A little slow too start sorta...
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From: Brandon,MS
A little slow too start sorta...
I have a 01' 7.3 and my wife called and said that she feels like when she goes to crank the truck in the morning that for the past 2 days seems like a little slow to crank....wait to start light comes on, can hear fuel pump priming as should and when it turns over the tach starts to move like it should as well. She parks it for about 8 hours til she gets off work and then she says she feels like it happens then as well. The temps here the last few days been around 50 in the am and 78 roughly in the pm. The oil is still fairly new as I still have 2500 miles before I was gonna change it( 5000 mile interval). I drove it the other nite and sorta noticed this but had no problem with the start, truck had been sitting 2 days so just kinda left it at that.... I know to check the HPOP levels and oil levels and batterys and GPR and GP's any thing else you guys may can think.... Yes Rick(miller_feed) you will be getting a call this afternoon on this one....
I'm at work now and cant look at it right now but will be checking responses and letting you guys know what I find.... Thanks again Guys and Gals.....
Truck Has about 170k on it BTW, thought some may wanna know
Ron
I'm at work now and cant look at it right now but will be checking responses and letting you guys know what I find.... Thanks again Guys and Gals.....
Truck Has about 170k on it BTW, thought some may wanna know
Ron
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Hey Ron. I had something like that happen to me a few weeks ago. I checked the batts with a meter and come to find out the clamps were not getting a good connection to the post. I used one of those battery cleaners on the post and connectors, never had a problem after that.
But I know how things happen to you, so it might be a little easer then dirty post.
But I know how things happen to you, so it might be a little easer then dirty post.
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Hey Ron. I had something like that happen to me a few weeks ago. I checked the batts with a meter and come to find out the clamps were not getting a good connection to the post. I used one of those battery cleaners on the post and connectors, never had a problem after that.
But I know how things happen to you, so it might be a little easer then dirty post.
But I know how things happen to you, so it might be a little easer then dirty post.
Just weird how this just started...and like I said it has no trouble cranking just kinda slower than before.
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Well once again Rick was right, My battery connectors are pretty bad and gonna get them cleaned by the weekend......Thanks for the help once again Rick and I will let you know this weekend......
BTW drink another one for me hahahahahahaha.....
BTW drink another one for me hahahahahahaha.....
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I just put dual optima batterys in mine and it cranks like a champ! dont even need glow plugs anymore!
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