Look at the clear plastic intake fuel screen right between the steel tube and the injection pump , left inner fender area ~ if there's any crud in that screen , remove it and blow it out backwards & re install , go buy two more of these and be _SURE_ to only accept the clear ones so you can -SEE- the dirty fuel before it clogs & causes poor running .
If there's lots of crud in there , I'd replace the spin on secondary filter too , fill it with Power Service DIESEL KLEEN before installing the new filter , Power Service products are found in truck stops , Auto Zone , O'Reilley's and other FLAPS .
Also , look at the firewall where the throttle linkage has a pivot , it was white plastic when hew but often crubles and allows the linkage to flop instead of only allowing rotation , if this is bad , make up a new part of cork or whatever and begin searching for a new one by price . when this bushing thing goes bad , it allows the linkage to liftbup instead of rotate and open the fuel in the injection pump .
Don't panic ! most of the time it's some simple thing or a loose screw etc.
-Nate
Trish wrote:
>
> Yesterday I was on a small grade on the freeway when my car lost most of
> it's power and I had to floor it, I still got passed up by an eighteen
> wheeler!
>
> Once I got to the crest the car appeared to get it's power back. I made it
> to camp and Kevin. We checked the oil, and had to put in a couple of
> quarts. I checked it before I left the house, less than 50 miles earlier
> and I had plenty.
>
> I left camp and could barely make it up the hill to the gate. I went back,
> we checked the oil again. It was fine.
>
> Kevin got in and drove and it just had no power. We went down the service
> road and around in a loop. He couldn't get it to shift.
>
> He had just said I had to take the truck home, he didn't see how I was
> going to get there in the car, when all of a sudden the car started running
> perfect.
>
> We went back to camp, checked everything we could think of and I headed
> out.
>
> I was fine until I had to climb a hill over the freeway to the FM road.
> Again, barely made it up the hill, no power, then just when I came over the
> crest it was OK.
>
> The rest of the way home, flat or hills it ran like a dog.
>
> I put some Startron in today. Kevin had looked at the fuel filters before
> I left camp and said the clear one looked dirty. I hope that's my problem.
>
> And the oil consumption now is from the tube running to the bottom at the
> turbo.
>
> Also, he watched as I left and said it's belching grey smoke. Oh go ahead
> and tell me. I can take it. Mark sent me a link to a Kent video on
> rebuilding the turbo.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Trish Dougherty
> PurrFect Harmony Farm
> Ennis, TX
> http:/purrfectharmonyfarm.intuitwebsites.com
>
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