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[Dieselman359]

Well... in my continuing quest to work on my truck for the entire year with minimal drive time, last weekend my truck decided that the crankcase was the right place for the fuel to go... Guess that the seal on the VE let go, drained more than a five-gallon bucket of fuel-oil mix! To eliminate all possible causes I'm thinkin' of an electric lift pump now... when am I going to quit pouring $ into this truck?!

 

[pepecat]

Not sure about the electric lift pump options but the low pressure piston lift pump also prevents your problem as well.

 

[PToombs]

I saw the title and thought to myself, "Now what did he wreck?" But it's not that bad!

I'd go with the piston pump too. I don't trust electric, and you don't need that much fuel. And I don't think an electric will prevent what happened either. I think it will pump even more fuel into the base than what you had. The seal was just a casualty of time.



Oh, and I have you beat on drive vs work on time too. I now have 2 gems to "ford" (fix or repair daily)

 

[cerberusiam]

Not sure about the electric lift pump options but the low pressure piston lift pump also prevents your problem as well.

He is saying get rid of the piston pump and eliminate it leaking into the crank case also. :-laf

To eliminate all possible causes I'm thinkin' of an electric lift pump now...

If you are going electric then do either a FASS or AirDog and be done with it. Its electric and at some point it may need refreshing but the extra features and filtering ability make it worth while. I believe the AD100 has the better filters and water seperator available now and would be all you would need. I believe the FASS will also come with the pump and air seperator and no filters if you like.

 

[JLEONARD]

Is it the seal on the VE or the diaphram blew on the lift pump that caused the problem?

This is the first time I recall hearing of this problem in TDR on a 1st gen.

Since the occurance is so rare woondering why change to a diferent pump rather than replace the stocker... other than for performance reasons that is.

??

 

[Dieselman359]

Going with the Air Dog

I went ahead and picked up an Air Dog that I'm going to install. I had already bought the low pressure piston pump that I was using, but I've decided to eliminate the possibility of it leaking into the crankcase. I think that it was fine but I already spent $ on it once, so instead of buying it, I should've went electric the first time You know the old saying, hindsight is always 20/20. Now that Fass and others have become so popular, prices have gone down significantly. Also with the biodiesel that I run, the extra filtering can only help me.



Jay, I believe that the seal on the VE was the culprit.