HELP! Fuel line nut rusted, can't remove fuel filter

[watkins]

Woot!

[wannabe]

congrats!

[theholycow]

Update: Engine failed with classic symptoms of head gasket - running rough, misfiring, white smoke. I limped it to the mechanic's garage, which was 5 miles away from where I was instead of trying to baby it 30 miles to my house. I spent the past few weeks walking the floor like Ernest Tubb.

However, there is good news. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My truck is fixed and it's under $100. My wife took the message, something about fuel lines and/or wiring being crossed, and sludge from bad gas. I don't believe that I could have crossed anything up, but I'll wait to hear what it was.

[Rope-Pusher]

Update: Engine failed with classic symptoms of head gasket - running rough, misfiring, white smoke. I limped it to the mechanic's garage, which was 5 miles away from where I was instead of trying to baby it 30 miles to my house. I spent the past few weeks walking the floor like Ernest Tubb.

However, there is good news. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My truck is fixed and it's under $100. My wife took the message, something about fuel lines and/or wiring being crossed, and sludge from bad gas. I don't believe that I could have crossed anything up, but I'll wait to hear what it was.

What are you up to now, 26 gallons of bad gas from a 24 gallon tank? That thing's makin' bad gas! Keep it like it is, but find a market for bad gas you you'll have a going bidnest.

[theholycow]

What are you up to now, 26 gallons of bad gas from a 24 gallon tank? That thing's makin' bad gas! Keep it like it is, but find a market for bad gas you you'll have a going bidnest.

It turned out to be a fuel injector stuck open dumping fuel. There was no new bad gas, my wife misunderstood about gas getting past the rings into the oil and contaminating it.

The injector was misbehaving because of faulty wiring that resulted from a modification I did a couple years ago and abandoned in place rather than removing.

However, I did get at LEAST 26 gallons of gas out of that tank back when I had the bad gas. I don't know why, but it holds a lot more gas than the fuel pump can reach. If someone made a fuel pump with an extended pickup I'd probably have a 28 gallon tank.