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My dodge ram diesel cut off while driving down the road and won't start back up. Where should I begin looking for trouble?
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∙ 15y ago
Without doubt something has interrupted your fuel flow to the injectors. Don't be insulted. The fuel system consists of Fuel Tank (empty?), Fuel Guage Dashboard Indicator (Not functioning or miscalibrated?) Fuel Lift Pump (Low Pressure Output?), Fuel lines (clogged?), Fuel Filter (Extremely dirty?), Fuel filter housing (leaking?) Fuel filter water detector (Not functioning and therefore not notifying that your fuel filter is getting ready to send water toward your injectors?) Injector Pump (not sending high pressure fuel to the injectors) and finally, Injectors (clogged?) I have experienced the exact problem. My Fuel Guage does not indicate correctly (The fuel tank holds 35 gal. When I have 5 gallons remaining, the tells me that I have .4 of my fuel left.) Thus, I was driving down the highway and ran out of fuel when the fuel guage said I had 1/3 of a tank left. Other times it has failed to start after changing the fuel filter and after draining water from the fuel filter water drain. Each of those times the not starting was attributeable to a lack of fuel being delivered to the injectors, and was cured by bleeding the air from the high pressure injector fuel lines. (It is only necessary to slightly open one of the injector lines on the head until fuel begins spurting out.) Unfortunately you can't operate the key AND see the top of the engine at the same time.
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