Went to town on sunday.
On the way home, I ran out of gas.
Or did I? Yes, I did. Or did I? Yes, I did. Or did I? Yes I did......
I hope you get the picture. I "ran out of gas", (and yes, I know it's diesel, and I had better NOT have gas in there. Bite me. ) 6 times. Fiddled with the fuel selector valve 5 times, and got it to start up and drive again for any where from a 1/4 mile to 4 or 6 miles, then 'ran out of gas' again, and went through it all over again. Final time it simply would not start again, no matter how much fiddling I did with the switch. Neither tank works.
Here's the strange stuff first. (As if it wasn't strange to 'run out of gas', and then start up again, and drive awhile then run out again, the start agai..... yeah.)
*I am pretty sure the rear tank ran completely out of fuel and that is what started this whole debacle. Howsomever, when a friend picked me up, we got some diesel, and I tried pouring it into the rear tank, it was as if the rear tank was already over full. It took about a half gallon, then overflowed. I tried again after letting it settle down. A few times, it "burperd" then took a bit more. But never took more than a quart at a time. And finally, the fuel was sitting right up at the top of the filler neck, about to spill out, and would NOT go down any further. No amount of shaking would do it. Put a stick down in there, no change in the level. Etc. So... Like the tank was over full. (But checking it again this morning, that fuel is no longer sitting up at the neck of the filler. So, go figger.)
As I said, I swear that rear tank should have been completely empty.
*When fiddling with the switch... I never could get it to start again, on the front tank. But the front tank should have been half full. Every time that it started again, it started on the rear tank. But that tank should have been empty. Yadda yadda You see where this is going.
*I am positive that the amount of fuel that could have possibly been in BOTH tanks, would not have come close to filling up one tank. So it couldn't have been that it pulled from one tank and returned to another. Etc.
I ended up having to get a tow. The tow guy wrote down the mileage on his records.... 131666. We both got a laugh out of that! (And yes, you can probably add at least 400k to that.)
Life intervened.
Today I am getting to the job of testing and seeing if I can get this thing started and working again.
Yes, I know. Bleeding and all that. I don't need the simple advice. Just kind of recording this, as a way to keep my thoughts straight, and maybe bounce things off you guys as I go along. Hear what you have to say. Etc...
Since I have had time to think about this, I have decided to start with the switch on the dash. I had the dash apart, not that long ago. It's a long shot, but it's possible I didn't get the connector back onto the switch, well enough. Either way, I will test the switch, and the connector. Then will probably jumper the connector, just to take the switch completely out of the equation.
If that doesn't get some fuel coming up to the filter, (Yeah, no fuel up at the filter right now. It's not just not at the injectors. It's not making it to the filter head.), then I'll have to crawl under and check out the selector valve.
Wish me luck.
On the way home, I ran out of gas.
Or did I? Yes, I did. Or did I? Yes, I did. Or did I? Yes I did......
I hope you get the picture. I "ran out of gas", (and yes, I know it's diesel, and I had better NOT have gas in there. Bite me. ) 6 times. Fiddled with the fuel selector valve 5 times, and got it to start up and drive again for any where from a 1/4 mile to 4 or 6 miles, then 'ran out of gas' again, and went through it all over again. Final time it simply would not start again, no matter how much fiddling I did with the switch. Neither tank works.
Here's the strange stuff first. (As if it wasn't strange to 'run out of gas', and then start up again, and drive awhile then run out again, the start agai..... yeah.)
*I am pretty sure the rear tank ran completely out of fuel and that is what started this whole debacle. Howsomever, when a friend picked me up, we got some diesel, and I tried pouring it into the rear tank, it was as if the rear tank was already over full. It took about a half gallon, then overflowed. I tried again after letting it settle down. A few times, it "burperd" then took a bit more. But never took more than a quart at a time. And finally, the fuel was sitting right up at the top of the filler neck, about to spill out, and would NOT go down any further. No amount of shaking would do it. Put a stick down in there, no change in the level. Etc. So... Like the tank was over full. (But checking it again this morning, that fuel is no longer sitting up at the neck of the filler. So, go figger.)
As I said, I swear that rear tank should have been completely empty.
*When fiddling with the switch... I never could get it to start again, on the front tank. But the front tank should have been half full. Every time that it started again, it started on the rear tank. But that tank should have been empty. Yadda yadda You see where this is going.
*I am positive that the amount of fuel that could have possibly been in BOTH tanks, would not have come close to filling up one tank. So it couldn't have been that it pulled from one tank and returned to another. Etc.
I ended up having to get a tow. The tow guy wrote down the mileage on his records.... 131666. We both got a laugh out of that! (And yes, you can probably add at least 400k to that.)
Life intervened.
Today I am getting to the job of testing and seeing if I can get this thing started and working again.
Yes, I know. Bleeding and all that. I don't need the simple advice. Just kind of recording this, as a way to keep my thoughts straight, and maybe bounce things off you guys as I go along. Hear what you have to say. Etc...
Since I have had time to think about this, I have decided to start with the switch on the dash. I had the dash apart, not that long ago. It's a long shot, but it's possible I didn't get the connector back onto the switch, well enough. Either way, I will test the switch, and the connector. Then will probably jumper the connector, just to take the switch completely out of the equation.
If that doesn't get some fuel coming up to the filter, (Yeah, no fuel up at the filter right now. It's not just not at the injectors. It's not making it to the filter head.), then I'll have to crawl under and check out the selector valve.
Wish me luck.