She died on the way to get dinner to go!

[offroadkid]

Driving to get our weekly Friday night Mexican food to go and the Patrol just lost power (thankfully on a slight grade in the shade. I rolled over to the side of the road, listened for the electric fuel pump, which I can hear and it cranks over and wants to start but just stumbles when trying to give it has, and it has a hard time idling then just quits.

AAA is in the way, I've sent word so the wife will be passing me and picking up dinner instead!

I will check fuel, spark, fuses when I get it back in the garage!

I'm in good spirits cause hey....I'm a Nissan Patrol owner!

[RiverPatrol]

Sounds like you may have run out of gas. Gas gauge is probably inaccurate. Minor. Happens to the best of us.

[offroadkid]

Sounds like you may have run out of gas. Gas gauge is probably inaccurate. Minor. Happens to the best of us.

Thanks for the reply!! You would think so, but on the way home from work I put $25 in the tank!!!

BTW...gas gauge still "no worky" that's the reason I stopped for fuel!!

[offroadkid]

Update...wife just passed me en route to the taqueria! That's all for now!

[faux40]

Update...wife just passed me en route to the taqueria! That's all for now!

I bet you're getting hungry... Ouch! I'm sorry to hear that you had to get triple-A involved. Enjoy dinner when it makes it to you (and thank your lovely wife for taking care of it!).

[Coyote Patrol]

I think your fuel filter is plugged up.

[offroadkid]

I think your fuel filter is plugged up.

I hope so, that would be an easy place to start. It does have the aftermarket inline plastic see through filter along the firewall. When I turn on the key I can hear the electric fuel pump ticking, but it doesn't look like the filter is filling up anymore that halfway, not sure if it's supposed to. I'm thinking tomorrow I will pull the line off the filter, turn on the fuel pump and see if I have any pressure/volume? I'm thinking just because the pump is making noise, it may not be pumping. I was warned by a friend at work that those pumps are not very reliable.

If that is the issue, I would really like to find some spacers and a gasket to install my factory fuel pump and also the correct glass filter.

After I got it home, I tinkered with it in the garage. I tried again to get it started and it tried a couple of times, but sputtered and then I noticed what looked like semi thick white vapor coming up from the carb area and oil bath. I just don't think it's getting fuel.

The good news is it's not my only source of transportation, I can just keep it in the garage and drive the Cruiser until I figure it out.

[Rolly]

Update...wife just passed me en route to the taqueria! That's all for now!

There's your problem, you should have sent her to get it in the first place while you sat back with a beer. The Patrol just quit to teach you a lesson.

I'll run away now before I get beaten.

[offroadkid]

Update...wife just passed me en route to the taqueria! That's all for now!

There's your problem, you should have sent her to get it in the first place while you sat back with a beer. The Patrol just quit to teach you a lesson.

I'll run away now before I get beaten.

Ha!! We both just read this and laughed!

[offroadkid]

I thought I may not have been getting fuel. I have an aftermarket fuel pump and was thinking even though I can hear it ticking, maybe it wasn't doing it's job. So this morning I disconnected the fuel hose to the aftermarket fuel filter and had my wife turn the key while I held the hose into a glass jar.

This test proved that I had fuel coming from the pump. I then placed the fuel filter back on the feed line and repeated the step to see if the filter was plugged, but fuel still came out.

So then I figured maybe I have no spark. So I looked at my coil and noticed that the coil wire to the distributor has been laying across a metal fuel line and it looks like maybe some arcing had occurred.

I removed the coil wire at the distributor and noticed the inside looked like it was missing, (unless this is the way it's supposed to be)?

So I had a spare coil wire, which I installed, cranked it over and it started right up. To verify it was the coil wire I put the old one back on, however still started up....?

I even laid the original coil wire back across the brake line and didn't fully screw tighten the coil wire into the distributor and it still started.

Maybe it was a plugged filter and I just dislodged something?

Look at these pics and share some knowledge with me please!