Another Fuel in the Valley thread

Redpower · Oct 3, 2014

I did a bunch of searching without out many answers to my question.... Truck has 193k on it and everything is original to my knowledge. The truck has a massive leak in the valley and I plan to tear out the bowl and rebuild it. I also plan the put new rubber hoses on. While I have everything apart do I replace the mechanical pump? Right now I have no way of telling if it is leaking out of the weep hole.

Patrick Feeley · Oct 4, 2014

It's hard to say. If you have the funds and only want to do the work once, do it all now. If not you can do just the bowl rebuild with new hoses and see if the leak is still present. After doing fuel pumps a number of times, it wouldn't bother me to do it twice (not counting my current Cali 97 ... different story there). Cheers!

ghohouston · Oct 4, 2014

unless youre just set on doing all that, id run a garden hose (or pressure wash the motor if your motor is filthy) through the valley, dry with compressed air, and start it up. crawl up there with a flashlight and mirror, you will find you leak. it could be the pumps weep hole, the copper washers on the banjo, any of those rubber bowl lines, drain valve, etc...

mandkole · Oct 4, 2014

Ive been around 3 different OBSs that started the same way and pump replacement was required. A good afternoons work..

gnxtc2 · Oct 4, 2014

FTW: E-fuel

Billy T.
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FrankTheTank · Oct 5, 2014

Agreed, take this as a forced upgrade and convert to e-fuel

Redpower · Oct 5, 2014

I'm not going to do e-fuel on this truck. This one was a truck I got from a friend and will most likely be getting rid of it in the near future. I'm still on the fence on replacing the pump. Right now I think I will pull the fuel bowl and see what those lines look like. If they look pretty bad and cracked, I will leave the pump alone.

gnxtc2 · Oct 6, 2014

I would just do the pump since you will have the fuel bowl off which will make the job easier. Just do it once and be done with it.

Billy T.
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mandkole · Oct 6, 2014

You more than likely have the pump failing and when you get in there, you'll see that the old, heat aged lines are trashed. For the work that it takes to get in there, just do it all right the first time.

ghohouston · Oct 6, 2014

agreed. the pump can be done without pulling the bowl, but its a bish. ive done 2 that way

zilla68 · Oct 6, 2014

I will have a used pump here in hopefully 2 weeks, it was brand new and I probably have the receipt for it, you can have the pump for shipping if you want it. works fine, just went/going e fuel

Redpower · Oct 6, 2014

zilla68 said:
I will have a used pump here in hopefully 2 weeks, it was brand new and I probably have the receipt for it, you can have the pump for shipping if you want it. works fine, just went/going e fuel

I'd take you up on that deal.

TERRCO · Oct 11, 2014

Ive done 2 on mine in the past and its not too hard at all. Patience

zilla68 · Oct 13, 2014

Redpower said:
I'd take you up on that deal.

REMIND ME, I'm hoping this weekend, since mowing season is pretty much over, I'll have some down time to do it now.

Redpower · Oct 13, 2014

zilla68 said:
REMIND ME, I'm hoping this weekend, since mowing season is pretty much over, I'll have some down time to do it now.

Sounds like a plan.

mattymx · Oct 15, 2014

Is it your 95 or 97? If it's the 97 it could be the pulse damper.

Redpower · Oct 15, 2014

mattymx said:
Is it your 95 or 97? If it's the 97 it could be the pulse damper.

Truck is a 95 that I'm working on.

ghohouston · Oct 15, 2014

mattymx said:
Is it your 95 or 97? If it's the 97 it could be the pulse damper.

I'm pretty sure the pulse dampner was only on cali trucks

mattymx · Oct 16, 2014

ghohouston said:
I'm pretty sure the pulse dampner was only on cali trucks

That's kinda true but I've seen quite a few 97 split shot trucks that were bought outside Cali. Just checking. I made a sweet tool that removing the damper a 5 minute job for my OBS.

Hope you get that leak sorted out.

SDS97_7.3 · Oct 16, 2014

mattymx said:
That's kinda true but I've seen quite a few 97 split shot trucks that were bought outside Cali. Just checking. I made a sweet tool that removing the damper a 5 minute job for my OBS.

Hope you get that leak sorted out.

Cali trucks weren't just sold in Cali from what I've seen.