Long crank before oil pressure builds and truck fires.

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It is debatable if the Melling is superior to the stock Ford.

The Melling may have an improved georotor design but the Melling has a georotor only 0.93" thick, the Ford georotor is 1.300" thick. I measured them myself. One of my buddys installed a Mellings with a Twin Terminator and high oil demand injectors (B-Codes) and experienced oil feed problems. Installed a stock Ford and the problem disappeared.

On my new engine with simular injector/hpop setup, I'm going with the Ford.

But I'm a noob so what do I know?:dunno
 

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Oh hell, had in mind he was going to check the pickup tube for cracked.
 

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As a check for the pickup tube being cracked, back the truck up a ramp. That will submerge the entire pickup tube so it doesn't suck air. Then try starting.
 

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There's no cracks in the pickup tube every thing I've read is that there will be no start at all with a cracked tube till you do like you said. And this developed while the truck sat
 

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Yea pulled the check ball in the one way valve it was gummbed up and the problem went away
 

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