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Scott Hayes (Scott_H)
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:35 am: | 
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So Kristian and I and my girlfriend are out in the Sierras this weekend I am in my 95 and he is in his. We are about 20 miles from the nearest town, about 6 miles into the trail. We stop for lunch after winching through snow banks and some small water crossing, and I go to start my disco...and it sputters and dies. We of course scratch our heads; there was no sign of a problem before. We turn the truck over and can�t hear the fuel pump kick in, this appears to be the problem, thinking this was an easy diagnosis..but a difficult problem to fix we unload my disco, take up the carpet, and open the access to the fuel pump.
We check the power to the pump in my disco, and then in Kristina�s...they are the same. Then we decide to pull the pump and have a look, realizing that once we pull it, we will probably stand around looking at it and be unable to fix it. So the fuel pump comes out and of course we scratch our heads...it�s a weird looking thing. Then we pull the cover on Kristians disco and hook up my pump..low and behold it runs. Now were really confused..its not the pump.
After testing all the power again, we decided to hook the positive and negative from my truck to Kristina's fuel pump...it doesn�t work...then we hook just the positive and negative to Kristian's truck up to his pump..and that doesn�t work. Now we are totally baffled. There are 4 wires to the fuel pump..a positive, a negative, the fuel gauge wire and another wire. We figure this other wire must do something, but what we don�t know, and it doesn�t have any power that we can see.
At this point I am tired, its getting cold and I want a beer. So we open the hood and just start poking around, checking fuses again, etc. when Kristian says, " ya see this thing?" I say "ya" he says, �it�s the fuel cut off switch set off if you get in an accident." I say, "Nice..does this have anything to do with beer?" Kristian pushes down on the button and I turn it over...nothing still. Then he unplugs it and one of the connections is burnt, he cleans it up and the damn thing started.
I just wanted to take a moment to relay this story and thank Kristian. I would have never thought of that... |
KJ
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 09:23 am: |
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And the moral of the story is:
EVERYTHING has to do with beer!
LOL, glad you got it sorted out, and thanks for the reminder about that switch. Hard to believe as we rev up for another scorching summer's day "Back East" that somewhere on the planet there is still a snow pack....
Karen  |
Mel A. (Krawlrovr)
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 10:21 am: |
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Glad to hear your Disco started, Scott. Once some crappy mechanic thought that he could make a few bucks off of me when I took my car in for some maintenance work. I picked up the car and tried to start it, it didn't even turn over. So I opened up the hood, took a look, and saw some greasy finger marks on the fuel cut off switch. I then flipped it down, and started the car. I went into the mechanics office and he said, �Did the car start up okay?� To make a long story short, we exchanged a few words, and I got my money back and left! I later found out that he didn�t even do any of the maintenance work on my Disco. It just sat in his shop for 2 hours. Apparently, some other people have complained about the shops horrible service, and he eventually quit. |
Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 11:02 am: |
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Scott - where do the other ends of the fuel pump end? |
muskyman
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:01 pm: |
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ok i know it all makes sence when your there doing it...but why did you disasemble the working truck?
see in my world then both trucks have the happenstance not to start?
glad to hear ya got home
....snow in june...i need to move west |
Scott Hayes (Scott_H)
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:14 pm: |
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dean
there is a white and purple wire that goes from the fuel pump to the fuel cutoff switch. Of the other 3 there is a power, a ground and a wire that goes to the fuel gauge.
Musky, we actually just umpluged the connector to the working trucks fuel pump, so we didnt take the fuel pump out. We wanted to see if the electrical charge was the same on both trucks, incase there was a short in mine nad it wasnt getting enough juice to run the pump. |
Ron Ward (Ronward)
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 08:55 pm: |
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Where's the cutoff switch? I've looked all over the firewall on my 1997 and can't seem to locate it. Anyone?
Ron Ward |
Kyle
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 09:10 pm: |
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I am sure KM is just loving those "Kristina" remarks....lol
Kyle |
Kristian
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 09:39 pm: |
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Oh no, here we go...
Scott- Finding the right thing was just a matter to time, like the monkeys hacking Shakespeare on a typewriter. |
Scott Hayes (Scott_H)
| | Posted on Monday, June 10, 2002 - 10:01 pm: |
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LOL...I used spell check and i guess it made a couple of inappropriate changes. |
Andy
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 12:18 pm: |
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This past sunday I was standing a snow bank with snow flurries falling on my head. It was in the 30's and I loved it. The best part is a 3.5 hour drive puts me in the deserts by Moab. Hi from a canyon in the Waschatch, just don't expect real beer :-(
Andy
Salt Lake City, UT |
Kim S (Roverine)
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 01:21 pm: |
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Hey Scott & Kristian,
Was just thinking about you guys the other day! (say Hi to Amy for me, too, and if you guys are out our way send us message and give us a holler!).
I'm glad to hear that you did get the fuel pump problem worked out okay ... One of my worst (nightmare in terms of conditions) breakdowns off road involved a fuel pump problem! I wished we could have had Kristian along then , heh heh. It was Easter Sunday morning, 1993. We were out about 17 miles north-east (I think) of the Salton Sea area. We were not supposed to have been going anywhere near that far out, as I was 7 months pregnant. Our CB had broken the day before - I don't know why, but we just kept following our friends and ended up there. I still look back and shake my head about that one ... Seriously, we're not stupid and retarded. Really. LOL, I think I was just overcome with pregnancy hormones and Greg was ...? (Okay, I'll blame it on Greg, hehehe). Anyway, we had just packed up our tent (with the zipper that had broken the day before as well), and loaded the truck up ... we go to start and, .. no turn over. Nothing. To make this long story a little shorter, we broke 2 tow straps just getting to the (at the time) one and only motel/gas pump/telephone land line out there (we refer to it as "The Bates Motel"). Bumping along getting towed, me with a maternity belt tightened under my belly and trying to keep that belly from bumping too much. (We're lucky our son was not born in Thermal). We then split up the family - myself, our daughter, and dog all rode back to the coast crammed in two other vehicles, and Greg didn't make it home for 3 days ...
Kim |
muskyman
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 05:04 pm: |
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desert repair tactics
fix it or stay in the desert |
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