The bronco failed me today

[chrwilkins30]

Left the gas station and went to shift into 2 gear and my trucK just shut off. went to restart it and heard no fuel pump. buddy hauled me back to his place thinking it was just a bad pump. well took his out of his truck and still no go. where to start.?

 

[rusty70f100]

I don't know what the cutoff year was, but on my '87 there are 2 fuel pumps. There is one in the tank, and one on the frame. If you replace one and the other was bad, then that obviously wouldn't fix it.

 

[Boggin]

89 switched to the single in-tank pump

 

[shane96ranger]

My 91 Explorer did a similar thing. It somehow lost 12 volts going to the fuel pump relay. Fuse was good, everything checked out OK otherwise.

 

[chrwilkins30]

So how did you fix it.?

 

[Steeda04SVT]

Wiring to the plug to it looks fine and everything? Had the same thing happen to me in one of my old foxes and thought it was the pump, but all it was, was the cannon plug wasn't seated properly and reseated the plug and it worked like a champ.

 

[azbronco2]

did you check the inertia switch?

 

[RacinNdrummin]

did you check the inertia switch?

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... Hell my 05's inertia swtich just failed one day when my truck was about 2 years old, no hits or anything...

 

[chrwilkins30]

about to go try and fix it now. i was thinking the inertia switch while working today, just got home so im heading over to it in about 5. if it was the inertia switch would it still make the sound when turning the key.

 

[rangerted7]

I've had 2 rangers do the same thing to me 87 and 88 I got tired of not being able to fund the problem and hard wired the pump on the fuel rail. After that it ran perfect for a couple months then the tank pump quit so I hard wired it too. Sounds dangerous.. well it is but I'm still here and my truck still runs

 

[chrwilkins30]

well fixed the leaking oring on the sending unit and it fired right up again.(after clinking the inertia switch) drove it about a mile and it failed again. lucky i was still in the buddy yard. swapped out inertia switches and worked. drove it 6mile home and not a single problem. Yet.

 

[84bluebronco2]

If my inertia switch ever fails, it is being deleted...

 

[chrwilkins30]

If it ever happens again ill probably do it too.

 

[Mr.Hotrod]

I had the same exact problem, replaced the frame pump, worked for another 20 miles, shut off, and i was just so tempered idk what the problem was, so then i look at the switch and i twisted the two wires together and i instantly hear the pump turn on, my car never died since. Of course if you get in a wreck it will still be pumping gas... So just avoid any major rollovers.

 

[ROBSANTIL]

I had that problem with my 88 bronco ii. Came to be it was my fuel pump relay. Sometimes it would work then other times it would not. Once I got a new one at autozone. I havent broke down yet. Just a FYI to something that does fail after awhile.