DowneyB
Professional
As said, I have an interesting case. The truck runs now. I was having this problem before, and it was suggested that I advance the timing, which I did. The marks are about and eighth of an inch apart, which I am told is near correct. Anyway, the symptoms:
It ran really well for about an hour or so of my two hour trip. Then it lost power in the course of about 5 minutes. Then I had no power and could not maintain 60 mph on gentle hills. But it kept running all the way here.
After I got here and unloaded stuff and all, I parked it, and then we had Finals Week, so I did nothing with it all week. The only odd thing that I noticed was that for some reason it was not leaking fuel any more, even though I had not patched the tank. (On recollection, it may be the return line, not the tank that was leaking.) Until about two days later, then it left a nice patch of diesel in the lot.
I finally drove it today, and it started pretty good, and had plenty of power. For about 15-20 minutes anyway, then it had a hard time getting out of its own way. It idles a little rough as well.
Any ideas? I can only imagine that it is a fuel problem, but I am not even sure where to start.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought I would try my best to describe the problem.
Brock
It ran really well for about an hour or so of my two hour trip. Then it lost power in the course of about 5 minutes. Then I had no power and could not maintain 60 mph on gentle hills. But it kept running all the way here.
After I got here and unloaded stuff and all, I parked it, and then we had Finals Week, so I did nothing with it all week. The only odd thing that I noticed was that for some reason it was not leaking fuel any more, even though I had not patched the tank. (On recollection, it may be the return line, not the tank that was leaking.) Until about two days later, then it left a nice patch of diesel in the lot.
I finally drove it today, and it started pretty good, and had plenty of power. For about 15-20 minutes anyway, then it had a hard time getting out of its own way. It idles a little rough as well.
Any ideas? I can only imagine that it is a fuel problem, but I am not even sure where to start.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought I would try my best to describe the problem.
Brock