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Can anyone help I just bought a F250 HD 1997 4x4 extra cab with a 460 it has 117000 miles on it and i drove it about 10 miles the it stated running real bad and died it would not start so I switched the fuel to the rear tank and it runs fine if i switch back to that tank it dies what should i do?
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Run the rear tank...
Does the front tank have fuel? if reading is yes, maybe guage is off. I would start there...
I think they go into bypass if the pump fails or something. Rear tank then is it, till issue corrected. It is not uncommon for the sending unit to fail but pump to work fine, Sometimes the tank just looses a good ground
Does the front tank have fuel? if reading is yes, maybe guage is off. I would start there...
I think they go into bypass if the pump fails or something. Rear tank then is it, till issue corrected. It is not uncommon for the sending unit to fail but pump to work fine, Sometimes the tank just looses a good ground
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I agree, make sure it has gas in the tank first. I don't recall if that model year has filters in the tanks or just inline. But filters need to be checked out needless to say.
If that doesn't do it drop the gas tank pull out the gas pick up and sending unit and replace it. Could be the screen is plugged with gunk. Even if it looks to be good, go ahead and replace it..it is not an expensive part. After all the truck has 117K miles on it, and you probally don't want to have to do the job of dropping the tank again in the future.
In the good ole days, this would be time to pull out the Old Chilton manual and start looking. but no days I don't even know if Chilton still makes manuals because everything is on the net.
Good Luck,
If that doesn't do it drop the gas tank pull out the gas pick up and sending unit and replace it. Could be the screen is plugged with gunk. Even if it looks to be good, go ahead and replace it..it is not an expensive part. After all the truck has 117K miles on it, and you probally don't want to have to do the job of dropping the tank again in the future.
In the good ole days, this would be time to pull out the Old Chilton manual and start looking. but no days I don't even know if Chilton still makes manuals because everything is on the net.
Good Luck,
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some how it looks like the tank moved around a little and pulled on the wires going into the tank they were very tight I made sure all were plugged in tight and now its up and going I love these kind of fixes
