Recent Content by Jeffrey Howes

I would think black smoke would be associated with turbo, wastegate or intercooler boot problems

Does anyone know the drawbacks or danger/damage that may occur from removing an overflow valve and plugging it, has anyone ever tried this before?

Once a trial and error guys always a trial and error guy.

More and more people. More and more vehicles on the road = motorists having to develop a greater tolerance towards these changes. This must be why that guy that sings that 80's song wears his sunglasses at night.

Yea I need a test gauge. i'm starting to get as frustrated as I was when my new Borgeson steering box blew up on me after 30 miles pretty much fried my power steering pump and, I had to wait till they sent me a new box, ended up being a torn O ring in the box, warranty item. Anyway , I got the...

Woops. Guess I'm not very observant, I see now that you said to use search function on this site. Again thanks for all your help.

BudNate, it's the P7100 over-flow valve, you mentioned that they make a adjustable model. Can you give me information on who offers that product, And how you dial it in to the proper adjustment?

Turns out it's the P7100 over-flow valve I pinched off the line and took it for a very short spin and truck runs as it should. I'm sure this is not the ideal test but figured that if I just did a very short test it would be OK. Thanks for your replies, GAmes

GAmes, I do have a factory service manual, but it doesn't say anything about the fuel solenoid partially failing, or maybe I missed it.

thanks for all your help, BudNate, I knew about the fuel solenoid , but didn't know it could partially fail.

Jeffrey Howes 12 valve bogging out How do i check if fuel solinoid is opening all the way, also rpms jump but no power. I read about the overflow valve in the TDR buyers guide. truck has 270,000 miles original lift pump. Also Revs right up normally in neutral. Thanks for the response.

My truck reciently started bogging down if you press the accelerator more than 1/4 of the way it is particually bad in the morning when the truck has not completly warmed up. Sometimes it will stall out, I talked to a Geno's garage tech and he said to replace all the fuel filters I did this...