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So my brother has a '86 F150 with a 5.0L, 4x2 auto trans fuel injected. It has an occasional stalling and or no start issue that comes and goes randomly. Knowing what I do I imagine it's a TFI issue, he's of course not a fan of firing the parts cannon... I've honestly not had personal experience with Ford's with distributors (I've only had DIS 2.3L's and 4.0L's, and a diesel...) but know that both the pickup in the distributor and the module on the side can be troublesome, and new parts are a crapshoot... last time he had issues I scrounged for a 2.3L distributor I had floating around and he put the module and pickup from it in there but it lasted a couple years before having similar issues...
So, thoughts? I imagine the fuel injection uses the pickup in the distributor for the rpm input, I've heard of using some HEI parts to make things work but don't remember where I saw that, it's just a farm truck that's ugly... it's not a daily driver or anything but I'd be willing to do some machining and or soldering or whatever to get something going...
So, thoughts? I imagine the fuel injection uses the pickup in the distributor for the rpm input, I've heard of using some HEI parts to make things work but don't remember where I saw that, it's just a farm truck that's ugly... it's not a daily driver or anything but I'd be willing to do some machining and or soldering or whatever to get something going...