Hey all, I haven't been on here much and just realiszed I am a user, using this forum for knowledge and only coming on here when I have a problem or question, sorry!!!
So heres my problem this time.
My rebuilt motor was running well after help from FrankR, conner, and everyone else who helped in this thread.
http://www.4x4wire.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=790870Well it was running god for about 700 miles then it starting having problems.
Everything seamed fine when driving on the highway the other night coming home from work but when I got to the bottom of the ramp the truck idled really low and almost wanted to stall. I gave it a little gas and luckily the light changed in my favor so I continued home, everything felt good except after a few seconds of sitting at idle the idle dropped and felt like it would stall. when I got home I let it idle for about a minute to a minute and a half and it did eventually stall.
I restarded it and it did it again, after a minute or so of low bad idle. so I was thinking the AIC vavle was probably not working to hold the idle where it should or something. I then tested it and the numbers were as they should. I restarted the truck and it ran fine for a few minutes, I shut it down thinking whatever it was went away.
The next morning I went to work, and everything was working like normal, the idle when cold was about 2000 RPM's an again I was thinking it was and IAC issue, but it has been this way for a while and I cleaned the iac twice. I went to work and it was driving well then I came to a stop at a light and it stalled within a few seconds of stopping. I restarted and it was hard to restart, and I had to keep giving it gas to stop from stalling, when I left the light it was sputtering and not accelerating much at all and then stalled while driving, after another hard start I attempted to get it out of the left lane but it stalled again and wouldn't restart at all, this made me think fuel issue. I pulled the plugs and attempted to trun the motor over and wasn't getting the blowing out of fuel like I did before when troubleshooting the issue right after installing the motor, which backs up the fuel issue idea.
I added about 5 gal of high test and fuel sstem cleaner and still not coming out into the cyl's like before. I can't hear the fuel pump when my wife turned the key to on or when attempting to start, but heard it after she stopped trying to start, I assume it was running when she was trying to start the truck and I couldn't hear it over the started spinning the motor.
I pulled the fuel filter and it wasn't clogged, and if it was it wasn't too bad, I could nblow through it with almost no restriction. I put it back in and there was no change it the amount of fuel I could perceive through the spark plug holes and still not start. I got a new fuel filter anyway, and will try that this weekend, and wonder what anyone else might think...