IDIBRONCO
IDIBRONCO
Man, it sounds like you have quite a crime problem for that size of a town.
Yes sir, about 250 live here, I chased one druggy with my diesel. The property I have behind my house is about 3 acres, was told they sell and do drugs back there. My dogs would fire up between 23:30 and 2. I'd go out with flash light and gun. Then 4 dogs died in 4 weeks poisoned, and a bit after that one was shot in the head. And all this theft. Here are "some" photos of what we've been through, not included is this last month. Just go down to the "imgur" link and click for pics.Man, it sounds like you have quite a crime problem for that size of a town.
The glow plug light stays on about 15 seconds. When the mech changed the hoses and "O" rings on the injectors, he said they were stamped 1997 if I recall correctly.If your vacuum is good, the line from the vacuum tee to your booster is good, then you need your booster replaced or repaired to restore your power brakes.
Ditto on what Franklin2 said.
1) Pedal sinks a little and gets hard to push is usually you have a bad vacuum pump or a bad brake booster.
2) Pedal goes to the floor. Most common is the master cylinder but brake lines or components leaking can also cause this. If you ever have bled brakes you know how it goes.
Many have experienced that after flushing brakes or bleeding brakes the abs light is on. Some have had luck bleeding the brakes at the abs valve under the truck other have not and replaced or bypassed it.
The diesel leaking and hard starting usually go hand in hand. Once you have a air leak your system drains back to the tank and looses prime. It takes a while for the lift pump to fill everything up again and once you start it runs a little rough till all the air bleeds out. Use some rags and brake clean to clean around the injectors to see which ones leak and fix. Also check your metal injector line fittings that they are all snug at the pump and the injectors. Also that the fuel filter is tight. It is likely once you fix your leak you will start right up after sitting again.
You also said at times when cold out it will not start. That sounds more like a glow plug problem than your air leak. Your wait to start light should go on for at least 8-15 seconds while your glow plugs warm up. If it does not go on or just goes on for 1 sec then off, you have an issue. Most frequent is you have 3 or more glow plugs that are bad, so on a 7.3 it senses that (Senses a change of resistance or amps) and shuts off after 1 sec as a precaution. You can check the glow plugs on the engine with a ohm meter. Unplug, hold one lead on a good ground, the other on the top glow plug post. Some resistance is good but no resistance/open it’s bad. Use only Motorcraft glow plugs others swell or balloon and become hard to remove. If all are good then check if your wiring to and from the glow plug controller is good. One side is the glow plug wiring harness which can get old and brittle. Feeding power to the glow plug controller are the fusible links and lead wiring supplying 12v to the relay on the controller. These can have bad connections or short out and cause issues. Lastly check the controller to make sure it is functioning. They do go bad on occasion.
Sorry to hear about all your challenges, but it sounds like your luck is starting to change with your friends wife offering up some of his gear to you.
Assuming that everything is functional, it also runs the cruise control, the HVAC doors that control where the air comes out (dash, floor, defrost), and, if equipped, it partly controls the shift points in a C6 transmission. That's it as far as I know.Question: what else does the vacuum pump run?
Ah, thought my AC doors were cable like my 73' Scout. Its a 5-speed but it does have cruise control, now I'll have to try it, LolAssuming that everything is functional, it also runs the cruise control, the HVAC doors that control where the air comes out (dash, floor, defrost), and, if equipped, it partly controls the shift points in a C6 transmission. That's it as far as I know.
Ran AC on the way home, it was colder! Doors must have not been moving, lolAssuming that everything is functional, it also runs the cruise control, the HVAC doors that control where the air comes out (dash, floor, defrost), and, if equipped, it partly controls the shift points in a C6 transmission. That's it as far as I know.