OK, so I filled up the truck - topped it off for good measure, or so i thought. I was in an area where gas was a bit cheaper and tossed in a topped off tank of premium. Now, after that, leaving the truck running on a warm day had gas leaking off the rear diff.
Got her back home and had assumed too much gas in the tank - too topped off. I emptied out the cargo area, pulled the carpet back, pulled the two screws for the access plate, looked under, nothing but smell, but no visible fuel.
It was then that I looked over just to the right of that access plate and noticed some sticky rubber and fought to peel it back. Well, apparently one of the PO's had cut a nice sized hole out of the cargo floor. Son of a ...
So I peeled back the metal that was under the rubber (just to the right of the access plate). Under there I saw the hard fuel lines go into the big circular plate. Now my questions are:
1 - Under the actually access plate, there is a small circular plate that looks to be in good shape. What is it? Fuel pump? It has a few wires on it.
2- Under the darned home made "peel back the cargo bed" access part, there is a larger circular plate - that has the two tubes that look to be lines (feed/return) and the lines connecting to the plate look good. Is that the fuel pump and the smaller one is a sending unit?
3- the larger plate under the cut section had some goopy mess that came right out. I assume some sort of aged caulk/gas resistant mess that a PO had done and now leaks. I left that larger plate alone as I saw 4 out of 7 screws were entirely missing. Jeeez.
Thoughts?
I've always felt that since I only start the truck every few weeks it's just not primed so I've learned to just key the ignition just before start 3 times, then go for ignition. Another thing was that when looking at the cut open section, at the big plate with the fuel lines, I disconnected and reconnected the grey 2-wire jack/coupling/clip and the engine would go to stall and when I reconnected it the engine would race. Other things I've noticed in my year or two tenure wit this truck is that when the tank is full it reads full, when reading empty it is actually half full.
So with answers to the above questions on confirming what is what, what the thoughts of the collective mud are and my other observations as they stream in, what do I do to seal up the big black plate with the missing screws. I left it all alone since I can move the truck and do not want to immobilize it if I have to wait for parts. I siphoned gas off and will only run it 3/4 full or less. It's a farm truck with plates so gets minor local road use. I just don;t want to get all hopped up buying all new components. perhaps since things are working, but not sealed, per se, that I can fix it for a year or so with some better caulk or gasket or something.
The truck is 200 miles from me now as i write this. Sorry I'll provide more info from memory on request. I have a funky PDF manual with me but the FSM is of course, in the truck near the tools to fix the truck.
Sorry for the wall of text and if it seems rambling. Been a very long week and a few beers while a take a break from some late night work. Forgot to snap pics of course.
Got her back home and had assumed too much gas in the tank - too topped off. I emptied out the cargo area, pulled the carpet back, pulled the two screws for the access plate, looked under, nothing but smell, but no visible fuel.
It was then that I looked over just to the right of that access plate and noticed some sticky rubber and fought to peel it back. Well, apparently one of the PO's had cut a nice sized hole out of the cargo floor. Son of a ...
So I peeled back the metal that was under the rubber (just to the right of the access plate). Under there I saw the hard fuel lines go into the big circular plate. Now my questions are:
1 - Under the actually access plate, there is a small circular plate that looks to be in good shape. What is it? Fuel pump? It has a few wires on it.
2- Under the darned home made "peel back the cargo bed" access part, there is a larger circular plate - that has the two tubes that look to be lines (feed/return) and the lines connecting to the plate look good. Is that the fuel pump and the smaller one is a sending unit?
3- the larger plate under the cut section had some goopy mess that came right out. I assume some sort of aged caulk/gas resistant mess that a PO had done and now leaks. I left that larger plate alone as I saw 4 out of 7 screws were entirely missing. Jeeez.
Thoughts?
I've always felt that since I only start the truck every few weeks it's just not primed so I've learned to just key the ignition just before start 3 times, then go for ignition. Another thing was that when looking at the cut open section, at the big plate with the fuel lines, I disconnected and reconnected the grey 2-wire jack/coupling/clip and the engine would go to stall and when I reconnected it the engine would race. Other things I've noticed in my year or two tenure wit this truck is that when the tank is full it reads full, when reading empty it is actually half full.
So with answers to the above questions on confirming what is what, what the thoughts of the collective mud are and my other observations as they stream in, what do I do to seal up the big black plate with the missing screws. I left it all alone since I can move the truck and do not want to immobilize it if I have to wait for parts. I siphoned gas off and will only run it 3/4 full or less. It's a farm truck with plates so gets minor local road use. I just don;t want to get all hopped up buying all new components. perhaps since things are working, but not sealed, per se, that I can fix it for a year or so with some better caulk or gasket or something.
The truck is 200 miles from me now as i write this. Sorry I'll provide more info from memory on request. I have a funky PDF manual with me but the FSM is of course, in the truck near the tools to fix the truck.
Sorry for the wall of text and if it seems rambling. Been a very long week and a few beers while a take a break from some late night work. Forgot to snap pics of course.
