I cleaned the injectors myself with brake clean, when I was cleaning all the other parts of this motor, so I think they should be OK, I didn't touch the electrical stuff in them though...

OK, to catch you up to speed...

I think it is mostly fuel related but on top of that is the coil arching. but I think the coil arching has been there for a while, but I thought it was a valve tap in the 320K mile truck...

The reason I think it might be fuel is:
It had less then 1/8 when it sat for soo long.
As you stated above moisture/water sinks to the pickup...
I removed the fuel filter, and there was a lot of brownish fuel that came out of the low pressure (out) side of the filter..
I cleaned the filter up a little, reinstalled it (so not to mess up the new one if there is a lot of crap in the system, the new one will go on shortly) placed 3 little bottles of dry gas in it with about 5 galons of high test (premium) gas,
it started right up and ran for about 20 minutes (idle, and moving around the driveway) then stalled again..
Then it was hard to start again, let it sit for a while and then rocked the truck a little and it was tough to start but started and ran for a few minutes.

But here is the kicker... As it was running again I wanted see if I can stop the annoying coil snap, just to hear the motor run, so I took a think piece of cardboard and stuck it between the secondary coil post and the coil body (where it was arching) and as soon as it got in there the truck stalled out???

Either that is a huge coincedence or I have 2 problems that I am having a problem trouble shooting because they are conflicting with each other... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />


John Pszenyczniak
67 Mustang Coupe
95 Firebird Formula
05 Ram hemi 4x4
91 Montero RS LWB w/ 320k miles before rebuild, 900 down and its still kicking!!!