1997 cranks wont fire
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1997 cranks wont fire
Help all you experts, I can usually find my answer by searching the forum but I'm a little stuck on this one.
Driving to work yesterday, I can smell fuel, not good sitting at a red light I notice my gas gauge dropping fast, head for a parking lot so I don't brak down in traffic. As I get in the truck shakes rattle and stalls. Fuel every where. Get it towed home. Find a hole in the bottom of the fuel filter housing. Get a new one from the ford dealer($500.00 bucks thank you... told it was because the truck was so old!)
I Got it all hooked up, engine cranks then gets slow but won't fire. I think I got too much air in the fuel system. Tried to bleed it from the return line. End of my expertise with diesels
This my first posting and want to thak all the guys who help out and run this site it's awesome
Driving to work yesterday, I can smell fuel, not good sitting at a red light I notice my gas gauge dropping fast, head for a parking lot so I don't brak down in traffic. As I get in the truck shakes rattle and stalls. Fuel every where. Get it towed home. Find a hole in the bottom of the fuel filter housing. Get a new one from the ford dealer($500.00 bucks thank you... told it was because the truck was so old!)
I Got it all hooked up, engine cranks then gets slow but won't fire. I think I got too much air in the fuel system. Tried to bleed it from the return line. End of my expertise with diesels
This my first posting and want to thak all the guys who help out and run this site it's awesome
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From: Mt. Airy MD
Ran out of fuel once--Pick up in the tank broke off and couldn't get any more--Boy was that a pain trying to figure out! If you bleed the system jsut keep cranking--Probably need and charger to keep the batteries up. I had a second tank full but it took forever cranking to get it to fire again.
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From: Medford Oregon
On the passenger side of the fuel bowl there is a plug you disconnected to remove the bowl. Real easy to forget about it.
Any white smoke when cranking ?
Is there fuel in the filter canister ?
Any white smoke when cranking ?
Is there fuel in the filter canister ?
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From: Levittown
Check the wiring/connections (ipr/icp) and blown fuse.
It will self purge the air with cranking the motor. (clean screen/ aka fpr screen).
It does not take much fuel pressure for the motor to start.
If above looks good check pressure with a gauge.
Have seen issues with the filter opening the valve in the standpipe.
Bill
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From: Belair md
i'd rather see diesel go in it...lol the trans will work but isnt the best thing for the injectors.
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From: Ft Scott
It's possible but I doubt that's what caused it. Usually it's from all the crud that sits in the bottom of the bowl that corrodes and causes pits that eventually grow to the point where the bowl starts leaking. A good cleaning with brake kleen and then a coat of JB Weld will keep it in service.
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