Just Got Home.......

Well, everything was going very well, hauling 4-5 yards in a go, unloading fast and easy, and then it started sputtering coming home with the 4th load... Made it about 1/2 way home, and it just died, no popping/sputtering/choking, it just DIED.... (along with my positive spirit!)

Soo, there I sat, side of the road, loaded, dead. This is the point where I realized how many people in this world are complete $%^&*.. I tried flagging 4 YES, FOUR cars down to try to get a ride, use a phone, what ever. The first three wouldn't even stop, or slow down for that matter! The forth one was a WA plate, and the guy and lady pulled up, and he rolled his window down about 1/2 an inch and asked if I was okay, I said well ya, but I need a ride or a phone... He said that his phone didn't work out there and that he didn't trust me to give me a ride "sooo sorry!" and off he went?!?!?!?!?!?!

Next a buddy came along, and he told me he would go home and tell mom what happened, then she came out, then all at one time I had four neighbors, two Mormon boys, mom, and myself ALL attempting to get underneath the hood of the truck!

Anyway, got it pulled off the road, one guy happened to have a little 12 volt fuel pump at home, 15 min away, he went and got it, while I messed with it got back, and we realize that it is a 6 volt system, with a farmer rigged 12 volt battery... Wires aren't long enough to make it from the pump/lines to the battery, so everyone goes home. I come back with quick wires, hook the pump up, and it is pumping away, but it won't pull fuel?? Blew into the tank, pulled fuel, but then stopped when I quit blowing!??!

Finally got everything hooked up, and was able to start it off of dumping fuel in the carb, and I made it home. Got home and went to raise the bed to unload, nothing happens? Made sure the lever was back, yes, made sure the relief valve was closed, yes... Finally figured out that the little pin on the end of the lever rattled out along the way, and it wasn't engaging the pump when I slid the lever.

So, another normal day in the life of a working guy huh?? I will get some pictures one of these days... Maybe tomorrow... One of you guys needs to hold me to that!!!

We had a 65 ford F600 grain truck. That thing would really fly when it was empty. That was my favorite grain truck of all time.

I gave me fits one trip to town. I went slower and slower until I crawled into the elevator. It was the fuel pump that time, too. The only time my old 58 GMC has given me trouble it was the fuel pump. Of course it was on the ramp into the pit at the elevator.

Don't get smart and think you will put an electric on it and upgrade. They don't make them like they used to and one of mine on my train truck (one of five I tried one summer) lasted literally four days. Go to NAPA and and get the original style. It will last you a good 20 years.

Electric fuel pumps are made to push fuel not pull it. In order to work properly they need to be as close to the fuel tank as possible.

I agree with Notjustair about fuel pumps not lasting. We had a econoline van we bought that had been sitting for a long time. The tank was full of crap. But first we thought the fuel pump was bad so we put on an electric one. We ended up with a new tank, but left the elec. pump on. With cheap pumps, they didn't last very long. The $50 ones usually lasted a year.

All in the days that follow a Full Moon!!!

I think your truck should be 12V, not 6. Ford changed to 12V on vehicles in the late '50s. Even the GMC you posted about the other day would be 12V, as GM switched in '55.

Well, it had an electric one on it, and it was a truly bad job... The ground was simply a stripped wire stuck between two pieces of metal and pinched down, and the power was a stripped wire, rapped around the + post of the Ignition Coil!!

This is just what came along, and well, it got me home!! I suppose that is all that counts! I am going to get it into the shop and do a bunch of work on it, but I can't now because someones JD G is all torn apart as CLOSE to the front door as possible... That is another story though... Bryce