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[wngrog]

Powda.


Owner has had some issues where it cranks with no start. Seemed like it was a fuel issue. He would move it or let it roll down a hill and then it would fire right up.

I decided to go get a look-see to see if I could find an issue.

I suspected the pick up hose on the in tank pump could have been jacked up like a couple of years ago when the person siphoned the gas out and knocked the pickup off.

Well that was not it. This all looks correct.

The tank has nothing floating around in it

I cut open the fuel filter and it looked nasty and black. No large amounts of crap. Just black.

I can't get it to replicate the no start. I drove it around and started it 25 times. Nothing.

Oh well. Back home. Maybe it was the filter.

 

[85roktoy]

That’s service right there…

 

[wngrog]

That’s service right there…

It's one of the only trucks I have local and it's always something with this thing. The owner is the greatest guy on earth but he does not own a tool much less know how to turn one.

 

[Augustiron]

Just read through the whole thread, yikes..

You should rename the truck boomerang.

 

[wngrog]

The fuel level alarm has been randomly going off on the Dakota.

I decided I want to get rid of the loud ass internal fuel pump and put a Dakota fuel gauge in to make the fuel level right.

Picked it up yesterday on the way home from dropping a truck in Louisiana.

Rotunda followed me home and we are working out a hard shift issue on it.

Today I got on Powda Blue.

Yanked the old tank out.

Purchased a new CCOT tank. Have to do some light mods to make the Dakota sender work.

This is the part

Basically the setup is easy. The only mod is you need to egg out the holes on the SAE pattern to make it fit the slightly larger metric pattern on the Toyota tank.

You will use the Toyota rubber gasket, not the cork one the Dakota comes
With.

 

[Polecat]

Cool. Does that sender accurately send fuel level to the Dakota gauge without calibration? I have a Toyota sender to my Dakota; it’s taken some calibration and still not entirely accurate.

 

[wngrog]

Cool. Does that sender accurately send fuel level to the Dakota gauge without calibration? I have a Toyota sender to my Dakota; it’s taken some calibration and still not entirely accurate.

Yes it's a Dakota brand so they talk. 10-180 ...

I had his set with the "range" option and it was dubious at best

 

[Dianna]

Powda loves the Tilda Bogue! Pretty sure you should just buy it and keep it there. Red would look like behind the wheel Did Cowboy give you side eye when it returned again?

 

[wngrog]

Changed the earl. Buttoned up the interior.

Man this thing is quiet now that the pump is out of the cab and on the rail.

He's put 15,000 miles on it.