And for not being at the truck shootout

 

Man you guys are rough!!

Well if it's any consolation I plan on spending some time out with you Texas boys this summer, and I plan on bringing my truck this time!

 

Progress is so much better than regress my friend

 

Damn, I just wrote a long update post and lost it. Argggg

 

Good news is that my rear suspension is done and it's really really good! It consist of truck arms/bars, a pan hard bar and some coil over fox shocks.
Thanks to Henry for designing it and Dusty for welding it up when Henry got in an accident and busted his shoulder. It really rides amazing, can't believe how perfect it rides now, almost feels like I'm driving in a sedan as far as the rear suspension is concerened. I do have coil-overs for the front but there wasn't the opportunity to install then with Henry's injury, maybe later, hopefully.

Anyways, I'm having some issues now with my fuel system. Over the last few days I've been steadily loosing fuel pressure. It used to be at 60 psi but now lives at 40 psi and when i get into load, instead of going up one psi per every lbs of boost, it drops considerably. I pulled the tank thinking that either my pumps were bad or I had a broken feed line. Sure enough I found that the feed line was sheared almost in half right where it tries to exit the bucket sending all the fuel raining down back in the tank. So i fired that and check to make sure the pumps still ran and re-installed everything. Started the truck and...nothing, no change, still at 40psi. Cranked up the FPR as much as I could and nothing, fuel pressure at idle didn't budge an inch. So I took the FPR apart thinking that the diaphragm was ripped or something but the internals were cherry.
So tomorrow I'm gonna pull the inline filter in the hopes that that is clogged. If its not that I'm gonna have to pull the tank out again and put in some new pumps, although I'm not sure that the ones I have in there are bad.

Anyone have any ideas because I'm running out of them!!

 

I had some exhaust leaks so I replaced my exhaust manifold gaskets and found that 6 of the 8 cylinders were leaking and one of which blew the gasket right out, I could of put a small flat head screw driver into the exhaust port it I had tried. Now that it's fine throttle tip in is greatly improved and spool time is vastly better.
My meth controller also took a dump on me and was fortunate that Dave(USAbodyguard) has a spare one from alky and put that on. It's not working perfectly right now, I'll have to call Julio tomorrow to try and sort out some wiring issue.

I have some pics to post but am having a hard time getting them from my phone to my iPad. Will update once I get them.

 

Did you check your voltage? That was my problem. Same symptoms as yours.

 

I know its not near the same scenario but my stock fuel pump would run and act fine as well untill I got into the upper RPMs or a high load and then the fuel pressure would just nose dive. New walbro 255 and have no issues now.

So I wouldnt rule the pumps out right away.

 

Do you have larger wire running to the fuel pumps?
I would hope so being you have two

 

Henry and I just hard wired the pumps straight to the battery and still showed 38psi somi don't think it's a voltage thing.
We then pulled the fuel filter and check valve and they were both clean so we put them back in.
We are now gonna drop the tank again ad swap out the pumps.