OK so this is more of a sanity check than a specific question.
Here's the background: I bought a 1997 80 series this past May and have been enjoying it ever since. A few days after our last camping trip I was driving around town and all of a sudden I lost power, the engine began to miss, and I was forced to coast into a gas station. I knew I had less than a quarter tank of gas so my first thought was that I had run it out of gas (even though the low fuel light never illuminated). I figured the low fuel light had gone out so I put several gallons of gas in the tank and tried to drive home. She fired up and acted fine for a second but then began to miss again. I was able to limp home and for a while the truck acted fine. After thinking about our trip I realized we had driven through some reasonably deep water and it occurred to me that I may have a moisture issue. The truck was driving fine, I thought the stalling was weird but it seemed to have gone away so I chalked it up to some wires getting wet and figured they had dried out. Then, a couple weeks later, my wife was driving the cruiser and had the same weird behavior. There was more than enough gas in the tank at the time so that rules out simply "running it dry".
My current thought process:
Obviously I want to take care of this problem and have the truck back to normal. I have been reading and searching on this forum and finding a lot of good information. I have had a P0401 code (insufficient exhaust flow) for a while and I think some of the vacuum lines are old/dry rotted so I know I need to take a look at the EGR system. The following are things that I intend to check/work on as soon as I can (probably sometime next week):
1.) fuel filter - possibly clogged/starving engine?
2.) fuel pump - check resistance as per FSM, maybe it's starting to bite the dust
3.) EGR modulator - check filter/clean
4.) vacuum lines - replace as needed
5.) throttle body - remove/clean
6.) plenum - remove top half, clean, remove carbon from small vacuum port (the little one that goes straight through and gets clogged with carbon)
This is where the sanity check comes in - am I missing something obvious that could be causing this stalling/lack of power? The items above are what I was able to reason out on my own or find from reading on Mud. Any suggestions would be welcome. I don't have the money to start throwing parts at this vehicle but I want to fix whatever is actually wrong and I want to do it right.
Here's the background: I bought a 1997 80 series this past May and have been enjoying it ever since. A few days after our last camping trip I was driving around town and all of a sudden I lost power, the engine began to miss, and I was forced to coast into a gas station. I knew I had less than a quarter tank of gas so my first thought was that I had run it out of gas (even though the low fuel light never illuminated). I figured the low fuel light had gone out so I put several gallons of gas in the tank and tried to drive home. She fired up and acted fine for a second but then began to miss again. I was able to limp home and for a while the truck acted fine. After thinking about our trip I realized we had driven through some reasonably deep water and it occurred to me that I may have a moisture issue. The truck was driving fine, I thought the stalling was weird but it seemed to have gone away so I chalked it up to some wires getting wet and figured they had dried out. Then, a couple weeks later, my wife was driving the cruiser and had the same weird behavior. There was more than enough gas in the tank at the time so that rules out simply "running it dry".
My current thought process:
Obviously I want to take care of this problem and have the truck back to normal. I have been reading and searching on this forum and finding a lot of good information. I have had a P0401 code (insufficient exhaust flow) for a while and I think some of the vacuum lines are old/dry rotted so I know I need to take a look at the EGR system. The following are things that I intend to check/work on as soon as I can (probably sometime next week):
1.) fuel filter - possibly clogged/starving engine?
2.) fuel pump - check resistance as per FSM, maybe it's starting to bite the dust
3.) EGR modulator - check filter/clean
4.) vacuum lines - replace as needed
5.) throttle body - remove/clean
6.) plenum - remove top half, clean, remove carbon from small vacuum port (the little one that goes straight through and gets clogged with carbon)
This is where the sanity check comes in - am I missing something obvious that could be causing this stalling/lack of power? The items above are what I was able to reason out on my own or find from reading on Mud. Any suggestions would be welcome. I don't have the money to start throwing parts at this vehicle but I want to fix whatever is actually wrong and I want to do it right.
