Sounds like what happened toi my truck when i had corroded battery
terminals. my feul pump just up and died in a parking lot, no warning. Try
cleaning your terminals and see what happens. I see dirty terminals with
there symptoms and the sympyoms of a dead battery at sears a lot. BTW stay
out with the mechanic if you ever get a battery at sears, even if your
current one comes up good on their tester, they still tell you its bad and
swindel you into a new battery. Only way to find out if its good is to stare
at the mechanic when he tests it. CAn you tell i dont like working there?
-Aaron
"Matt Erikson" <eaten_by_limestone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20011114121459.85092.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com...
> Yesterday morning I had half a tank. I put 12 gallons
> in at the local gas station. Then I drove apporx 40
> miles to work. All was fine.
>
> When driving home, I started loosing power on the
> Interstate. It even backfired. Then power would come
> back! I pulled over to a gas station and checked
> everything out as much as I could. I was hoping it
> wasn't a timing problem. Everything seemed to check
> out... nothing obvious was wrong. Ran through the
> general troubleshooting... Air... yep, Spark... yep,
> cause it would fire and turn over... Fuel... seemed to
> be getting it, but it also seemed to be the only thing
> that would be giving me these problems. Well, I
> bought a can of starter fluid and a can of dry gas (or
> the closest thing the gas station had to it.) and
> nursed it back another 20-30 miles. Then it stopped
> dead about 2 miles from my house.
>
> I got my neighbor to come out and help me with the
> truck. We took off the fuel filter, it was clear.
> There was a lot of pressure in front of the filter.
> We then checked the rails. We were able to bleed off
> a lot of pressure. Then we tried to pump the pressure
> back up. It would not go back up. So we figured fuel
> pump.
>
> I didn't hear the pump going when the key was turned.
>
>
> Are there any known problems with the wireing of the
> fuel system on a Gen II Dak? Before I drop the tank I
> figured I would run the senario by you folks and look
> for some opinions. I just find it strange that the
> problems would start about 40 miles after I filled up.
> It probbaly woukld take that long for the fuel in the
> lines to be replaced with the bad fuel. Then the
> truck would run intermittantly for the next 30 miles
> or so.
>
> Please help.
>
> Matt
>
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