Ok well this morning i left to go to work and my 96 dodge 1500 with the 5.9 gas, started up just fine but i could tell somthing was up. when i would let off the gas it felt like something was restricting the engine but it had happened before and it worked it self out. well i get about 2 mins away from work and my rpms drop to 200 and just goes between 400 and 200 rpms, it dies as im turning onto a side street.

i let it sit and i try and start it, it starts but it doesnt go up to 1500 rpms like usall and then idle out. it hits maybe 700 and drops to 200-400 rpms. my buddy gets there and he trys to start it and it does the samething as before. i ask him to start it again and when he does i tell him to hit the gas and when he does it sounds like its sucking in air but not getting enough fuel.

so i just found out that it doesnt have a seperate fuel filter, the filter and the pump is one unit. my question is is there anything else i should do before taking the time to replace the pump?

should i go and get a fuel pressure reg and see if its the pump?
if so what should my pressure be at?
or should i just got get it done?

 

Check the plenum gasket first, take the air cleaner assembly off and open the butterflies and look down into the TB and see if you have oil pooling in the intake.If you don't, thats good! next , you can try and clean the IAC and TPS per the DIY section on the site.

 

Do what Zman said and if everything is ok and clean, check your pressure. I believe I read somewhere that the pressure should be between 50-55. Always check before replace. Why spend big bux on something not broke.

 

well i looked into the intake and there is not oil pooling, im going to clean the iac and the tps sensor tommorow. here is what i have done, i took the pressure cap off and i pushed the pin in the center and a little gas came out, i then had my buddy press the pin ad i tried to start it and there was nothing coming out of the check valve. so what do yall think signs leading towards a fuel pump?

 

Yep could be a bad pump. Hey magic, your not the magic8ball from BF2 are you?

 

um i may have had a user id with that name but my main was fatman

 

well i went ahead and bought the new pump only cause they had one left and in the past iv had bad luck just hoping it would be there when i needed it and it not being there. so i went and got that and then low and behold i broke off the hose barb for the turnover valve so yea. im going to get the electronic cleaner tomorrow and see if it works.

 

Did you make videos of BF2?

 

no i just mainly ran a clan, matched, ran a server and thats about it.

 

but ya what was your in game name?