Lift pump to high pressure in tank setup

[Uncle Gump]

Not enough...

That's why I bought a second one.

All parts are hit or miss anymore.

Question for you... what injectors did you buy? Lots of horror stories come with most it seems.

 

[ryan445]

I wouldn’t hesitate to keep a plastic tank, but steel tanks around here are no good. Rust is a nightmare.

There’s two good reasons to redo the lines. The first is age. The second is that to go to a single pump in the tank, you need to at least eliminate the frame pump. Realistically you could also toss the fuel reservoir as well. Splicing stuff in creates more potential failure points on an already old system.

On my 00 and 92 Rangers I pulled the bed to deal with the fuel system. Of course, I also had other work to do that the bed off the truck made convenient, except for when the pump got replaced on the 00 (that was done prior to the lines needing replacement). My 89 Bronco II got an access hatch above the pump by me probably 15 years ago so I didn’t have to drop anything to do the lines.

The truck was in California for most of its life. I moved out to Texas 6 years ago and it came with me. The humidity in Texas would defiantly rust a tank, especially with the 10% ethanol that is in todays gas pulling in that moisture.

On a note about the lines, this truck has a carbon canister under the hood. Doubt it does anything anymore. Should I need to worry about that?

 

[ryan445]

Not enough...

That's why I bought a second one.

All parts are hit or miss anymore.

Question for you... what injectors did you buy? Lots of horror stories come with most it seems.

I send my 4 factory ones off to injector planet to be rebuilt and flow tested. He also supplied me with two matching bosch ones he had on hand.

I had this issue before doing the injectors along with just overall sluggishness all around and horrible idle. The other issues are gone, just this one remains.

I will say all of these issues didn't exist until I let the truck sit for 4 years. I know varnished gas did what varnished gas does best. Mess stuff up.

 

[ryan445]

Just drove home from work and I had to limp it home. Was driving fine and stopped at the store. When I went back out, the truck started but was struggling to idle. Turned it off and cycled the key and it fired up okay. Once I got on the street, once it hit 3k rpms it would speed up, loose power and kept that rhythm going. Thought I wasn't gonna make it home.

I looked around under the truck when I got home and found a leak in one of the lines towards the tank. Although just a pin hole one....