Good morning Roy,
I went to NAPA and borrowed their OBD II reader and fuel pressure test kit on Sunday, I hooked up the reader, and got some old memory codes and erased them, went to turn the key to get new "live codes" and she started right up, let her run for an hour or so with no issues other than black smoke and a funky turpentine/lacquer smell, took her out for a "test drive" and everything seemed to work ok, with only a couple of minor backfires.
I let the truck rest for a half an hour, for the fuel and vacuum pressure to relax, it started right back up. Let it rest again for three hours and it started back up again but with some choking out after five minutes, touched the throttle and it came out of it. I checked the codes again and only got one for a bad O2 sensor which is broken.
Back when the no starts began I poured a bottle of Lucas fuel system cleaner into the tank (about half full, fifteen gallons) with all the cranking over and allowing her to sit afterward, maybe it loosened something up. From what I have read, black smoke, some uneven idle, a few backfires, and no start are all signs of a bad fuel pressure regulator. What is your opinion?
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Monday, September 17th, 2018 AT 12:36 AM