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Well that would have been a long walk if I had took that option, Drove a long way out before it decided to cut out. Gonna go drive out 150 miles to pick it up on a trailer tomorrow to take it home and try to figure out how to get it running again. This is the first time it ever stranded me and I feel somewhat betrayed. The adventure the day before was great however, I love driving on sugar sand.
Pulled every evap line and filler neck out of the truck from the engine bay back to find a leak. Found it at the filler neck. This leak caused me to have rough idle and bad short and long term fuel trims.
One thing I would like to add if you have not looked at your lines back there you need too. The rubber vent hose and filler hose will be cracked and soon start leaking and cause air to enter you system and cause rough idle and cut down on your MPG's.
Yesterday I used a U-haul to tow my Rover back home from the desert
Today I bought a spark plug test and tested spark, it had spark
Replaced the fuel filter and bought a fuel pressure tester and found "0psi" of pressure, but I could hear the fuel pump prime
Took out the fuel pump and the fuel hose had detached from the fuel pump motor and that is what stopped my truck during my road trip two weeks ago. Wish I knew then what I do now and I could have fixed it on the trail and kept going!
Yesterday I used a U-haul to tow my Rover back home from the desert
Today I bought a spark plug test and tested spark, it had spark
Replaced the fuel filter and bought a fuel pressure tester and found "0psi" of pressure, but I could hear the fuel pump prime
Took out the fuel pump and the fuel hose had detached from the fuel pump motor and that is what stopped my truck during my road trip two weeks ago. Wish I knew then what I do now and I could have fixed it on the trail and kept going!
Sucks it ruined your trip. But glad it was a cheap and easy fix.
It runs now that I have reattached plastic fuel line from the pump motor, but when I go to start it now, it cranks for 6-8 seconds before it seems to get the fuel into the engine and fires up. Anyone know how to remedy this?
It runs now that I have reattached plastic fuel line from the pump motor, but when I go to start it now, it cranks for 6-8 seconds before it seems to get the fuel into the engine and fires up. Anyone know how to remedy this?
Posted these images from a solo car camping trip last fall, and both the last time I've been stuck and the last time I've used the engine as an oven. The mud in these images is actually clay... like pottery throwing grade clay and slippery and sticky as hell. The only substrate I've been stuck in that was more challenging than this was bentonite in Wyoming... kind of ash colored and basically kittly litter and astoundingly difficult to extricate oneself from.
edited to say slipped in an image taken much later in fall as evidenced by the gold folliage.
