RRLund: Thanks for that info.. I know very little as to if the pump has been refurbished (which may indicate if it has a leather or steel ring), and if so, when it was.. What I do know is I've put 15k miles on it so far without many issues. I'll give my local pump guy a call perhaps tomorrow and see if he thinks it could be a likely culprit. Hoping it'll hold out till spring if so, I'm only about 2 weeks from being laid off for the season, so there'll be no "overtime money" for a little while..
LJD: The starter was $110, not that the cost is anyone's business. I get most things at their cost plus 10% (helps when you spend the kinda money we spend on the farm account there). I too, have never had a problem with ANYTHING I've gotten through NAPA, aside that they made some warranty changes in the last year or so, so some of my stuff was prematurely off warranty, but I hear the cheap stores in town are doing the same crap.
The problem with your "mail order" starters is "A few days" does me NO GOOD when I can't shut off the truck for fear it will not restart, specially when it's my DAILY DRIVER! I'd have taken mine in for a rebuild at a local shop if I would have had the time to wait. We have a local farmer who also rebuilds alts, gens, starters, and the like, and his work is top notch, and if you should happen to have a problem, he stands behind his work, even years down the road.
Bandit: I do not usually and have very rarely ever plugged the truck in. Hit the key, hear the click of the glow plug relay.. wait until light is out, and fire it up, let it idle to warm up 5-10 minutes when cold out (which it needs to to defrost windows anyhow) and good to roll. Never has been a issue before. The engine is out of I believe a 1990 truck.. I bought a pair of engines from a friend, the one i was going to install was from a 1993 with nearly 400k on it.. and he said "Oh, and this engine goes with it.. it's supposed to run good and have 100k on it, I bought it from a guy who totaled the truck and I bought the engine for a spare/parts" I took the chance and dropped the "supposed to be good" into the truck.. Never looked back.
Juniur: Thanks for the info, do you know of a appropriate way to determine if that is in fact my trouble? I'd hate to lift the bed or drop the tank to find out that is not my issue. Maybe I'll try to run it on the back tank and see if the cold start issue changes.. I use the front tank 90% of the time, and the rear is usually my "reserve tank".. when the previous owners installed the flat bed, they did a little fabbing to make sure the front tank takes fuel well.. The back tank needs some changing.. it takes nearly 10 minutes to fill the rear tank.. But since I fill it up and just sip out of it as needed, I only fill it once every 60 days or so.
Again guys, the cold start was not my original issue.. But I do appreciate things to look at, as it too needs corrected. The issue is why would it stall when I side-step off the accelerator? If I decelerate slowly, no troubles.. If I flat foot the pedal, it up and goes just like it always has (no setting speed records, but no noticeable hesitation. If I get on the freeway, it's a screamin, but will run 80 without trouble. Again, it was doing this last night, I found it accidentally while diagnosing what seems to be a squeaky alternator, after about a 20 mile drive. It has never stalled on the road, aside when one of the filters plugged up on my way home from work one evening.
All that I would like is to be told what could be going on so i can keep a eye on things.. Gettin too cold to be walking here in Michigan. Like I also said, I turned up the curb idle slightly, and then it seemed to stop stalling, so maybe the idle was just too low all along..
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