So I have a Ford E350 460/7.5 based Jamboree F26 that's barely running. A few months back I replaced both batteries, the pump under the driver's side, and the fuel pressure regulator. After that I got her started, idled for about 20 minutes, then shut off. But she started up again. Took it around the neighborhood for about about as long to get a feel for driving something that big and then put it back where I'd been keeping it since I bought it almost a year and a half before. I turned it over a few times in the months since but didn't run it long or take it anywhere.
Last week I had to leave where I was and it's been nothing but stalling. Bogs down, shudders, sounds like someone's beating on the inside of the doghouse by the accelerator, stalls. Let it sit for a while, turns back over, rev it some, and sometimes at high RPM it goes and holds on but it's not but maybe three or four blocks before it stalls again (not always with the puttering doghouse-knocking). I can maybe stave off the stall for a bit by fluttering the pedal, but there's barely any power to it. Bucks a little like it wants to run but it just can't catch. After, it smells rich.
It took me almost 5 hours to limp it to an auto parts store almost 3 miles away where they tested the batteries I'd just put in a few months back to say one was dead and the other almost-so. They replaced one and charged the other. It starts up easier and sooner, but still does the same stalling routine.
I've looked around forums for the last few days but can't seem to find anything that seems to quite fit the bill.
Unfortunately right now, I'm kind of in a transitional bind, so I can't afford for it not to be running (or, at least, not stalling out every few blocks). Nor can I afford to throw money at a mechanic, so it's a beginner's wrench-it-myself thing.
Any suggestions for what this might be would be greatly appreciated.
Last week I had to leave where I was and it's been nothing but stalling. Bogs down, shudders, sounds like someone's beating on the inside of the doghouse by the accelerator, stalls. Let it sit for a while, turns back over, rev it some, and sometimes at high RPM it goes and holds on but it's not but maybe three or four blocks before it stalls again (not always with the puttering doghouse-knocking). I can maybe stave off the stall for a bit by fluttering the pedal, but there's barely any power to it. Bucks a little like it wants to run but it just can't catch. After, it smells rich.
It took me almost 5 hours to limp it to an auto parts store almost 3 miles away where they tested the batteries I'd just put in a few months back to say one was dead and the other almost-so. They replaced one and charged the other. It starts up easier and sooner, but still does the same stalling routine.
I've looked around forums for the last few days but can't seem to find anything that seems to quite fit the bill.
Unfortunately right now, I'm kind of in a transitional bind, so I can't afford for it not to be running (or, at least, not stalling out every few blocks). Nor can I afford to throw money at a mechanic, so it's a beginner's wrench-it-myself thing.
Any suggestions for what this might be would be greatly appreciated.
