Cheers Everyone! I am a longtime owner of a 1995 GMC Seirra Extended Cab 2wd 350 5 Speed. I love the truck, I pull my trailers with it and the truck supports all of my racing adventures. No AC, No Radio, No Problem! I am very lucky to find this forum, I am now just finding out about the finicky fuel pumps these things have and all the work needed to swap out a fuel pump.
Last week I was trying to get home by a certain time and I was wanting to burn out all the "Summer Time" gas in the tank (I store it all winter with a full tank of Rec Gas). I got it home with only about 1.5 to 2 gallons in the tank. I was pretty far below the E mark on the gauge, I should have stopped at a gas station. The truck was running fine, I filled it up the next day with Rec gas, 23 gallons. I don't normally run it down to Empty. Well when I did a warm/hot start it cranked MUCH longer than normal before finally slowly firing up. I am going to change my fuel filter, I might have picked up some garbage in the tank running it that low. Plus, I have never changed the fuel filter, so its due for sure.
Do you guys think I could have ruined my fuel pump by doing this? Cold starts are great, its the warm/hot start that started acting strange. I feel like one time should not have killed it, but I don't know how old that fuel pump is, the truck has 225,000 on it and I have owned it for 20 years. I think I got it with 180,000 on it. I hate self inflicted wounds.
Thanks for the help, I am looking forward to hanging out on this forum.
Ben
Last week I was trying to get home by a certain time and I was wanting to burn out all the "Summer Time" gas in the tank (I store it all winter with a full tank of Rec Gas). I got it home with only about 1.5 to 2 gallons in the tank. I was pretty far below the E mark on the gauge, I should have stopped at a gas station. The truck was running fine, I filled it up the next day with Rec gas, 23 gallons. I don't normally run it down to Empty. Well when I did a warm/hot start it cranked MUCH longer than normal before finally slowly firing up. I am going to change my fuel filter, I might have picked up some garbage in the tank running it that low. Plus, I have never changed the fuel filter, so its due for sure.
Do you guys think I could have ruined my fuel pump by doing this? Cold starts are great, its the warm/hot start that started acting strange. I feel like one time should not have killed it, but I don't know how old that fuel pump is, the truck has 225,000 on it and I have owned it for 20 years. I think I got it with 180,000 on it. I hate self inflicted wounds.
Thanks for the help, I am looking forward to hanging out on this forum.
Ben