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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: DnStClr on July 13, 2009, 09:03:57 pm
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Short story about my 87 tbi-The other day we had a big birthday bash for Bella, our 5 yr old granddaughter. after the party, my daughter ( WHO'S SINGLE ) had to return the tables & chairs back to the local Baptist church. So I loaded them up for her and went up to the house. Ten minutes later she comes in the house, "Daddy, the truck won't start!" Getting ready to go away, I had to wait til the next day to unload everything and reload it all into my newer truck. Now boys, those 8 ft long compressed board tables got heavy. I'm not a real big guy.. so anyway, after an hour of troubleshooting and stuff I hadn't come up with anything, and getting short tempered, I got back into the driver's seat to see (DUH) if the truck would start when I switched the fuel tank to the 2nd tank. Varoom- it started right up.. so I cut it off,switched back to the 1st tank and started it again- Varoom, it started right up.
I figured out that my granddaughter ,birthday girl, had bumped the fuel selector switch when she got in the truck and the switch was halfway between the left and right tanks- so nether would receive a signal to start its pump. I never noticed the halfway- made position of the switch, so it worked when I pushed to the correct position. Just goes to show ya- I ain't getting any smarter. :D
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Well Don, at least you figured it out. A little exercise never hurt anyone, huh?
Bella is a cutie
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Done that before myself...
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Glad to hear it Chris 8)
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Shame on you for blaming poor little Bella!!!!!!!
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It happens to all of us. I about went crazy a while back wondering what tool you would use to get to the rear bolts underneath the bench seat. It was probably a good half hour before I was given the bright idea "hey... why not scoot the seat up. theyre easier to reach that way."