Laine D
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Hello. This forum has become extremely helpful in the past year I’ve been working on my truck. My issue today is I’m trying to get to the bottom of my truck sucking air and then it starving for fuel. I have a facet duralift, 9-11.5 psi pump. I bought it after reading the article on here and figured it was a good buy. Now I’m kinda debating weather or not it is so good. Ever since I put the pump on it had been fine for about 3 months. A couple weeks ago I did the shower head fix thing in the tanks. Got as much as the crap out as I could and put it back together with a new selector valve. Blew out all the lines and so forth. It ran great for about a week. I drove it pulling a 14000 pound forklift Through the sierras and Into Nevada and back and cruised 70 on the flat ground. Truck didn’t care. Once I got back I found out that something pretty bad must’ve happened or I messed it up because I am getting massive amounts of air and restriction on the front tank. Driving on the rear I don’t get as much air but at least once I day I will hit the little shraider valve on the filter and it’ll blow air for 1-3 seconds then a steady stream of fuel. I don’t have any return line leaks on the motor and all the fuel connections on the way back seem fine. Some days there isn’t any air in the filter either. Even when there isn’t any air it will fall on its face at anything over 2000 rpm and at any cruising speed I can feel it surging. The pump has a clear bowl and sometimes the fuel level in the bowl is about half way full. Looking at the pump I realized that the pickup only gets to the fuel when the bowl is at least at 3/4 full. I don’t have a fuel psi gauge but I’m assuming it’s pretty bad psi. I will be getting one soon. Does anybody have any idea what this could be? I’m already planning on converting to a single tank to get rid of all the extra stuff and have room where the front tank is to have a better E fuel setup.