I have been thinking of adding a fuel pressure gauge, this post just confirmed My need for that.
thank You for posting this information.
While I`m at it, a vacuum gauge too.
Ted R (635 member) was a trucker and got me kinda gauge-ish. Boost, EGT and Fuel Pressure on the pillar. Air Intake, Transmission and Oil Pressure on top of the instrument cluster (Lights are brighter for the picture).
@Paveltolz Nice to know about the airdog. nicer yet to know when something quits working and saves you from excessive wear on something else! kinda peaks my interest that you says it ran better- makes me think about meangreenh1 / greenmeanie, what the heck is your screen name here? ugg! the electric controlled and adjustable pressure system he designed I think is the next evolution for fuel improvments by the sound of it, demonstrated by you here.
Not sure what the story on the Air Dog's failure is. I knew it was 'flow on fail' from an earlier episode of relay failure. I'll do a more thorough diagnostic later. Right now my Give a Squat Gauge is pegged at Zero...still road buzzy from 19hrs of driving and the hour or so of the fuse, relay dance in the parking lot at O Reilly in Flagstaff.
A small success story from yesterday though to add to the 'What did you do....' part of this thread.
solved a recently emerging issue of 'my hood won't open.' It used to jump when the release handle was pulled. Lately it's been doing the'pop noise but no jump' when the release was pulled which had been easily solved by a slight fist bump to the hood. Anyone know why that works? I do now.
Anyway, the fist bump thing had turned into more of a Fist Wham which AKDiesel saw on his trip through. That, of course, failed almost completely yesterday too. When I did get it open, I drove around Flagstaff slowly with just the safety latch engaged.
Cable and release lever all work, no restrictions etc. The release latch doesn't have a spring to pull it back once the one the cable activates releases which was what I originally thought was wrong.
Here is the latch (highlightedclosed position.
The "spring" is provided by the one on the hood. Once the release is pulled, (pointed out below), the spring is allowed to push the hood up causing the latch to rotate out of the way.
Opened it looks a like everyone else's does.
Get enough road gack, oil, grease and dirt in there and you have a very uncooperative latch.
Solution.... if one will spray release mechanism with a much more than is environmentally friendly amount of brake cleaner, manipulate the latch to move around the remaining gack, then spray it some more, that latch literally floats where as before, it was practically frozen in place which, given the colder temps was probably a lot of the issue. I hit it with White Lithium Grease but, given the winter temps setting in, that might be a mistake. Oh well, I still have some brake cleaner in that can I bought in Flagstaff.....
