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Well I have been dragging my feet and limping around every since the Moab trip. On the way to Moab coming up the last long grade when we were all showing our BIG STICKS hauling ass just after i passed everyone I lost power and the check engine light came on. The first assumption was that i probably had water in the tank. I figured it was condensation from the Peterbilt saddle tank I installed in the bed of the truck for extra capacity (140 gallons)
After draining the fuel filter drain it was confirmed that I had indeed have water in the fuel. I added 10 cans of fuel dryer, filled back up with fuel and everything was fine until i hit 3/4 of a tank on the gauge. It would start sputtering and dye. I called the Dallas Tech Hotline
and Bobbie told me how to check my codes. It came up with a lean fuel code and I figured it was just still water in the fuel so I kept adding transmission fluid to the tank and fuel dryer and kept the tank above 3/4 all the way back to Arkansas. Yeah it was a bitch, and I have kept it above 3/4 tank every since.
Today i pulled the tank expecting to find more than half the tank full of water but it had NO water in the tank. In-fact the tank was ultra clean so I kept looking. After a close inspection of the in-tank fuel module I found at the bottom of the canister tons of metallic like grime.
You see the canister is submerged in the tank and fuel over flows into the canister when its full but when it gets to about 3/4 the level is below the cansister and fuel is syphoned from the bottom of the canister through a small grid that has a small screen covering it at the bottom. This is what was causing my problem...
Now in the 3 years I was at Huffines we never had a fuel pump like this go bad. Usually its the lift pumps that are mounted on the side of the filter housing that go bad. (KNOW WHAT I MEAN TULIP???
) The ones on the side of the filter housing fail in time because they are not cooled. Dodge decided to change the design locating the pumps in the tank so the fuel keeps the pump cool.
Im positive the metallic junk inside my module was not caused by anything less than my own doing by installing the aux. Peterbilt tank and having the trash from inside that tank syphon into my stock tank...
My solution was to first replace the fuel pump module and I will but I have decided to clean the trash the best I can from the module and save for an aftermarket pump and filter system. From what I have found the type of filter and pump assembly I want to go with is around 400 bucks and i really didn't want to replace the stock module and later replace it again with the aftermarket assembly I have been wanting, especially since I am trying to fry bigger fish right now and need to conserve as much money as possible...
I guess we will see if this gets me by for another couple months??? Hopefully until after the first of the year...
JOSH
After draining the fuel filter drain it was confirmed that I had indeed have water in the fuel. I added 10 cans of fuel dryer, filled back up with fuel and everything was fine until i hit 3/4 of a tank on the gauge. It would start sputtering and dye. I called the Dallas Tech Hotline
and Bobbie told me how to check my codes. It came up with a lean fuel code and I figured it was just still water in the fuel so I kept adding transmission fluid to the tank and fuel dryer and kept the tank above 3/4 all the way back to Arkansas. Yeah it was a bitch, and I have kept it above 3/4 tank every since.Today i pulled the tank expecting to find more than half the tank full of water but it had NO water in the tank. In-fact the tank was ultra clean so I kept looking. After a close inspection of the in-tank fuel module I found at the bottom of the canister tons of metallic like grime.
You see the canister is submerged in the tank and fuel over flows into the canister when its full but when it gets to about 3/4 the level is below the cansister and fuel is syphoned from the bottom of the canister through a small grid that has a small screen covering it at the bottom. This is what was causing my problem...
Now in the 3 years I was at Huffines we never had a fuel pump like this go bad. Usually its the lift pumps that are mounted on the side of the filter housing that go bad. (KNOW WHAT I MEAN TULIP???
) The ones on the side of the filter housing fail in time because they are not cooled. Dodge decided to change the design locating the pumps in the tank so the fuel keeps the pump cool.Im positive the metallic junk inside my module was not caused by anything less than my own doing by installing the aux. Peterbilt tank and having the trash from inside that tank syphon into my stock tank...
My solution was to first replace the fuel pump module and I will but I have decided to clean the trash the best I can from the module and save for an aftermarket pump and filter system. From what I have found the type of filter and pump assembly I want to go with is around 400 bucks and i really didn't want to replace the stock module and later replace it again with the aftermarket assembly I have been wanting, especially since I am trying to fry bigger fish right now and need to conserve as much money as possible...
I guess we will see if this gets me by for another couple months??? Hopefully until after the first of the year...
JOSH
