Ran out of gas

Rodney Colvin · Oct 8, 2011

I'm new here, this is my first post.
So I ran my truck out of gas a cuple of days ago, and now it's been running bad. I replaced the fuel filter and that helped some. That exit side is one tuff cookie to figure out how to remove.Then today I shoved a bunch of seafoam down the intake and put the rest of the can down the gas tank. It seems to be running better. I have never had any problems about how my truck before I ran out of gas, it was just one sweet running truck. Is there anything else I should check or should this clear up? Thanks!

doorgunner · Oct 8, 2011

try adding a product that removes moisture from the fuel system in case there was a little water in the bottom of the gas tank that the fuel pump sent into the fuel lines when the tank ran empty....

Fargo Wolf · Oct 9, 2011

Check the fuel pump as well. When you get down to the dregs, the pump will start sucking whatever contaminants may be in the tank, irregardless of the fuel filter (the filter gets MOST, but not all contaminants).

doorgunner · Oct 9, 2011

"bleed" the air outta the fuel rail...............

Rodney Colvin · Oct 9, 2011

now not starting at all

It started acting up again, so I called a ford guy, and he said something else disolged it self and then clogged something most likly and that I should probaly sea foam it again. So I did and stopped it half way threw the can, waited 30 minutes, and now the truck wont start? so now what? Should I just take it to a shop?

Psychopete · Oct 9, 2011

I'd put a fuel pressure gauge on it and see what is going on. Running the pump without fuel isn't good for it, that's what keeps it cool. It's easy to burn up a pump if the tank is dry. Can take it to a shop if getting a hold of a gauge and doing some checking around seems unreasonable enough that you would want to pay someone else to do it for you (to answer your question

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naford · Oct 10, 2011

At the fuel rail where you put the pressure gauge try and pump out some of the gas and see if it has any crap in it. If there is keep pumping gas until it is clean. You probably sucked some sediment from the tank.

Rodney Colvin · Oct 11, 2011

I got my truck fixed, this must be some kind of vodoo. Alright, the sea foam and the filter change cleaned up the junk from running out of gas. The reason why the truck woulden't start was because leaves were blocking the mapp sensor in the air intake! I would of never of figured that one out. But they charged me 115 bucks to do yea.

AllanD · Oct 12, 2011

doorgunner said:
try adding a product that removes moisture from the fuel system in case there was a little water in the bottom of the gas tank that the fuel pump sent into the fuel lines when the tank ran empty....

Why would anyone think this?

Water SINKS in gasoline, if there was anything in the tank full or empty that "Crap" would get sucked up FIRST

Water gets sucked in immediatly.

MORE likely that running dry damaged the pump.

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country0001 · Oct 12, 2011

AllanD said:
Why would anyone think this?

Water SINKS in gasoline, if there was anything in the tank full or empty that "Crap" would get sucked up FIRST

Water gets sucked in immediatly.

MORE likely that running dry damaged the pump.

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In addition, if you are running fuel with ethanol in it, it will bond with the water(its an alcohol) and run anyways.

The ethanol will also clean the tank.

06RangerXLT · Oct 12, 2011

so wheres your air filter? its designed to pickup dust, so leaves shouldnt be too hard.

Rodney Colvin · Oct 13, 2011

I check the air filter and it was fine and intacked, they must of found their way in there from whoever had the truck before the guy i got the truck from. I don't understand how either, maybe he was working on it and just had the pipe off? The manchanic said they looked like they were there for a long time. And they said the fuel pump was fine. I'm just glad my baby is running great again!

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