My mighty max has been giving me some issues I thought I had figured out. Now I have a new/old issue that just showed its ugly head again. The truck is intermittently loosing power when I approach hills or depress the gas peddle past 1/4. Sometimes its fine and other times it will not go over 30MPH

It will begin to loose power very badly and then bucks and sputters and will not go over 45 on flat ground and about 20 on a hill. This issue comes and goes and I have put a lot of dry gas in it thinking water in fuel. No help! It idles perfectly so you do not know you have an issue until you start driving.

I thought I had a short or an open circuit because I had issues with the fuse panel and the interior light and clock and radio shorting out and noticed that the truck shortly after these things would happen would start to run bad. It was not immediately after but within a few hours. It may be just coincidence but it is worth noting.

Last night I filled the truck with fuel and the mileage began to drop like crazy again and it started to sputter again and had extreme loss of power. I have noticed when I fill the tank all the way up I have had this problem each time. Maybe coincidence.

Also if I try to put any extra gas in the truck after the pump pops it will run out on the ground. You also can smell gas outside the truck after a fill up. Everything looks tight but something in the fill tube leaks if you try to put an extra gallon in it once the gas pump clicks. I now just round it off to the nearest dollar and stop.

Like I said I thought my fuse panel being corroded real bad was the issue and I fixed it all and got the light and clock and radio all working great. After I did that the sputtering loss of power went away but it still got real bad MPG. Something around 9 or 10MPG.

Then today for some reason it has began sputtering and getting about 7mpg and has extreme loss of power. When driving around town all seems fine. You try to go over 45 and it shows up.

I looked thru the archives here and found no real solution to this kind of an issue. Any ideas?

On a side note I am not sure how the front differential works but I may have my passenger side front 4x4 staying engaged. The truck pulls very hard to the right. Very hard! If you engage the 4x4 it stops. Take it out of 4x4 and it pulls like crazy to the right. Weird or what?

I want to get this truck running well but I may have to torch it if all this keeps up and I cant figure this stuff out without spending 3000 bucks to do so. The truck is not worth to much money being dumped into it even though it is pretty much rust free.

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