SlowBoat
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Been looking at a 99 3500 w 6.5L that's been sitting a while. The owner said it just kept getting slower and slower till it wouldn't do anything but idle in neutral. The fuel filter manager filter was supposedly replaced on the road by a mechanic who charged him $100 for the repair and let him go on his way. The owner didn't know what had been done, just that he made it about 50 miles farther up the road and it quit pulling and he had it towed home. It had been parked ever since. So the story goes.
I took batteries, and went to look it over. The flatbed had already been removed, so the tank sending unit/pickup was easy. The tank was full of water, sediment and sandy mud, literally. The pump was inoperative and the lines were almost completely plugged. The FFM was almost full to the top with the same junk and when I pulled the filter out it was slashed vertically all around in order to let fuel through it! The last ditch screen was missing. I pulled the line to the injection pump inlet and it too was plugged full. The actual injection pump fitting was removed and guess what, it looked halfway decent, on the outside. Pulling the top fitting revealed internal plugging and destroying the outer screen revealed a disgusting mess.
I looked around the place and see next door older farm tractors in various states of disrepair at a former large farm operation. An OLD diesel fueling trailer is sitting in under a leaking lean to shelter among the grain silos. EVERYTHING is about an inch deep in dust and cobwebs everywhere here. The fueling hose is actually laying on the ground partially covered in mud. I'm having my doubts about his story about now. Me thinks that poor maintenance has caught up with this one, and I am going to pass on it. No incriminating photos will be provided other than the injection pump inlet fitting. It says it all. You don't slash a fuel filter in order to get home!
The pics show the fitting as I rotated it on its side.
I took batteries, and went to look it over. The flatbed had already been removed, so the tank sending unit/pickup was easy. The tank was full of water, sediment and sandy mud, literally. The pump was inoperative and the lines were almost completely plugged. The FFM was almost full to the top with the same junk and when I pulled the filter out it was slashed vertically all around in order to let fuel through it! The last ditch screen was missing. I pulled the line to the injection pump inlet and it too was plugged full. The actual injection pump fitting was removed and guess what, it looked halfway decent, on the outside. Pulling the top fitting revealed internal plugging and destroying the outer screen revealed a disgusting mess.
I looked around the place and see next door older farm tractors in various states of disrepair at a former large farm operation. An OLD diesel fueling trailer is sitting in under a leaking lean to shelter among the grain silos. EVERYTHING is about an inch deep in dust and cobwebs everywhere here. The fueling hose is actually laying on the ground partially covered in mud. I'm having my doubts about his story about now. Me thinks that poor maintenance has caught up with this one, and I am going to pass on it. No incriminating photos will be provided other than the injection pump inlet fitting. It says it all. You don't slash a fuel filter in order to get home!
The pics show the fitting as I rotated it on its side.