Archived Still very hard to start, seems flooded out??

[2shus]

I put a post on the other day cause my truck is very hard to start when not driven everyday. I had some replies about the fuel return line and it has been replaced and not leaking. The problem seems to be when it sits a couple days or more it is flooded out when i try to start it. It acts just like a gasburner when its flooded, it try to fire and if you hold the pedal down it will finally start but runs very rough and smokes white real bad till all the excess fuel is burnt out of it. When it starts it smokes the whole neighborhood up. I was driving it to work daily until recently and it has always started great when driven daily. Now i have been driving truck only once a week and it does this to me when i try to start it. It done this a few times over the winter when i didn't drive it daily. Is their anyway fuel could be getting thru to the engine when the truck is setting? I don't want to take it in somewhere. I appreciate any help, thanks, Tim.

 

[MikeR]

No, it can't flood out. How is your overflow valve looking?

 

[2shus]

Where is the overflow valve located and what problem am i looking for with it??

 

[jwgary]

What color is the smoke? If it's white, you are not igniting all cylinders. I would suspect that you have a slow leak that is allowing air to get into you fuel filter canister or something. If one injector line is full of air, you should see lots of white smoke until you have enough to make it light off. The ones that are getting fuel will keep the engine running if you floor it. MikeR is right, you can't flood this engine. That's a problem with gassers especially with carburators. I hope you find the source quickly.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

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If you still have the OEM overflow valve on your pump, replace it. I will try to find a picture of where it is. Its a 10 min fix.



more info: http://www.dodgeram.org/tech/dsl/troubleshooting/injector_pump.htm#Overflow

 

[SOOT]

I want to know more about the overflow valve. Does it do just what the name says? return over flow the tank?



You can flood a powerjoke I have done it and a friend has done it to her truck several times:--) of course it was a turbo diesel not a powerjoke, atleast that was the badging said(turbo diesel).