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E-train

E-train

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Not exactly stranded. I have a ride. And there are certainly worse places to be with a Cruiser breakdown.

Rig's sputtering, losing acceleration like its running out of gas or not getting any. It's kicked back in and allowed me to make it home before, but this time it's worse. Coupled with a low idle now, to the point where it'll just shut down after some starts. I thought it might be low gas but its happened on a full tank too so that got ruled out. But I made it to SD Trux under really weak acceleration.

Thoughts?
 
Fuel pump? Did you check for cracks in the intake tube?
 
You couldn't be in better hands than John and his gang at SD Trux. True experts witih a midas touch. I'd have suspected the intake tube as well. Recently wash the engine? Water in the throttle body sensor or distributor?
 
Brentbba said:
You couldn't be in better hands than John and his gang at SD Trux. True experts witih a midas touch. I'd have suspected the intake tube as well. Recently wash the engine? Water in the throttle body sensor or distributor?
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Very true Brent.

Intake huh? I'd be good if it was that straight forward.
 
Intake leaks, fuel filter or fuel pump are my guesses.
 
I'm guessing the intake hose or water in one of the sensor. Same thing happened to me. I had to take the intake hose off to inspect to notice the crack.
 
So...not the intake and not the fuel pump. John's going to try replacing a sensor in the fuel injection system. Even though it's reading functional now, with his best guess and the nature of the (intermittent) problem, he's thinking that's the next step.
 
this happened to me, my alternator was going bad with a bad internal regulator causing all sorts of problems, may want to just double check that your alt is outputing the correct voltage and not frying your battery. FYI, my battery did read 12+ volts but was still fried, not enough amps to crank but enough voltage to read 12v.

Noah
 
1973Guppie said:
this happened to me, my alternator was going bad with a bad internal regulator causing all sorts of problems, may want to just double check that your alt is outputing the correct voltage and not frying your battery. FYI, my battery did read 12+ volts but was still fried, not enough amps to crank but enough voltage to read 12v.

Noah
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Thanks Noah. My battery is severely drained, only reading in the teens in cranking amps instead of the 550 it's supposed to. How does this battery issue effect the rig while driving and sputtering like mine is?
 
swap the battery out with a good one, do you have duals? OR try to charge it up using a charger. If the battery is fried and not able to uptake the output the alternator is putting out, then you will continue to have low voltage to everything I believe. My optima yellow basically had 5 of the 6 spirals shot, thus one giving the reading of 12v, but not the cranking amps I needed. Also, if the alternator internal circuitry is shot and the internal reg is outputting max voltage you will continue to fry batteries. I would get a good battery on there and then test the output coming from the alternator at a higher idle, ie: 2200-2300 rpm, it should not go much higher than 14.5 volts. I tested mine using this method and got much higher 18+, which told me that the voltage regulator was toast causing many problems down the line and pushing too much power to the battery. Also check your fusible links, mine were slightly charred but not completely fried, I replaced them.

since I fixed this my truck runs notieceably better as I believe everything now is getting the correct power it needs. Even the idle is smoother.

what kind of alt are you running??

someone hopefully will correct me if the above is not correct, good luck.

Noah
 
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