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irishman999 · 07-22-2010, 02:30 AM

The plan was to drive it from las cruces to Ruidoso Nm but instead its 5 miles out of town on the side of some road. Completely irritating day, im sun burnt and sore and completely defeated.

I spent about 5 hours trying to figure out why it would start and run sometimes and all of a sudden have no spark. My dad is so incredibly good at troubleshooting he told me over the phone to check the middle ground prong in the coil. I was thinking it was the spark control module and trying to bypass it.

I had it on the road, drove it to the gas station and filled it up, while pulling out it died, along with the new battery. My friend helped me pullstart it and it started just as the rope snapped and ran good, i was getting confused.

It was running good enough i decided to try and leave town, right in front of a parts store it started starving for fuel. I pulled into the store and bought a new fuel pump and installed it in the parking lott. The truck ran great so i took off on the highway and made it 5 miles until i had absolutely no power at all, even in first with wide open throttle it would not move. I pulled over and could hear at least 2 dead cylinders, for some reason it leaned out bad i guess. Im super pissed, i've done alot of work to this truck and spent a good deal of money and now its sitting on the side of some road somewhere.

Is anyone else ready to drop a pineapple grenade into their truck and walk away?

07-22-2010, 02:30 AM	#1
irishman999 Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Reno Ne-VAH-da Posts: 594	Post about my GMC "making it" The plan was to drive it from las cruces to Ruidoso Nm but instead its 5 miles out of town on the side of some road. Completely irritating day, im sun burnt and sore and completely defeated. I spent about 5 hours trying to figure out why it would start and run sometimes and all of a sudden have no spark. My dad is so incredibly good at troubleshooting he told me over the phone to check the middle ground prong in the coil. I was thinking it was the spark control module and trying to bypass it. I had it on the road, drove it to the gas station and filled it up, while pulling out it died, along with the new battery. My friend helped me pullstart it and it started just as the rope snapped and ran good, i was getting confused. It was running good enough i decided to try and leave town, right in front of a parts store it started starving for fuel. I pulled into the store and bought a new fuel pump and installed it in the parking lott. The truck ran great so i took off on the highway and made it 5 miles until i had absolutely no power at all, even in first with wide open throttle it would not move. I pulled over and could hear at least 2 dead cylinders, for some reason it leaned out bad i guess. Im super pissed, i've done alot of work to this truck and spent a good deal of money and now its sitting on the side of some road somewhere. Is anyone else ready to drop a pineapple grenade into their truck and walk away?