same time. The regulator on my engine was located on the front right hand side of my engine. needless to say it did take a specail allen wrench tool and was not the easy to get to, but never the less it was worth it.
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WC , Im glad your truck is running the way it should , but I cant quite see how replacing the fuel pressure regulator corrected the problem ? I got the impression from the posts you made the fuel pump(s) were running when they shouldnt have been & you had intermittant no starts . Since the fuel pressure regulator is vacuum operated , it has no electrical connections , how would replacing it fix the problem ? The Pressure regulators fail , but the failure is usually a leak or something along those lines that affect fuel pressure . Im not trying to argue with you , I was hoping maybe the mechanic that suggested this as a fix to you might explain how he came to his conclusion based on what you posted here . Thanks .
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