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PLEASE HELP! FAST! Caution: kind of a long post

JPMSK5 said:
All right :rolleyes:one more thing, water bottle mister, Wally World(wal-mart) mist spray your wires and coil with water and see if it misfires. If it does find the problem and repair. We use Taylor wires and never had a problem.
I run 6A MSD, and we have put them on 8 too and never had problems on racing mud trucks but not advise it, static will still get you with them on an 8 MSD.
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Ok, will do. Thanks for the advice. I'll do it before I go to the parts store so I know what I need.

Where in KS are you? Gettin' any snow yet?


Thanks,

Jason
 
HA HA, 6 to 8 inches, my rear, we might have 1 inch. Got 1.25 inches of ice earlier this week. Now that kicked my butt. I had hot powerlines fall on top of me Tue morning almost. I almost crapped myself. I had my service truck hooked to the house for power and all my neighbors were here getting water because we all have wells, No power=No water. I am thankful for the little damage to my house. My gas meter was missed by about 6inches from a huge branch and another Y shaped huge branch split my well and missed it. My yard looks like a war zone. For 3 days I ran the crap out of my K5 helping people and winching fallen trees out of the way. I blew something on or in the trans though. Its bleeding red now but still running, never have enough trans for the SB I build. This one on paper is 403hp but they never put out that much, probably 375-385 atmost at the crank. Around 345 at the wheels I guess. Need gears!! Anyway, ouch, book, not much snow, dont see that much coming on radar.
 
we had a crapload of ice too. Branches down everywhere, power out to the whole town. Sunday - Thursday night no power to my house. Still probably half the town w/o power. They were calling for 5-10 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow, probably won't get but 1 or 2.

Later,

jason
 
tRustyK5 said:
You need to calm down a bit dude...nobody here gets a cookie if their interweb diagnosis is right.
Rene
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Awe man :doah: I wanted a choco chip cookie for my glass of ice cold milk :(
Thanks Rene!! Now I am wanting those really big cookies that they sell at the mall. :mad:
 
I'll throw in another suggestion if it hasn't been checked yet....

Check the dizzy cap also. Not sure what type your using, but my truck seems to go through MSD caps (Pro Billet dizzy) pretty fast. I get a lot of green oxidation on the terminals inside the cap, and the center button has completely blown-out twice now.

The best I can figure is that the moisture in the cap can't escape, then the terminals start to corrode...then the 6AL box keeps cranking up the juice to compensate for the weak spark/high resistance and eventually burns through the center button.

Amazingly, the truck will run with a LOT of crud on those terminals but it acts a lot like you describe.....decent at idle, but it won't get up and go when I give it some fuel.

No cookies required if this works. :wink1:


ps. BTW -> MSD must get a lot of complaints about this, because I've noticed that the new caps have a small mushroom shaped cover on the outside over what appears to be breather hole.....presumably to let moisture evaporate out. :dunno:
 
I would bet money on the temp sensor. Get the one that comes with the pigtail. I have replaced them on several trucks. Truck will run fine until the thermostat opens and when the warm water hits the sensor, it goes crazy. I have seen them even short to ground before.
Unplug it and see if the problem goes away. If it does, you have found your problem.
 
blazin_blazer said:
ur a figgin genuis...1st off didn't ur 2nd grade teacher teach u that the only dumb ? is the ? u don't ask....taking u r serious when u ask and u onestly dk!

2ndly....the temp gauge must be working if he knos its around 120-140* when it turns to sputtering

3rd a overheating engine doesn't always run like a turd...i had a 455 ponti in a demo car run a 400* temp gauge pegged, and it was screaming....it ran better than ever....granted i couldn't turn it off, so much ether in gas and glowing exhaust valves=run w/o plug wires.... it would sit there and sorta diesel and lope 4ever had to stuff rags in carb to stop air to shut it down

how do u get the magical conclusion of water in engine
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Here's another helpful tip that goes a long ways: don't type stuff here like you do on your cell phone when text messaging. Its irritating and childish as thats what high school kids do.
 
thatK30guy said:
Here's another helpful tip that goes a long ways: don't type stuff here like you do on your cell phone when text messaging. Its irritating and childish as thats what high school kids do.
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Well, remember that the demographic of CK5 is moving rapidly towards that very point, and for them it's perfectly valid communication. :haha:

Unfortunately, for those of us who graduated from schools who actually cared -- yes, we had some children left behind! -- you are dead on the money, as I refuse to take the time to decode that crap.

To be clear: "Ur" was a city in Mesopotamia. It is not a word in the English language, and in the interest of having others READ your posts (not "ur" posts!), please use English.

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1 more tip, dielectric grease on every I mean every connector plug, from just a spade terminal to weather head plugs to spark plug boots, to the trailer plug. It will seal out moisture and prevent air corrosion.

2 tip--have seen older spark plug boots get rippes like AC plug, and change the plugs to a smooth style plug, bosch, and the air in the rippes get hot and discharge the plug wire along the outside of the spark plug instead of through it. Mister water Bottle find

3-4 inches of snow:doah:
 
man i wish it would sno here...i thought that stuff was headed right at me at 1st....haven't seen snow in 3-4 yrs!

so you can decipher lmfao but dont c=see and u=you....or was it the dk that thru u?j/k
whats wrong w/ short short hand....and btw(by the way) i'm 36 and i'm a henpeck typer :-(
 
Wish harder, I hate the winter, we are field mechanics, 1in of ice with 4-5 inches of snow on top is not my idea of a convenant work place.
 
My thoughs in this order of likelyness:

1. Ignition module or pickup coil. When they go bad, they might work when it is cold, but go wonky when they get hot.

2. Low coolant, or a bad coolant temp sensor. The ECM uses a different temp sensor than the gauge in your instrument cluster, just cause the cluster sensor is right, does not mean that the ECM sensor is right. Use a multimeter and check it's resistance when it is both hot, and cold. You should be able to find the table of values that are in spec on the net without too much trouble.
 
but whatcha going to do after work??? after you thaw? (saturday...sno on the ground, my work would be closed...mail don't even run when it snows here and only 4x4s out) i know what you mean,i worked in indiana for awhile....never seen so much snow....it buried stop signs w/ drifts :-O....i had never been happier to be a welder...almost like a radiant heater in your hand...i found some awesome winter clothes up there...they make my winter like its nothing! and osh kosh...can't find it down here either...i miss my osh kosh over-all..i wore them out
 
didnt mean to hijack the thread, did ya get the truck running yet? :confused:
If ya did, you can test drive and come up here and pull the trans out of mine and find the leak under the converter cover;)If you got spindles and hubs for a D60, ya can put that in too.:rolleyes:Just kiding!
Let us know what you found was wrong with it.:D
 
sorry it took so long to get back

replaced coil, and dist. cap still not running good.

will check the coolant temp sensor next.

got less than an inch of snow

Thanks for the help guys
 
JPMSK5 said:
didnt mean to hijack the thread, did ya get the truck running yet? :confused:
If ya did, you can test drive and come up here and pull the trans out of mine and find the leak under the converter cover;)If you got spindles and hubs for a D60, ya can put that in too.:rolleyes:Just kiding!
Let us know what you found was wrong with it.:D
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Where in KS are you? If I can ever get this thing running we should go wheeling sometime if you're not too far away. My buddies and I are planning on heading down to Disney, OK Dec. 29th if I can get mine running. You're welcome to go. Hell, everyones welcome!

Sorry no extra spindles and hubs.

Later,

Jason
 
Thanks for the invite. I aint wheeled in years. My K5 scares the hell out of me. It picks up tires and wants to tip over all the time. Sure not like my short bed, I had.
 
I agree with Russel, try changing the ignition module inside the distributor. I had one go bad on one of my old trucks and it had the same symptoms as yours. It's a quick fix and pretty cheap. I can't remember if you said that you changed the rotor but that could be it too!



Hold my beer & watch this!
 
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