In Need Of Help

[Codycobra84]

Ok truck is having some problems and I need help. All of this happened this morning after a hard rain last night.

 

7:30 this morning get into the truck and start it up like normal. Idled just fine for like a min-min and a half, then idled a little lower....and then lower....untill it shut off. I figured no biggie and restarted it. It started up but had a pretty good miss, I tried to rev it up alittle to see if it would clear up but it wouldn't gain but maybe 500rpms then bogged down and shut off.

 

Now the stuff that I've tried would be: check the dist. cap for moisture(and added a little wd-40 inside the cap), checked the plugs/wires/coil all good, there is fuel in the rail, the cam is moving, and there is no change when I add alittle starting fluid.

 

The only things that I can think of would be either a distributor or a crank sensor. My only thing is I didn't know if it could be either one.

 

Now there is something new that I found out just a little bit ago but I'm not sure , it may just be me being crazy. Anyways when I try to start it up it sounds like there is zero compression on the engine, but it may be b/c the battery is alittle low on power from tryin to mess with it. It's just a kinda stedy starter motor turning sound.

 

Any help would be great, not really sure if anys of yall have had to deal with anything like this, thanks for any advise in advance.

 

-Cody

[Automan2164]

Water in the fuel tank? Had enough gas to get it going in the lines, drew in water little by little, until it couldn't sustain on it, and then died? Will it run with some gas in the TB?

 

:dunno:

 

Rob L.

[Codycobra84]

Water in the fuel tank? Had enough gas to get it going in the lines, drew in water little by little, until it couldn't sustain on it, and then died? Will it run with some gas in the TB?

 

:dunno:

 

Rob L.

 

No, I sprayed some starting fluid into the TB and nothing changed.

[mnkyboy]

was there any moisture in the distributor cap when you checked it?

[Codycobra84]

Sorry for the long wait, but I ended up figuring out the issue. I was getting fire/fuel/air into the moter and still nothing. Then I figured out that when there's water in the gas it's harder to burn.....and it's really hard when it's about a 50/50 mix of fuel/water. I forgot about a little thing I did last week when mounting my tool box to the bed floor, I used a drill and I guess it went alittle to far........yay for stupidity :dunce: .....so after dropping the tank fixing and cleaning everything it's running again. But of course before doing that I changed the CPS out on it as well, 30 some dollars I didn't have to spend.....oh well, lol. Thanks for the ideas of whats wrong, next time I'm just gonna look and a mirror and ask myself what stupid thing did I do this time. :shake:

 

-Cody