She refused to start last night. In all fairness, she gave me plenty of warning... Wouldn't catch second click, start then stall, etc. for the last day or so, but I ignored it. Just to teach me a lesson, she took me 40 miles away at ~midnight and (I think?) the fuel pump gave up. 160.00 worth of towing and she's out front, waiting for the weekend until I can crawl into her innards.
I don't think it's spark because the few times in the past when the fire went out, I could smell gas when I cranked it. Usually, spinning the fuses in the fusebox would make it lite. No gas smell this time. Will check it just to be sure though.
When I got in it to go last night, I hit the starter once as usual, hit it again and it caught, then sputtered and died. Subsequent attempts resulted in sputtering but no catching. Finally, not even a sputter... Checked and wiggled the fuses, then called the hook. No sense in grinding down the battery when I know it isn't gonna go.
8 years of 100% reliability so who's complaining? (well, there was that one time the headlight switch fell apart causing me to have to drive home on the high beam switch...)I know it's been covered here before (but I didn't take very good notes) so after I change out the fuel filter (6 years old) and checking spark, what to look at next before I drop the tank?
'83 245. ~250K