1992camarors
Registered User
Ok I'm trying to get my ole girl up and running. This truck has not been started in almost 2 years. So last night I charged both the batteries up which were new in 2005, so they held the charge great. I then replaced all 4 battery terminals because the old ones were corroded. Then thanks to you guys I got all my vac. lines fixed and ran correctly. The oil looked decent in the truck, so I decided to give her a crank. I still had my car jumping the main battery so they wouldn't get low from all the cranking. At first all it did was crank over and over with nothing. Then after a lot of hesitation I got the ether out and sprayed a few shots in the intake, and she fired right up. It wouldn't idle by itself so I had to give it gas the whole time to keep it running. It ran well for about 4 or 5 minutes, then all of a sudden it just shut off like it ran out of fuel? So I put 5 gallons of new diesel in it and still no start. So I kept trying the ether and all it would do was run for like a second and then die. I did not crank for more than 15 seconds at a time so I wouldn't over heat the starter. But what could this problem be?? Its like its not getting fuel? Do you think the filter could be clogged? Is there somthing that could be cleaned to help the fuel flow?