i doubt many of you read my post last week about the truck stranding me, well it turned out to be the starter and i paid out the *** to have it replaced. the day i get my truck back im in town and the transmission starts acting up, shifting so hard into second at part throttle that it would chirp the tires and about shake the dashboard loose.....truck got a little warm also, but that may be attributable to my driving it around town in second gear until i found somewhere suitable to park it.after letting it sit for about an hour i start off to limp it home and its fine,shifting smooth as ever. i stopped off at the garage that did my starter and asked if maybe he or one of his people had added some fluid, because to me it looked like it had too much.while poking around under the hood he finds that the negative battery terminal was just hanging on by a thread, he cinched it up and its been fine every since. now for the most recent pain in my ***. tonight it almost stranded me again outside a convenience store. it would start but wouldnt stay running but for a second or two, like it wasnt getting fuel. i immediately thought fuel pump... tried a couple more times to start it and called someone to come get me.when they get there the truck starts without a hitch. it has 127,000 miles on it now and i was expecting some things to start going wrong, just not all in the same week. anyone have a clue about my most recent situation? the truck really has been hesitating a lot lately and feels like its holding back a good deal, in fact i know it is because there are times when it miraculously comes alive and runs like its supposed to. fuel pressure regulator maybe? something else? any help would be appreciated. sorry if this was drawn out


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Fuel Filter!! when was the ladt time it was changed? my truck did something like that and i changed my filter, bye bye problem. might want to check that out, there cheap and it might just be the problem

 

Definitely change it if has been a long time and put a can of BG 44K in the tank. How much did they charge for changing the starter?

 

close to 300 for the starter and 160 for them to replace it, i did the fuel filter about 10 or 12 thousand miles ago

 

well i pulled the vaccum hose on the fuel pressure regulator and it was bone dry inside. fuel pump primed normally and the truck started right up. im kind of afraid to drive it because i dont know if its going to strand me somewhere. but i guess thats what its going to take to find out whats wrong with the damn thing. i really dont like this truck right now. i hate to jinx myself but i know the transmission is right around the corner with 127,000 on the clock. why cant anything last on these damn trucks, my 90 tbi 350 never had these kinds of problems in the 300,000 miles that i drove it, all i replaced was the rear end on that truck.

 

i guess i should add that ive never had problems starting the truck before, at all... its always fired right up. that is until the starter went out last week.

 

well, a thread on dave chappelle got more views and replies than my legitimate problem. this is the third time ive posted on here seeking assistance and its the third time i got relatively none. i do appreciate the two people that responded... thanks guys. i guess ill stop wasting my time posting here and just get what i can from the search function.

 

My truck did this last summer. I was on my way home from work and it killed on me in the pouring rain. Thought it was the fuel pump, but it primed like it should. I ended up changiing the distributor(local shop guy said this was the problem), but it kept giving me trouble. I brought it in and the guy changed some coil on it. Not sure what coil it was. Start my druck, drive home it is ok. 2 days later, running bad again. Turned out to be a bad catalytic converter. After the cats were removed truck ran fine. I know too what iit is like to have many things go wrong at once.

 

i would maybe check the wire on the starter. maybe they are shorting out or something. i'm sorry that no one is replying. you get that every once in a while. i'm dont really know what to tell you. sounded like the same fuel filter problem as me, but you said it was changed so i am now clueless.

 

An issue with the MAF (IAT sensor) will cause some of the shifting problems you had at one point. Check its connection.

You really need to have it hooked up to a scanner and look for past trouble codes and current readings. That will give you a direction to start looking.