Last fillup, on saturday. Looks like the MPG has gone up to 13. But... That could be because I am missing a receipt, for a small fillup. I am not sure.
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Speaking of fillup... I have to hold the filler nozzle, tilted as far up as possible. In other words, stick the nozzle in the filler neck.Then tilt the hose end of the nozzle as far in the air as possible. Otherwise it is constantly turning itself off.
I know everyone is going to say that I need to fix the vent. That isn't going to get done anytime this winter. Instead I have another solution for a while.
I bought a rubber strap. I use it to hold the nozzle in position, while filling up. Problem is, the strap is a bit short. So I have to stretch it way tight. Solution: Today I drilled holes in the top of the bed siderails, to hook the hooks into.
This truck has been used and abused by lumberjacks, etc, all it's life. The bed is so damaged no one is going to notice a few extra holes.
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Today, I also put gorilla tape all along the top of the windshield.
It's cold enough that I left the roll of gorilla tape above the heater, until right before I took it out and applied it.
Seemed to stick pretty good. The test will be whether it stops the leak at the top of the windshield or not.
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Lastly, I took ALL the wires but one, from the glow plug controller, loose. Red, white, green and yellow. Left the blue one alone. It doesn't matter.
Put the red one from the ignition switch, back onto the top of the solenoid. Ran my own white wire from the other side of the solenoid, into the cab. Put a momentary on button on that, and ran the other side of the button to ground.
Tried it. It worked. At least as well as it did before. I think the solenoid was/is going out. So the GPs had to be run for longer than I thought they should, to start it. But they DID work, because it started in the cold, and wouldn't at all, when it still wasn't working.
It's possible the parts I ordered may show up here as soon as tomorrow. If so, I'll build my own system immediately.
I'll get pics posted up here tomorrow, either way.
Also, after it got too dark to keep working, it occurred to me that maybe if the controller and/or solenoid were going bad... Maybe they ruined the brand new GPs? (Was leaving them on, or something?) So I will test the GPs themselves tomorrow, as well.