long starts

I've been experiencing some long starts on my obs. In the morning or after sitting for a few hours she takes a bit to get going. It seems like it takes 5 seconds to get her started. When shes hot it will start right away. Tomorrow i'm going to check the fuel bowl and hpop to see what the levels are. Any ideas on what could cause this?

I think you have a good idea for the intial checks. My next would be to see how quickly it builds HP oil the the 500psi threshold.

Starter getting weak maybe? Heard that can cause it, more so when everything is cooled.

I just replaced the starter a week ago. How should i check the oil pressure?

Scan tool or a manual gauge would be the ticket for the HP oil check.

I checked the HPOP and fuel bowl and both levels were good. But i did notice this..



This battery is leaking acid on the top out of the hole covers. Could this possibly be the problem?

Tom S said:

Scan tool or a manual gauge would be the ticket for the HP oil check.

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I don't have a scan tool so I will have to manual gauge it. Where can i tap into to for this? And i need at least a 500psi gauge right.

I had the batteries out the other day because I was wiring up my strobe lights and my new recon f350 badges. When I the batteries back in they didn't have enough juice to start the truck. Just turn the motor over for a few seconds. So I jumped them and get the truck started and let them charge. Now I have this weird start issue in the morning. And it's only after it sits for a long period of time. Kinda makes me think my batteries are slowly going dead.

disconnect the lights you hooked up and see if that fixes it

You want a 5000lbs liquid filled gauge.

I fixed it. Turned out to be one of my batteries was bad.

Good deal on the fix.

Glad it was something easy