You have a safety solenoid that hooks to the oil sending unit that goes to the fuel pump. You might want to check and see if that is going bad. It is possible that when you turn the motor over that the solenoid is letting electricity to the fuel pump. Once it starts the oil safety switch is suppose to send electricity to the fuel pump. It should be located next to the oil sending unit, and have two wires going to it.
I believe I picked up bad gas for the 2nd time too. On the way home from our last trip it started to feel like I was dragging an anchor. It progressively got worse over the next 30 minutes. My first thought was my newly rebuilt transmission was overheating or going out. I pulled over and checked the transmission fluid. Everything looked good. However, I didn't turn the engine off as I wanted to keep fluids flowing through the tranny.
It wasn't until the engine started running rough enough that I realized it wasn't the transmission. It got to the point where I was barely doing 15mph. I was finally able to pull over into another gas station. I turned the engine off, went inside and got some octane booster and water treatment. I was about 30 minutes from home at this point. It ran fine the rest of the way home. I guess turning the engine off let the crud or whatever was clogging the line settle.
So here's the question. The pump was replaced with the new turbine style 3 years ago when I got bad gas the first time. So I'm pretty sure that isn't the problem. If, in fact, it is 50 gallons of bad gas, what can I do with it?
Zack
1998 Holiday Rambler Endeavor 36WGS
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NHgrizzly wrote: We have a 96 Challenger on the Ford F-53 chassis with the FI 460 V-8. We headed out for a long weekend at the beach. The RV wasn't running right and seemed to sputter - hesitate while accelerating. About 30 miles into the trip is a Walmart supercenter where we stop to load up. While sitting in the traffic exiting the highway the RV died. All of our worst night mares! ? Your class A dies in heavy holiday traffic. I managed to get it started and "double foot" the rv into the Walmart parking lot, where it sits now. After 5+ hours of troubleshooting here is my current thought and need a little support from the community.
Thinking this maybe a clogged fuel filter or possibly failing fuel pump. The previous owner claims he changes the pump twice, but I cannot confirm this.
The RV will start and will eventually die after a couple minutes. When I move it, it will also slowly get worsen until it sputters and dies.
This is a hell of a way to start a holiday weekend. My 7 year old was very patient the 5+hour trouble shooting period as dad worked on the camper..but his eyes welled up and the tears rolled down his face when I said we need to go home and come back in the morning. He enjoys camping as much as we do. There are no check engine lights, I removed the air intake tubes and that made no difference. It has to be fuel. Thoughts
This same thing just happened to me last weekend, except 2 kids and wife. I was able to send them home for the evening. Mine is still in the shop now. I have 2000 F53, changed fuel filter to no avail. When mechanic looked at fuel line, he said there were tiny holes all through it and we had to order a new fuel line. Hopefully it will be fixed today.
I've been paying close attention to the forums and it seems this is happening alot lately...fuel problems. I'm wondering if it may have to do with ETHANOL???????
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