cjken
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Two Part Post.
Part 1 Towing nightmare!!
Part 2 Looking for 7.3 help?
So I am driving my van today. Recently I have only been driving it between my two business locations. Less than 70 mi per week.
It starts running rough with no power. I have a chance to pull into a parking lot but then it smooths out and seems fine so I push my luck. I am soo close to my destination. Going up a hill now it starts running rough then seems fine then goes rough then stalls just short of being able to make a turn off the main (4 lane road) on to a side street. I partially make the turn but tail is still completely in one of 2 east bound lanes..
Cannot restart at all. 20-30 min later Flat bed arrives. Driver starts winching truck up bed. Gets it all the way up, sets chains on rear axle starts winching again to tighten them up. We hear a loud snap!!! My truck rolls down steep flat bed and starts down hill into on coming traffic. Truck driver just stands there completely dumbfounded by what just happened. My wife looks like the scream painting with both hands on the side of her face. They might as well have had cement blocks on their feet. As truck passes me backward I start sprinting. Manage to jump on side step and smoothly dive into passenger door. Truck is accelerating down hill I barley get to it before it is going too fast for me to catch. I slither to drivers side and slam on the brakes stopping the truck. It was turning slightly so it made its way up a curb. When I get out I look and it cleared a telephone pole on the right side by less than a foot!! Behind it is another pole about a foot and a half to two feet behind it!!
Tow truck driver is white as a ghost and shaking!! He can barely complete full sentences!! I really think 1/4 of a second later and it would have been in the poles.. SOOO Lucky!!
Police show up and cannot believe what happened. Driver is so flustered he starts to just drive away with out his chains to either get another truck or cable. I yell across street and he comes back and we decide we should use a chain to at least pull my van off the main road.. We get it safely off the road. Later driver comes back with fixed truck and we get it home!!
Driver was so shaken I felt bad for him!! Gave him some lunch money and he goes on his way! I hope that he took the rest of the day off!
Could have been so much worse.
Part 2 So need to find out why 95 7.3 will not start.
Any suggestions as to where to start diagnostic wise??
It cranks but no sigh of starting. Something on the oil side?? ICP, IPR, HPOP?
Maybe has not been idling as well as normal for the last week. I chalked it up to the colder temps of late..
Being a van its hard to dig into so I want to get an idea of what to check before I start tearing things apart..
Thanks
Part 1 Towing nightmare!!
Part 2 Looking for 7.3 help?
So I am driving my van today. Recently I have only been driving it between my two business locations. Less than 70 mi per week.
It starts running rough with no power. I have a chance to pull into a parking lot but then it smooths out and seems fine so I push my luck. I am soo close to my destination. Going up a hill now it starts running rough then seems fine then goes rough then stalls just short of being able to make a turn off the main (4 lane road) on to a side street. I partially make the turn but tail is still completely in one of 2 east bound lanes..
Cannot restart at all. 20-30 min later Flat bed arrives. Driver starts winching truck up bed. Gets it all the way up, sets chains on rear axle starts winching again to tighten them up. We hear a loud snap!!! My truck rolls down steep flat bed and starts down hill into on coming traffic. Truck driver just stands there completely dumbfounded by what just happened. My wife looks like the scream painting with both hands on the side of her face. They might as well have had cement blocks on their feet. As truck passes me backward I start sprinting. Manage to jump on side step and smoothly dive into passenger door. Truck is accelerating down hill I barley get to it before it is going too fast for me to catch. I slither to drivers side and slam on the brakes stopping the truck. It was turning slightly so it made its way up a curb. When I get out I look and it cleared a telephone pole on the right side by less than a foot!! Behind it is another pole about a foot and a half to two feet behind it!!
Tow truck driver is white as a ghost and shaking!! He can barely complete full sentences!! I really think 1/4 of a second later and it would have been in the poles.. SOOO Lucky!!
Police show up and cannot believe what happened. Driver is so flustered he starts to just drive away with out his chains to either get another truck or cable. I yell across street and he comes back and we decide we should use a chain to at least pull my van off the main road.. We get it safely off the road. Later driver comes back with fixed truck and we get it home!!
Driver was so shaken I felt bad for him!! Gave him some lunch money and he goes on his way! I hope that he took the rest of the day off!
Could have been so much worse.
Part 2 So need to find out why 95 7.3 will not start.
Any suggestions as to where to start diagnostic wise??
It cranks but no sigh of starting. Something on the oil side?? ICP, IPR, HPOP?
Maybe has not been idling as well as normal for the last week. I chalked it up to the colder temps of late..
Being a van its hard to dig into so I want to get an idea of what to check before I start tearing things apart..
Thanks
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