Need Help... Truck won't start
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Need Help... Truck won't start
Okay, I went out to try and start up my truck and it wouldn't turn over. It cranks and sounds like it wants to turn over, but it just refuses to. I tested the battery and it is good, old but still good, I even tryed to jump start it. I tryed a few tricks off of here to test the starter and that seems to be working too. It has just under three-quarters of a tank of gas, I use E85, and it hasn't been that cold or wet (for Minnesota). Does anyone have any idea why it might not be turning over? Any help would be appreciated.
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Originally Posted by Hot Wheels
Okay, I went out to try and start up my truck and it wouldn't turn over. It cranks and sounds like it wants to turn over, but it just refuses to. I tested the battery and it is good, old but still good, I even tryed to jump start it. I tryed a few tricks off of here to test the starter and that seems to be working too. It has just under three-quarters of a tank of gas, I use E85, and it hasn't been that cold or wet (for Minnesota). Does anyone have any idea why it might not be turning over? Any help would be appreciated.
You sure that your gas line isn't frozen? Have you been putting dry gas in?
My plow Jeep sits so long I generally have to give it a squirt of starting fluid in the intake to get it going. That would also tell you if gas is getting to it or not.
If this happened all at once I'd bet on frozen.
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oh i didnt even notice you were from MN. its possible that its maybe frozen seeing as we have had kinda cold weather lately. do you drive it regularly? im not an expert on E85, but it might act a bit different in the winter compaired to regular gas idk..
but it looks like you have tried most if not all the usual things to look at..
but it looks like you have tried most if not all the usual things to look at..
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Yeah it's my daily driver so I got lucky when there was another car home that I could use. I like using the E85. I feel it gives it more pep, or at least as much pep as a 3.0 can get I've never had it act differently in the winter. Last winter I made the switch from unleaded to E85 and I never had an issue. I'll try that switch that bwester04 mentioned if I can find it. And I'll put in the fuel filter, it needs it anyways. Thanks for all the input, I appreciate it.
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It's not on the passenger's kick panel. It's at the corner of the fire-wall and passenger's-side kick panel. It's a black housing with a red button. If you depress this button it will reset your fuel pump inertia switch. (Hint: If this switch is tripped, it may be faulty. It's designed to only trip in the event of an abrupt inertia change!)
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Yeah, checked the coil pack, plugs (only 6 months old), and all the wires too. It looks like it's in the fuel system. I'm hoping it's just a fuel filter otherwise I have to somehow check the rest of the fuel lines. I'm also gonna throw in a bottle of the isopropyl stuff just in case I did get water in there somehow, it was dry when I filled up, but anything is possible
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