LumbermanSVO
Registered User
Hey guys, Due to some problems at home(Seattle) I pickup and moved in with my sister in Colorado Springs. I loaded the truck as much as I could and took off.
The trip went pretty smooth. on my 4 fule stops I got 13.5, 13.8, 15.5 and 13.4 MPG for the trip at 50-55MPH, the best I've ever gotten with this truck. (6.9/C6/4.10's/4x4) At one point I though I hosed the tranny in eastern Utah but it was my me still not being used to an auto. It did pretty well with the hill below 4000 feet but after that performance started dropping. My slowest was 30MPH in second going over a pass at 11,100FT. I don't have a pyro gauge so I just tried to keep the smoke to a slight gray haze and not a black plume.
I left Seattle at 10:30 Tuesday morning and got here at 3 Thursday afternoon.
Yesterday morning I went to start the truck and it did not want to start. It tries to start but just does catch. I could hear the glow plug relay working but it just didn't want to go. It took a lot of cranking but it finally fired and took off. I had no problems the rest of the day. The same thing happened this morning. I grabbed my DMM and I have 11.9 volts at the glow plugs when they are on. the voltage gauge on the dash drops from the mid 12's like normal when the GP's are on. This morning it finally started when I pumped the pedal rapidly while cranking for a long time. My initial thought is the lift pump.
It started just fine when warm and doesn't act like it did when it had leaking return lines. I ran B99 in it until I set out for this trip, if that matters. I was at sea level in Seattle, now I'm at 6000 Feet.
All my tools are burried in the front of the bed of the truck so working on it is not gonna be fun. Where should I start looking?
The trip went pretty smooth. on my 4 fule stops I got 13.5, 13.8, 15.5 and 13.4 MPG for the trip at 50-55MPH, the best I've ever gotten with this truck. (6.9/C6/4.10's/4x4) At one point I though I hosed the tranny in eastern Utah but it was my me still not being used to an auto. It did pretty well with the hill below 4000 feet but after that performance started dropping. My slowest was 30MPH in second going over a pass at 11,100FT. I don't have a pyro gauge so I just tried to keep the smoke to a slight gray haze and not a black plume.
I left Seattle at 10:30 Tuesday morning and got here at 3 Thursday afternoon.
Yesterday morning I went to start the truck and it did not want to start. It tries to start but just does catch. I could hear the glow plug relay working but it just didn't want to go. It took a lot of cranking but it finally fired and took off. I had no problems the rest of the day. The same thing happened this morning. I grabbed my DMM and I have 11.9 volts at the glow plugs when they are on. the voltage gauge on the dash drops from the mid 12's like normal when the GP's are on. This morning it finally started when I pumped the pedal rapidly while cranking for a long time. My initial thought is the lift pump.
It started just fine when warm and doesn't act like it did when it had leaking return lines. I ran B99 in it until I set out for this trip, if that matters. I was at sea level in Seattle, now I'm at 6000 Feet.
All my tools are burried in the front of the bed of the truck so working on it is not gonna be fun. Where should I start looking?