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Old Jun 6, 2009 | 05:24 PM
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Truck won't start!!!

Came home from a weekend of camping and backed the truck and trailer up the driveway. The SERVICE ENGINE SOON light had been coming on intermitently before the camp weekend. A couple of days later I went to move it and it would just crank and crank. When I would try to start it the WTS light and the WATER IN FUEL light on the dash would go on and off really fast and there was a clicking sound like a relay. One time it started and I turned it off. Then couldn't get it to start again. Then I got it to start but it died 5 seconds later. Now the WTS light does not come on unless I move the #30 fuse on the passenger compartment fuse box. When I move the #30 fuse it will make the WTS light and the WATER IN FUEL light flicker and there is that clicking sound under the dash and in the drivers side engine compartment. It still won't start. Can someone help me figure out where to look for solutions???
 
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Old Jun 6, 2009 | 05:37 PM
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Unplug your fuel bowl heater replace #30. Drain the fuel bowl and check for water. How much fuel is in the tank? Did you recently fill up seomewhere different. Put your batteries on charge. The clicking under the dash is usually a dead givaway that the batteries are weak.
 
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