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<p>And maybe the plug wiring connections.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/21/2018 12:29 PM, RONALD GRIFFING
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I would check the distributor cap first.<br>
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eric@megageek.com">eric@megageek.com</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Shop-talk@autox.team.net">Shop-talk@autox.team.net</a><br>
Sent: 2018-11-21 11:57:12 AM <br>
Subject: [Shop-talk] Tricky problem with a GMC 3500<br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">1998 GMC 3500 mason dump. LOW
miles
( 87K) Gas engine</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">When it runs, it is flawless.
Great
idle, lots of power, no issues. Kept in heated garage. Always
on a battery tender.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">About 6 months ago (maybe longer
as
this truck is rarely used.) when I would first start it, it
would
idle way too low and stall. I few minutes of warm-up, and it
was
fine.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Then, this past month, I had to
move
it to one of my out buildings for about 3 weeks. The building
has
lots of moisture (it will NOT stop raining and now snowing
here.)</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I went to start it up and it
wouldn't
start. Engine turned over fine, sounded normal, but it wouldn't
start.
After I tried a few times, the engine would 'diesel' when I
stopped cranking. </font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I tried some starter fluid and it
didn't
change anything (so I thought no spark.) Battery was on a
'boost
starter' plugged in the wall. Gas smell coming out of tailpipe.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Checked spark, all good. Under
the hood seemed dry (there was no condensation or anything) but
the building
had a wet floor.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">After some wrangling with a
tractor,
fork-lift, and a few new vocabulary words, I got it onto the
main
garage where I let it sit over night with the hood up.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">So I tried it today and it
started right
up. So this is clearly an issue with the moisture. My question
is, where do I start to troubleshoot? I can't predict it being
moist
in the other garage (and when it's there, it's away from all my
tools etc.)</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">ODBC tool has no codes.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Any ideas on how to fix this?
I'd
hate to be stuck on the side of the road because of rain or
something.
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Thanks!</font>
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Tech Viper<br>
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a
rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory."
Ralph
Waldo Emerson </font><br>
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