The other day I was driving my slant powered D100 down the road and it just died without a stumble or sputter. I just went to hit the gas and had nothing. Truck was unable to stay running when I restarted it unless I hold my foot on the gas and rev. My truck had been running amazing the last while thanks too all the info I got from this site and a couple of the books suggested. I figured it might be fuel related so I pulled the fuel filter, there was some teflon tape (why I don't use the stuff) in the filer, I pulled it out and blew through the filter and it was clear, but truck still would not run. The fuel line did seem to have pressure in it. Carb is a fresh rebuilt 1945 with a new brass float, timing set to 8 degrees on idle, valves adjusted to truck specs, and had been running amazing. New plugs and wires, cap and rotor too. Any idea what could cause it to just die and not want to run like this? It was coasting with light throttle when it quit. I have time in a few days to tinker so figured I would get some tips before I go out , thanks everyone

Teflon tape doesnt sound like a coinsidence, i reckon pull the fuel pipe to the carb and crank the engine see how much flow there is. I suspect a blockage or restriction somrwhere in the fuel system.

Or a carb issue: when reving the engine to keep it going was it reving in the same manner as it did before the problem ?

Is it flooding? Sounds like a piece of trash may have jammed the needle and seat in the carb.

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02 Dakota-3.9/5 speed
87 GMC C7000-8.2 Detroit Diesel/5+2

possibility of broken resister or bad electrical connection ?

Richard

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Had this happen to me once.

Was it a rough road?

In my case, driving over a very rough road caused crap in the gas tank to enter the carb (as well as crap in the fuel bowl to get shaken up, I suppose).

Symptom: Slant would not idle, would not drive down the road, unless I held the pedal to the floor. Almost impossible to get it into gear without stalling.

Solution: Remove carb, clean fuel bowl (fine grit in bottom), wash out all jets and passages, and reassembled. Replaced fuel filter.

Note: Had a standard inline fuel filter at the time... but still the stuff got into the carb.

That solved it for me.

- Mac

i think i had pretty much the exact same thing happen, but it must have been crap in the lines because i just had my tank off to patch a leak and flushed and cleaned the tank good. i replaced the fuel filter and it got it running again. i am going to pop open the carb and clean it out too. The fuel filter had about 3 hours run time on it and the carb was just ultra-sonic cleaned about the same time. I cut the fuel filter in half with a hack saw just to see the filter part, it looked ok but had some green stuff in parts of the element so who knows where or what it was lol, just thought i should responde back to give a update, thanks for the tips!