JonC
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- '99 UK spec - LPG soon!
Hi guys,
had a bit of a result this week which I thought worth sharing with the wider community. The background to this is that my 1999 UK-spec 4.0L Explorer 'gently expired' recently whilst driving in that it just stopped. Something told me it was the fuel pump but at the roadside, I couldn't prove it.
I'd had the presence of mind to buy a recovery package some time ago so I had the truck recovered to home but on a large, ramp truck, it could only be unloaded onto the road outside my house and not up the drive where I can work on it more comfortably.
So what do you do? There's only me and the ladies and 2 1/4 tons of dead truck - not something you want to push and even if you did, you're not going to push it up the ramps for getting underneath!
I did the required electrical inspections and convinced myself it was a dead pump so one last check, I took the Schrader valve out of the left-bank fuel rail and using a funnel and hose, poured some fuel in. It tried to fire and run so at that point, I'm more convinced about the pump but as injectors have no suction, gravity isn't going to get me enough fuel in there to drive it.
Enter the hand-held garden spray...
Ditch the nozzle and adapt a hose onto the fuel rail valve, pump up the gas and sure enough, we have enough fuel - under enough pressure - to drive the truck across the road, up my drive and onto the ramps where I have subsequently successfully replaced the duff pump.
So now you know!
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had a bit of a result this week which I thought worth sharing with the wider community. The background to this is that my 1999 UK-spec 4.0L Explorer 'gently expired' recently whilst driving in that it just stopped. Something told me it was the fuel pump but at the roadside, I couldn't prove it.
I'd had the presence of mind to buy a recovery package some time ago so I had the truck recovered to home but on a large, ramp truck, it could only be unloaded onto the road outside my house and not up the drive where I can work on it more comfortably.
So what do you do? There's only me and the ladies and 2 1/4 tons of dead truck - not something you want to push and even if you did, you're not going to push it up the ramps for getting underneath!
I did the required electrical inspections and convinced myself it was a dead pump so one last check, I took the Schrader valve out of the left-bank fuel rail and using a funnel and hose, poured some fuel in. It tried to fire and run so at that point, I'm more convinced about the pump but as injectors have no suction, gravity isn't going to get me enough fuel in there to drive it.
Enter the hand-held garden spray...
Ditch the nozzle and adapt a hose onto the fuel rail valve, pump up the gas and sure enough, we have enough fuel - under enough pressure - to drive the truck across the road, up my drive and onto the ramps where I have subsequently successfully replaced the duff pump.
So now you know!
Pictures