Questionyes, i am getting ready to buy a m1009 in a few days from someone in my local town. they have not drove it much since they bought it. they purchased at a base in texas somewhere and drove it all the way back to missouri. after about a year of driving it about 10 miles a week or less they went out to start it and it would run for a second then die. it still does it and they havent fixed it. do you have in suggestions. thank you for your help.
AnswerI have had that problem before.
If it will then start after a couple minutes of cranking, or bleeding the fuel filter, what I found was the filter base itself.
There is a sensor in the middle of the filter base. It is held in by a large, star washer looking thing, about an inch and a half in diameter.
The plastic sensor, when removed, has a skinny "O"ring on it. That o ring dries up, and gets cracks in it, and lets the fuel bleed back out of the filter to the tank, and gets air in the filter.
The engine starts on the fuel in the injector pump, and then the air hits, and it runs out of fuel, till it is bled out.
May not be your problem, but I had several trucks do it.
I removed that sensor, cleaned up the housing, and filled the hole with JB weld, and works great.
Van
