A couple weeks ago as I was driving along my truck began to shake and lost power. No check engine light came on. I had ran some E85 the week before so I thought maybe that caused the problem. I changed the spark plugs and wires,fuel filter and also added some Lucas injector cleaner...no change. The next day the check engine light came on, so I went to have the parts store to have them check the code. They said it had a misfire on cylinder 6, and lean on bank 2. Can anyone tell me what would cause something like this to happen?? This truck didn't have much power to start with...now it has none. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Just went to town and now the battery light is flashing. Now what is going on?? I was kinda thinking maybe a dirty or defective injector, but now I'm even more confused. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!

 

Try cleaning / checking all the ground connections. Someone posted a while back that a bad ground to the engine was causing a sporadic misfire .
The battery light flashing could also be a bad ground , the alternator failing , or the serpentine belt tensioner may be frozen and letting the belt slip.

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These trucks don't seem to like to run well on E85.

 

My truck runs great on E85, much better on corn than gasoline.

Check your injectors jscantland, if you have a VOM, disconnect the injector plug and check the resistance. Should be about 14-16ohms.

 

Couldn't take it anymore so I decided to buy the manual and tear into it. I tested the #6 injector and guess what...no resistance, all the others tested good. Replaced the bad injector and also the # 6 spark plug because it was already wasted. Now she runs like a champ, well, as good as a stock 3.slow can be expected to. The battery light isn't flickering anymore either. I just wanted to say thanks to you guys for your input.

Justin

 

how did you test the injector?

 

Hook a lead to each prong to test resistance.

 

is there a good how to that you know of that i can read to how to get and replace injectors?

 

I bought the Haynes Manual. It tells you step by step how to do almost everything. If you have a little general mechanical knowledge, you can figure it out. Against my better judgement, I just went to Advance Auto Parts to get the injector. I'm thinking it was $55-60. I did see some cheaper on E-bay, but didn't want to wait on shipping and so on.

 

yea thats the only reason i buy from advance. i look on other sites for the right part then go to advance, price match, and pick it up in store. shipping is annoying ha. but when you replace injectors, do you normally just do it one at a time, is it a regular maintenance practice? im saying should i replace mine? im sure they never have and my truck is reaching 200k.

 

I just replaced one, and I am at just under 150k. I can't tell you if that is the best way to go about it, but that fixed my problem. It would be real easy to change them all while you have the upper intake off. If I'd have had the extra $$$ I would have probably replaced them all.

 

basicaly, there right under the upper intake tho? sounds easy enough. thanks!!

 

You can get Motorcraft injectors through Rockauto for about $50.

 

sweet thank you very much...got myself a good list of projects

 

how many lbs/hour do i want??

 

Yes, once you remove upper intake you'll be able to access the fuel rails and injectors.

 

sweet deal. thank you! and as for the lbs/hour? do you know what stock is?