gallons/min fuel leak(gusher)

[Chevy1925]

I will let yall know probably tomorrow it will take them a while to get to it. I hope it was the return but after talking to the guy this morning he is thinking the pump. I can only hope and pray it is a return line. What does it do to the injectors if it was the pump? I still have no codes so he said the high pressure side of the pump was working but the other side I guess the return side was probably bad. I will know tomorrow for sure..

if the pump took a dump, it will throw metal shavings all down into the injectors and fuel lines. starving the pump of fuel can cause a pump to fail very quick as well so what you did wasnt the brightest idea and may cost you. But you may have lucked out.

 

[Chevy1925]

Well I did it good all three plugs blown out, and a big pile of metal in the valley. They are flushing everything now. They were taking the gear off the front of the old pump and it was stuck probably spun a little bit. The gear cracked all the way from the hub to the teeth so I am waiting on a new one. Boy what a mess, they said they didn't see metal in the rails but they are flushing them anyway. I can only hope nothing got in the injectors.

it doesnt take much to stick an injector open and put a hole in your piston.

Shouldnt have driven the truck

 

[bcbio]

well it happened when I was driving and I am not sure how far I went after it happened, I didn't notice anything until I got out of the truck and smelled fuel. My hearing is shot and I didn't feel anything from the truck like sluggish or anything so maybe al the metal stayed on the low pressure side. If metal got in the injectors it would have gotten there right from the beginning. I hope I am lucky. I have an air dog and the guy at the shop said that was probably the only reason the truck kept running. We checked the water separator and there was no water or metal so looks like nothing made it back to the fuel tank. Probably so many holes in the pump it couldn't flow back to the tank.

 

[Colt]

Duh forget it.......

 

[Burn Down]

Duh forget it.......

That has to be the most lucid post I have ever seen you make...

 

[bcbio]

got the truck back yesterday, looks like god does look out for fools and drunks, at times I fit both but anyway no metal in the fuel rails and all the injectors are good no problems at all. I think the pump was limping for a while now because I seem to be getting better fuel mileage, I mean like 7 miles more to the gallon in town not much difference on the highway. Maybe the pressure was low but not low enough to make a code?? Or maybe when it broke it just jerked some sh-t loose in there. Anyway I parked the minivan, I am off Friday so I will put the four wheeler in the back deer hunt in the morning, Rock fish in the middle of the day and back in the stand for the afternoon hunt. I don't think I could make it much longer without my truck, one of the girls at work said it was a chick wagon I think she was talking about the bird :woott:

 

[TeaBagger2006]

lucky s.o.b

 

[Burn Down]

Lets us know how it is in 6 months... You are not out of the woods yet. Damage to the injectors can take some run time to pop up. Good luck to you.