hehehe... i work wal mart part time when i'm not workin at the air base. we
have to pull the battery out and put them on the tester in the garage
now...the portable tester walked away.......dangit. and wal marts tire an
lube express doesnt have the sears tool budget...dangit....
~ Paul
98 Dak, RC,Deep Amethyst
V8/5 Speed/ 3.91 Suregrip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Gasparich" <acg302@ptd.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 6:29 AM
Subject: DML: Re: Is it the fuel pump or the gas?
> 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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