Recent Content by Dodgedart

I finally figured it out. It was my fault. For some reason I thought the puck sat in the fuel bow, not an actual spacer like it is. I reinstalled the allen bolt adapter and the bowl never seated correctly. Since it’s a 4x4 and difficult to see or reach, I couldn’t see this at first, until I took...

Update: I did drop the bowl and also the puck held by the allen screw. Just for kicks I ohm’d out the heater element and got 1.2 ohms which isn’t a dead short but close to it. I would expect 8 to 10 ohms or maybe higher. I opted to clean up and keep the screen strainer, it had some gunk but not...

I found one like that in my dog kennel with my two dogs. Dogs weren’t hurt, but I split it in two with my 12 ga. bird shot. Both halves crawled in different directions. Always better safe than sorry with those things, especially with kids around.

Bingo! That’s the culprit. I take it that it’s not that needed. I’m ok with deleting it if my truck doesn’t need it. I’m still wondering what happened. Maybe the heater element shorted out? Strange that it happened with servicing. Thanks for the quick responses.

Every time I replace the fuel filter, seems like something goes awry. This time, I thought I just got away with a banged up hand. After I pushed the primer a zillion times. I finally got it started and I was checking the fuel filter canister for any leaks. I saw something glowing below the fuel...