fatherdoug
Tonto Papadapolous
I posted this in another thread, but I thought I should also post it here for that once in a lifetime troubleshooting fix.
I was towing my camp trailer home from camping, and had to drive down a 1mile terrible washboard road to get to a RV dump station. When I got there, I shut off the engine, did the nasty deed, then got in the truck and tried to start the engine. The truck would turn over, but would not start.
I thought that was very curious, because the fuel pump, mechanical switching valve, and fuel filter were all less than a year old. I farted around with the fuel system for about two hours, with no results.
I then crawled under the truck one more time for the tenth time, and I discovered a ground strap had vibrated off between the cab and the frame. This is a spring steel connection to the frame that had worked its way off the frame, but was still connected to the cab. I reattached the ground strap to the frame, and the truck started immediately. I was so happy, and so mad at the same time. I had spent two hours stuck at the dump station with nowhere to go.
And that's no shit!
I was towing my camp trailer home from camping, and had to drive down a 1mile terrible washboard road to get to a RV dump station. When I got there, I shut off the engine, did the nasty deed, then got in the truck and tried to start the engine. The truck would turn over, but would not start.
I thought that was very curious, because the fuel pump, mechanical switching valve, and fuel filter were all less than a year old. I farted around with the fuel system for about two hours, with no results.
I then crawled under the truck one more time for the tenth time, and I discovered a ground strap had vibrated off between the cab and the frame. This is a spring steel connection to the frame that had worked its way off the frame, but was still connected to the cab. I reattached the ground strap to the frame, and the truck started immediately. I was so happy, and so mad at the same time. I had spent two hours stuck at the dump station with nowhere to go.
And that's no shit!
