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Originally Posted by Brian 162
Wow, that truck is in great shape.
How old is the fuel pump?
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Thank you,
Other than getting crappy MPG, she has always been there for me. Sure there have been maintenance things over the years, but it’s always started and run.
Sorry for extremely late reply, 2025 was a blur after retiring from 31 years with the state and then jumping into a job on 1/2/2025, I called quits to that dumpster fire in November and catching back up o life. The fuel pump was replaced about five years before my post. I bought the truck in November of 1994 shortly after getting hired with the State. My first “new” car and I do not plan on getting rid of her.
The truck is now back at home and runs, here is the update.
So after doing what I could to fix the issue which mimicked both fuel and spark, I turned my man-card in at took her to a shop recommended by a friend who is a professional mechanic. I drove it to the shop about 15 miles away, and was able to keep it running well enough that it got there under it own power.
The shop (Shade Tree) now that I know what I know, and completely going against my gut feeling about taking any of my vehicles to a mechanic shop. But alas, with the new job, heavy travel, I just did not have time to burn. At first, they verified that all of my repairs were good and that they would need to did deeper. Fast forward eight months later, no progress, truck baked in summer heat, jacked up half ass repairs by experimentation, and now hearing…”well you did this and you did that” regarding my attempt to diagnose a problem myself. I elected to remove my truck from the shop. It got ugly to the point where I was borderline, threatening legal action if they did not release the truck back to me. I should like to add that the truck started at the front of the shop, but then ended up around the side of the building in the land of misfit toys stuffed behind a motorhome. It wasn’t an easy fix EASY money job so therefore it got put on the back burner. I was traveling so much that the time they were taking I really didn’t worry about too much because I just wasn’t around. So now, after the truck sitting at the shop for so long, it didn’t run. It wouldn’t even start, and the driver seat was completely broken in the back blown out.
I arranged the truck to be towed from that piece of **** shop to another mechanic that I have history with. A shop I should’ve taken the truck to initially, however, this other nightshade mechanic was recommended by somebody I knew. After the second shop took delivery of the truck, he determined that the fuel pump I replaced, went bad for whatever reason while the truck just sat for eight months, and needed to be replaced. The pump I replaced it with was a OEM Delphi fuel pump and it carried a lifetime warranty. So they replaced it. The parts didn’t cost anything, but I did have to pay for labor which I did not have a problem with. He also determined there were multiple connections that the other shop had screwed up because they were plugging and unplugging and ramming wires into things that they shouldn’t have been touching. Once he replaced the fuel pump and got the truck running, he knew within minutes what the problem was. It was a bad OEM EGR valve this entire time. The OEMEGR valve I did replace from the dealer, but I guess this is one of those cases where I got a bad or faulty fuel pump and an EGR valve, which led to the problematic issue that the truck had for almost a year and a half.
It was a very happy day to get the truck back finally. Now on a funny sidenote, when I went to go fill the truck up the first time after getting the fuel pump replaced, I’m sitting at the pump and it sounds like a waterfall under the truck. I’ve bend down take a gander and the underneath the truck and the ground just covered in fuel pouring out of the top of the fuel tank. It was just one of those things that the seal for the fuel pump apparently was bad and the Shop immediately corrected that issue. No fire so that was a good thing.
In the 31+ years of owning that truck, this is the absolutely first time she has ever left me standing there with no idea what was going on.
This is what I did in an attempt to fix it.
Work done:
New fuel filter
Rebuilt TBI with new injectors
New M.A.P. Sensor
New I.A.C.V.
New T.P.S.
New ignition control module
New coil module
New plugs
New cap
New rotor
New wires
New O2 sensor
New EGR valve
New EGR solenoid
New manifold temp sensor
New K&N air filter
New Distributor 11/3/2024
Cheers
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