Attention: TDR Forum Junkies Different No Start issue...fuel pump? Found Problem!
I had a no start issue with my truck today. Drove it about 30 miles, shut it of for about half and hour. Went to start it and it waffled at 500 rpm for a second and died. Cranked and cranked... nothing.
I opened the fuel filter drain and fuel dribbled out at about the usual rate. Turned the key on and had a breif shot of fuel out of the drain hose under pressure, then back to the dribble. I then crawled under the truck, had someone turn the key on and heard the in tank pump run for a second or so, crawled out and it started right up. I ran fine 30 miles back to home.
I am due for a fuel filter change, in fact it is supposed to show up today from Geno's. I have never had one stop fuel flow though and there is only about 10k miles on the filter.
So should the fuel shoot out of the filter housing drain tube under pressure as long as the key is switched on? Could I be seing the beginnings of an in tank transfer pump failure? Do the go intermittently before dying completely or do they usually just fail all at once?
I had a no start issue with my truck today. Drove it about 30 miles, shut it of for about half and hour. Went to start it and it waffled at 500 rpm for a second and died. Cranked and cranked... nothing.
I opened the fuel filter drain and fuel dribbled out at about the usual rate. Turned the key on and had a breif shot of fuel out of the drain hose under pressure, then back to the dribble. I then crawled under the truck, had someone turn the key on and heard the in tank pump run for a second or so, crawled out and it started right up. I ran fine 30 miles back to home.
I am due for a fuel filter change, in fact it is supposed to show up today from Geno's. I have never had one stop fuel flow though and there is only about 10k miles on the filter.
So should the fuel shoot out of the filter housing drain tube under pressure as long as the key is switched on? Could I be seing the beginnings of an in tank transfer pump failure? Do the go intermittently before dying completely or do they usually just fail all at once?
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My filters wont be here until Tuesday. Anyway, I have been driving it around town, close enough that I could walk home if I had too. No more problems yet and half a dozen re-starts. I had a small fuel drip when I parked it last night. Hopefully no more than not getting the valve on the filter housing all the way closed. It was getting dark so I will look closer today and see if I can find some fuel leak source. 
If they have the line I am pretty sure I can easily swap it out in the parking lot and leave no more than a puddle of fuel as evidence I was there today
