So I bought this truck in May of 2022 and have had little to no issues with it. I keep it well maintained and get it in for a service every 250 truck hours.
During my first and second winter with the truck on a few occasions I encountered a fuel blockage problem.
Essentially, I would start the truck and let it idle to warm up. After a few minutes the motor would start to starve for fuel and stall out. I am not very mechanically inclined, but I eventually discovered that the fuel filter was being drained, or rather something was blocking fuel from getting to the fuel filter.
I would fill up the fuel filter, re-start the truck and it would run fine for a week or two and then I would encounter the problem again. It was very intermittent and 95% of the time it only did this during a cold start. But there was once or twice where it also did it while driving down the highway.
Fast forward to this past week. No less then 8 times I had to re-prime the fuel filter in a 5 hour window. It was extremely frustrating. I made sure to use fuel conditioner this past week because we got hit with an early blast of winter hitting lows of -28 degrees Celsius (or -17 F).
The fuel filter is new, as I just had a service done 2 weeks ago.
Has anyone ever encountered this problem and can advise me on what I should or could do to eliminate this issue?
Thank you in advance for your time
During my first and second winter with the truck on a few occasions I encountered a fuel blockage problem.
Essentially, I would start the truck and let it idle to warm up. After a few minutes the motor would start to starve for fuel and stall out. I am not very mechanically inclined, but I eventually discovered that the fuel filter was being drained, or rather something was blocking fuel from getting to the fuel filter.
I would fill up the fuel filter, re-start the truck and it would run fine for a week or two and then I would encounter the problem again. It was very intermittent and 95% of the time it only did this during a cold start. But there was once or twice where it also did it while driving down the highway.
Fast forward to this past week. No less then 8 times I had to re-prime the fuel filter in a 5 hour window. It was extremely frustrating. I made sure to use fuel conditioner this past week because we got hit with an early blast of winter hitting lows of -28 degrees Celsius (or -17 F).
The fuel filter is new, as I just had a service done 2 weeks ago.
Has anyone ever encountered this problem and can advise me on what I should or could do to eliminate this issue?
Thank you in advance for your time
