Went on a long drive. It was warm sunny day and ran about 3/4 of the tank out. Refueled the truck at a mountain gas station and as we drove off, about 100 yds. down the road, the truck engine just about died when pulling into 4th. Then everything cleared up and away we went. Truck seems fine now?
Anyone seen anything like this? I was wondering if it had something to do with the temp. of the fuel we loaded in the machine? 'Cause I'd noticed the fuel handle was really cold to the touch so the fuel was probably pretty cold.
I suffered with a very similar sounding problem one spring. every other time I would fill up start the truck drive to the end of the lot and she would want to die. a few times I pushed the issue (tried to throttle through) then the truck would die and refuse to start for 20 min. the following fall I relocated my fuel reg and moved the fuel line from over the block to under the rad. problem never returned, but was it the fuel line? maybe a heat soaked condenser or gremlins... could it be I was not loving her like she wanted
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I had an issue a few weeks back when it missed under load in 4th for about 100yrds. after a brief stop. I've experienced fuel boiling in the mechanical fuel pump when I have "winter" gas in the tank and we have a hot day. The fuel in the float bowl is liquid, but the pump and filter I've mounted between the pump and carb end up with a large amount of air in them due to boiling. Usually it clears on start up, but not always. The boiling only happens with a heat soaked engine and is aggravated when the gas formulation changes. Once the truck is up and going there's enough fuel flow and air flow to keep the pump/line temps down and things are fine.
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