I had a hard start previously, I had a leaking gas cap, I replaced it with a 10$ one from AutoZone, the hard start went away for a little bit. It came back today, so I check under the truck, no noticeable leaks, just a smell. I removed my rear passenger jump seat, pulled a few panels, and pushed the carpet out of the way. I found a puddle of fuel on top of the pump, the pump is cracked, I could glue it where its cracked, its cracked on the top inside the circular part, but it would be very temporary if I glued it, plus my fuel sending unit is reading incorrectly (annoying as hell), the pump itself if 13 years old, and I'm sure the filter has some gunk in it. So its in my D2's best interest to just replace the pump entirely.


I found a few pumps at 350$ and a new one on eBay for about 275$, sadly enough, I guess I have the more expensive of the two, the advanced evaporative loss system equipped pump (AEL), the cheapest one I have found that's OEM (Bosch) is like 400$ with the AEL seal.


If I didn't love this truck so much I would've given it the boot a long time ago!