blowedupmotor87
1/2 ton status
So, trying to resurrect a truck that has been sitting for quite a while. It ran like a top a year ago, has sat in the same spot since until yesterday when the guy who's house it is at started it and moved it from the backyard to the front for me to look at. After he shut it off, it won't run. He poured some fuel down the carb and it ran awesome but, cut off after that starved away. (fuel lines when unbolted are dry as a desert.
So, I figure a tank sucked up something bad so, I try to hook a gas can full of fresh gas to the fuel pump to see. Siphoned gas into the the larger of the two lines line ((got a nice mouth full of gas doing that, YUCK!!!!) I assume the 3/8" line is the feed line, and the 1/4" the return?), tried to start, nothing. Lines between the pump and the carb are still dry. SO first question-, is there a manner in which I need to prime the fuel pump, or should it just do so on its own???
I went ahead and assumed it should self prime so, took the stock pump off. Now, I cannot get the new pump in!!!! I wrestled with it for 2 hours before I gave up in disgust. Even tried the old one just to see if there was a problem with the new one, can't get it in either.
I see the pushrod, I coated it in grease (figuring the surface tension of the grease would hold it up, it does but not well) and pushed it up and tried repeatedly to get the pump in. Can the pump pushrod maybe go further up into the block depending on the position of the crank???? Would I be risking any engine damage if I give the starter a bump a couple times and check to see if the rod will go further in???? (I would withdraw it as far as I can before giving the starter a bump well, no need to withdraw, it drops on its own quite readily) Just bump, check, bump, check, bump, until the point of furthest insertion???
I've not replaced a mechanical pump before so, it's a new thing to me. Any help would be appreciated because I spent most of the day today driving back and forth getting stuff for that truck and going back out to it to try and tinker on it some more (1 hour round trip to an auto parts store from where it is, and 1 hour from my house when needing to get a tool!) and I am super frustrated right now!!!!!!!!
So, I figure a tank sucked up something bad so, I try to hook a gas can full of fresh gas to the fuel pump to see. Siphoned gas into the the larger of the two lines line ((got a nice mouth full of gas doing that, YUCK!!!!) I assume the 3/8" line is the feed line, and the 1/4" the return?), tried to start, nothing. Lines between the pump and the carb are still dry. SO first question-, is there a manner in which I need to prime the fuel pump, or should it just do so on its own???
I went ahead and assumed it should self prime so, took the stock pump off. Now, I cannot get the new pump in!!!! I wrestled with it for 2 hours before I gave up in disgust. Even tried the old one just to see if there was a problem with the new one, can't get it in either.
I see the pushrod, I coated it in grease (figuring the surface tension of the grease would hold it up, it does but not well) and pushed it up and tried repeatedly to get the pump in. Can the pump pushrod maybe go further up into the block depending on the position of the crank???? Would I be risking any engine damage if I give the starter a bump a couple times and check to see if the rod will go further in???? (I would withdraw it as far as I can before giving the starter a bump well, no need to withdraw, it drops on its own quite readily) Just bump, check, bump, check, bump, until the point of furthest insertion???
I've not replaced a mechanical pump before so, it's a new thing to me. Any help would be appreciated because I spent most of the day today driving back and forth getting stuff for that truck and going back out to it to try and tinker on it some more (1 hour round trip to an auto parts store from where it is, and 1 hour from my house when needing to get a tool!) and I am super frustrated right now!!!!!!!!
