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May 8, 2012 | 09:18 PM
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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.
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.
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May 8, 2012 | 10:25 PM
#622
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!!
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!!
May 9, 2012 | 07:20 PM
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We hard wires the pumps and saw no difference in pressure, pulled the filter and check valve and still no change in pressure so yesterday we pulled the gas tank and the bucket and put in two new fuel pumps. We also saw another broken hose that was deep in the bucket, not sure if that was the cause of the low fuel pressure or the pumps but we repaired the hoses and swapped pumps anyways.
Put it back together and the fuel pressure shot up to 60psi. Dropped it down to 50 and now the fuel pressure is all back to normal...thankfully.
Put it back together and the fuel pressure shot up to 60psi. Dropped it down to 50 and now the fuel pressure is all back to normal...thankfully.
May 9, 2012 | 07:22 PM
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Anywho, another problem popped up that we are trying to figure out but this one is a bit harder to sort out. I'll cue you guys in on what we figure out.
Dusty do you have any pictures of your handy work? I have some pics on my phone but I cannot post them on here from my phone, unless I can text them to somebody?
Dusty do you have any pictures of your handy work? I have some pics on my phone but I cannot post them on here from my phone, unless I can text them to somebody?
