Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
About a month ago I noticed fuel leaking from the inj pump, looked to be from the rear (towards the cab) where the distrubution body meets the main body (sorry, don't know the real part names). Figured that I needed a new ip, but was going to keep going until it stopped. As it started to get colder I noticed it was getting hard to start but figured the ip was just sucking in some air from the leak.
It started to lose throttle while driving, as I was going along, it was like someone cut the throttle linkage, truck didn't die, just lost go power. If I let off the pedal and then reapplied it was ok for a minute. Then after a few miles of that it just stopped running, as it was dying it was sputtering like there was a lot of air being sucked in... I did have a new lift pump with me and decided it couldn't hurt to stick it on since I was on the side of the road and had some time to kill. After swapping the lift pump out the truck started and ran rough for about 10 sec then that was it. So I bled it and no dice, it wouldn't start.
So I replaced the ip, bled it and it started and ran good. While swapping out the ip, I broke the air boost fuel tube from the manifold to the top hat of the ip, I've ordered one but it won't get here til mon, so I currently do not have that tube. I only took it up the driveway and back as it didn't have that tube on, seemed good, except the hissing of the lost boost into the engine bay. I parked it and restarted it, all was well...
Went to restart this morn and it wasn't primed any more. There are no visible fuel leaks anywhere, but it was also parked on grass so I can not check for spots on the ground. It took a lot of pumping on the lift pump to get clear fuel out of the bleader screw, then it fired up. I shut it down, looked for leaks, and within the 5mins that took, it lost prime again...
It started to lose throttle while driving, as I was going along, it was like someone cut the throttle linkage, truck didn't die, just lost go power. If I let off the pedal and then reapplied it was ok for a minute. Then after a few miles of that it just stopped running, as it was dying it was sputtering like there was a lot of air being sucked in... I did have a new lift pump with me and decided it couldn't hurt to stick it on since I was on the side of the road and had some time to kill. After swapping the lift pump out the truck started and ran rough for about 10 sec then that was it. So I bled it and no dice, it wouldn't start.
So I replaced the ip, bled it and it started and ran good. While swapping out the ip, I broke the air boost fuel tube from the manifold to the top hat of the ip, I've ordered one but it won't get here til mon, so I currently do not have that tube. I only took it up the driveway and back as it didn't have that tube on, seemed good, except the hissing of the lost boost into the engine bay. I parked it and restarted it, all was well...
Went to restart this morn and it wasn't primed any more. There are no visible fuel leaks anywhere, but it was also parked on grass so I can not check for spots on the ground. It took a lot of pumping on the lift pump to get clear fuel out of the bleader screw, then it fired up. I shut it down, looked for leaks, and within the 5mins that took, it lost prime again...
