460 Ford engine stalls when put in gear
Hi all y’all, Wouldn’t you know it, I’m ready to start out on a 900 mile journey and my previously good running 1994 Ford 460 V8 engine decides to act up. Here’s what I know: When I purchased the ...
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Hi all y'all,
Please no one be offended by my remarks, I'm simply brain-storming here looking for a solution. I was hoping that the symptoms I had might point to some classic and common (ie: easy to diagnose) failure.
No smoke when I start it up, and yes I do know what to look for. Years ago I had a 1991 Caravan with a cracked head, drove it like that for a month before I replaced the engine. Every time I'd fire it up I'd get a huge cloud of white smoke that'd dissipate almost instantly (and smelled like anti-freeze).
It might be a vacuum leak, I rerouted some lines and wires that were lying across the tube for the EGR valve and were melting onto the hot tube. Still I wonder about that rich-mixture odor I noticed while it was running. To me it sort of contradicts a vacuum leak.
It has a new inline fuel filter.
I've been wondering about having bad gas. It had about 50 gallons in it when I purchased it from the dealer and no telling when that gas had been put in. Now that it's sat for 7 months, what may have been marginally good gas is now bad gas. I'll try adding a few bottles of SeaFoam.
Thanks for the suggestions and comments, I appreciate it. Right now I'm just a little spooked, sort of a bad omen type of thing (knock on wood! LOL).
Steve
Please no one be offended by my remarks, I'm simply brain-storming here looking for a solution. I was hoping that the symptoms I had might point to some classic and common (ie: easy to diagnose) failure.
No smoke when I start it up, and yes I do know what to look for. Years ago I had a 1991 Caravan with a cracked head, drove it like that for a month before I replaced the engine. Every time I'd fire it up I'd get a huge cloud of white smoke that'd dissipate almost instantly (and smelled like anti-freeze).
It might be a vacuum leak, I rerouted some lines and wires that were lying across the tube for the EGR valve and were melting onto the hot tube. Still I wonder about that rich-mixture odor I noticed while it was running. To me it sort of contradicts a vacuum leak.
It has a new inline fuel filter.
I've been wondering about having bad gas. It had about 50 gallons in it when I purchased it from the dealer and no telling when that gas had been put in. Now that it's sat for 7 months, what may have been marginally good gas is now bad gas. I'll try adding a few bottles of SeaFoam.
Thanks for the suggestions and comments, I appreciate it. Right now I'm just a little spooked, sort of a bad omen type of thing (knock on wood! LOL).
Steve
