Where is everyone #5

Argentina is a big beef producing country. In the early 70's the price of cattle was healthy and cattlemen were making money. Nixon, being the chickensh.it he was, opened the flood gates for Argentina beef and literally wrecked the beef market here for several years. People tend to think if someone has cattle they have money and lots of it. That's not necessarily true. A lot of those guys struggle to make it work just like the rest of us, and there are those that started life on third base and think they hit a home run. I'm sure beef is still coming in from Argentina, but how much I don't know.

 

You had me smelling my arm pits.

 

Saw this woman at a truck stop garage. She had her entire face tattooed. I know some people think it’s cool and all and they’re being different and blazing a trail and whatever....

Just understand your appearance can hurt your employment opportunities. If Kat von D had tattered her whole face, she would had never been on TV.

 

I meant to ask, does anyone see anything....odd?

 

Why is he wearing gloves and what appears to be a shooting vest?

 

@Lysdexis that engine will start and run with 0 oil psi, it doesn't need to "see" oil psi before energizing the injectors. You'll see what I mean the first time you change oil. That being said, the oil psi sensor is located down by the starter in main oil galley and they were notorious for going bad as oil would wick through the bellows and into the connector, but everyone I changed was accompanied by a CEL and/or SEL and would show oil psi with key on engine off. Also, the check valve in the ECM cooling plate was initially introduced to help fuel drain back during a filter change not as a hard-start fix, in fact you can blow through a new check valve both ways without much effort. If the fuel system is "tight" there is no need for the valve, they were around quite awhile before that was introduced. The EPS needs to see TDC via cam gear 2 times before ECM will allow it to start and the EPS was notorious for allowing oil into the sensor but most times it would show issues at every start, hot or cold. It wouldn't hurt to pull it out and check it but if it has a colored anodized housing it's probably fine.

Like others have mentioned, fuel lines are easy to do and on a truck of that age would be good preventative maintenance anyway. I see your fuel pump doesn't have return fuel plumbed into like the early ones did which would cause seal damage internally from the pulsing return fuel and lead to hard start complaints. That small 90° fuel line that runs to the underside of your pump was the updated plumbing.

Sorry for being so windy, just wanted to give you what info I still had rolling around in my noggin after all these years. You've received the best advice already....#1 replace all fuel lines, #2 pull ECM cooling plate and pressure test it while fuel lines are off. You'll likely be surprised at the corrosion on it where ECM mounts to it. You will also break a couple ECM mounting bolts I'm sure so be prepared for that as well. #3 If yours has a frame mounted primary filter remove the filter base and inspect it closely or just replace it and make sure the bracket it bolts to has a smooth surface where it mounts and tighten it up evenly to keep from putting any stress on it. After that if it still has issues you're looking at fuel pump seals, fuel jumper tubes and/or o-rings, injectors and/ or o-rings, etc but the above mentioned items are easy enough to be done in your driveway and need to be addressed anyway. Good luck!

 

I thought it was supposed to do that. Kind of smart I thought. Put it back in when you're done and drive her home.

 

This morning newspaper.....

 

You mean the driving gloves, or the shooting vest or being parked in a handicap spot or even though it looks like guy, it could be a girl and she's pregnant?