AaronW
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- Joined
- Mar 24, 2021
- Posts
- 233
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- Location
- MT
- First Name
- Aaron
- Truck Year
- 89
- Truck Model
- V3500
- Engine Size
- 454
I've listed this as an electrical problem, since that seems likely.
So my 89 V3500 just had a complete rebuild. A machinist I know completely went through the engine, we deleted the tbi, went back to a 4bbl card, hei distrobutor, new cam, pretty much the works. I've put probably less than 1000 miles on it since the rebuild. I've starting having this problem where when it gets warm, it dies, and if you let it sit for maybe 20 minutes it will start again. When it dies, I've got my dome light, but no dash lights, and it's completely dead, won't turn over, nothing. It's got a brand new start in it. What's frustrating, is that I let it run in my driveway for like an hour the other day, and couldn't get it to die; had it done so, I was going to check continuity from the starter up to where the wire goes into that plug on the engine side of the firewall. There's a little junction point mounted to the bulkhead, that had fusible link coming out of it. I looked that over, and everything seems ok there.
When we did the rebuild, we didn't replace anything in the column. Is there any way this could be the ignition switch down at the botton of the column, or the module where the key goes in? I'm in over my head here, and I'm gonna run out of $$ pretty quick, if I've got to tell a mechanic "go figure it out."
Ideas?
Aaron
So my 89 V3500 just had a complete rebuild. A machinist I know completely went through the engine, we deleted the tbi, went back to a 4bbl card, hei distrobutor, new cam, pretty much the works. I've put probably less than 1000 miles on it since the rebuild. I've starting having this problem where when it gets warm, it dies, and if you let it sit for maybe 20 minutes it will start again. When it dies, I've got my dome light, but no dash lights, and it's completely dead, won't turn over, nothing. It's got a brand new start in it. What's frustrating, is that I let it run in my driveway for like an hour the other day, and couldn't get it to die; had it done so, I was going to check continuity from the starter up to where the wire goes into that plug on the engine side of the firewall. There's a little junction point mounted to the bulkhead, that had fusible link coming out of it. I looked that over, and everything seems ok there.
When we did the rebuild, we didn't replace anything in the column. Is there any way this could be the ignition switch down at the botton of the column, or the module where the key goes in? I'm in over my head here, and I'm gonna run out of $$ pretty quick, if I've got to tell a mechanic "go figure it out."
Ideas?
Aaron