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[NeverGiveUpYota]

Few weeks ago did a barn cut out of honey bees. The barn was being torn down the following week. Guy who contacted me didn’t want bees or honey, just the experience. He did all the hard work of pulling the wood off the barn where my thermal imager showed them to be.
I had to go back the second day to retrieve the remaining bees.
When I got in the truck to go home it wouldn’t really run. Long story short… I chugged it across the street to a business and got it towed home that evening. But prior to being towed I begged a ride home w/ the box of bees (at least 3-4lbs worth) from strangers in the parking lot. Great people gave me a ride w/o a pause. It was one hell of a weekend. So much honey and comb. Enough bees to make two hives from them.

 

[Spike Strip]

Fuel pump part # is the same 81-87, as stated. What changes is the insulator, but the thickness is the same. FWIW, I had a Kyosan bad right out of the box some years ago; It spit gas out the weep hole from the go. Kyosan is still the best even with some quality issues. Also, there's a lot of ersatz parts out there...

Q: How do you tell the difference between Honey Bees and Carpenter? I've got a hive that's behind (underneath) one of my storage sheds and if they're honey bees I'll leave them alone 'till they go away... They're not bothering anything but the neighbor did complain of lots of dead bees in his pool.

 

[kirvesmies]

hey felicity, that sucks regarding the fuel pump. but at least you're still smilin'

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

Fuel pump part # is the same 81-87, as stated. What changes is the insulator, but the thickness is the same. FWIW, I had a Kyosan bad right out of the box some years ago; It spit gas out the weep hole from the go. Kyosan is still the best even with some quality issues. Also, there's a lot of ersatz parts out there...

Q: How do you tell the difference between Honey Bees and Carpenter? I've got a hive that's behind (underneath) one of my storage sheds and if they're honey bees I'll leave them alone 'till they go away... They're not bothering anything but the neighbor did complain of lots of dead bees in his pool.

Carpenter bees are big. Most confuse them w/ bumble bees.
@Spike Strip I got this chart at a bee event last summer. Just thought of it now. I think it’ll be close enough for your location and just google. I will say, if they are in the ground, it may be yellow jackets or a ground wasp. Both will die out during the winter.

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

Pump is intact. I was wrong. Ugh. It did bog down to see gauges go to almost nothing and then huge bang, and then fully stopped.

 

[cps432]

Pump is intact. I was wrong. Ugh. It did bog down to see gauges go to almost nothing and then huge bang, and then fully stopped.

Was it a mechanical bang or more like an electrical bang? Did you smell anything?

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

Was it a mechanical bang or more like an electrical bang? Did you smell anything?

No smell. It was a bang like something broke. I’m really not happy. Especially because it’s pointed toward the road so everyone can see me flounder.

 

[cps432]

Hmmm…. I wonder if something jammed up just before it broke? All electrical seems to be functioning? Power to the plugs and all that? But it won’t crank over? Does it try to crank?

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

Hmmm…. I wonder if something jammed up just before it broke? All electrical seems to be functioning? Power to the plugs and all that? But it won’t crank over? Does it try to crank?

Eating now. I’ll get out there. Pissy yellow jacket nest down in my front yard next to my driveway. My own bees cranky. And now I’ve gotta muddle through this w/ my ass pointed at the road. The joys of working in a driveway. At least I’ve got the tent up. Will report back in a bit.
Thanks all for checking in. Wish some of you were closer!

 

[micruz60]

Directing successful diagnostic thoughts your way.
Baffling. EGR not clear? Carbon chunk cut loose and was ingested? Spark plug detonated?
HTH

 

[Spike Strip]

With plugs removed, can you turn engine over BY HAND?

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

My gosh… pump actuator arm not broken. Damn, I really wanted this to be easy.
#1 plugs fouled, black w/ gray carbon build up. Thought to try starter after pulling, only a click and then nothing. Proceeded to opening top end which looks great. HB rotates w/ no noise. Rockers move smooth. Pulled distributor cap, loosened nut, it slides side to side easily.
Drained oil, dropped pan, teeny teeny bits of shine but nothing alarming. And seriously everything looks lovely.
Starter bench test checked good.

Oy.

 

[cps432]

I was gonna ask about the starter, but why would that have caused the bogging down?
It bogged down like it was starved for fuel and then “bang” and now it won’t start?

So the pump arm is not broken, but does the pump still function properly on the bench? Perhaps it broke internally and everything merely LOOKS copacetic?

Does your battery check out? The starter bench tests fine, but won’t turn the engine over, though you can spin it by hand? Maybe your battery or fusible link took a dump and the bang was an arch flash?

Dizzy is properly vented? They’ll explode if they aren’t vented and gas fumes build up inside the cap.

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

I was gonna ask about the starter, but why would that have caused the bogging down?
It bogged down like it was starved for fuel and then “bang” and now it won’t start?

So the pump arm is not broken, but does the pump still function properly on the bench? Perhaps it broke internally and everything merely LOOKS copacetic?

Does your battery check out? The starter bench tests fine, but won’t turn the engine over, though you can spin it by hand? Maybe your battery or fusible link took a dump and the bang was an arch flash?

Dizzy is properly vented? They’ll explode if they aren’t vented and gas fumes build up inside the cap.

Dizzy is clean as the day I installed it. Cap super clean, rotor as well. I need to try the pump arm. Me physically can’t push… if I recall that’s the test, I’m not strong enough.
Battery should be good, I’ll verify later.
When the truck bogged the gauges also all dropped. I was stepping on the gas, felt it bog then gauges dipped and it was like it was dead, (I had a vw that used to do it on the hw at 60mph, felt just like that) I think I stepped on the gas further and then got that big bang. Unless I quick turned the key and then got the bang. Idk. It all happened fast. When that happened I just moved to the side of the road and turned the key off.

 

[cps432]

Check the ring gear on the flywheel. Maybe you did bump the starter and it popped a tooth? Mine has a busted tooth. Always assumed the starter slammed it while it was spinning full speed.

Wonder if that was the ‘bang’ noise and it has nothing to do with why it bogged down?

Maybe you’ve got an electrical gremlin? Like a ground wire loose?

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

Check the ring gear on the flywheel. Maybe you did bump the starter and it popped a tooth? Mine has a busted tooth. Always assumed the starter slammed it while it was spinning full speed.

Wonder if that was the ‘bang’ noise and it has nothing to do with why it bogged down?

Maybe you’ve got an electrical gremlin? Like a ground wire

I did turn the whole flywheel w/ my hand and didn’t see anything funky.

 

[kirvesmies]

@NeverGiveUpYota , did you get that issue sorted out?

 

[RDub]

It sounds a lot like some sort of electrical failure. Started to fail, truck bogged dash lights dimmed, stood on gas, lots of air/fuel in intake, stray final spark plug fired either out of time or just super rich, backfire through the intake. Maybe start looking at main power, ignition module...?

 

[roadstr6]

I had a very similar situation happen to me in my 55. It turned out to be a main power wire that had come unbundled and laid against the exhaust manifold. Once the insulation burned off, it shorted to ground. I was chugging along just fine then suddenly all electrical stopped working and then BOOM! Huge backfire. Backfire was so big, it blew my oval muffler into the shape of a basketball!

 

[NeverGiveUpYota]

Finally getting back to truck. I’m not speedy. CT weather was awful till this week.
Haha… fancy italics!
Kid helped me do oil pan and gasket last night. He enjoyed laughing at my holding of the oil pan up w/ my knee and seeing the amount of grease I was getting all over me. At 10 and nearly my weight and aware of what’s what he was a huge help.
Got it! Can someone remind me how the frame ground wire goes to the starter? I took it apart so fast I can’t recall and I can’t quickly find that section in my books. All set!
It definitely needed new plugs…