bigjake
Veteran Member
Hey guys,
so earlier today, my girlfriend and I were traveling to a nearby city to run some errands. As we started up Afton Mountain, I noticed my car was smoking. I needed to find a place to pull off, but Afton Mountain is a very dangerous stretch of highway with no shoulder. So I had to keep driving a few miles uphill until we got to a huge pull off. I turned off the car as soon as I pulled off and there was heavy smoke pouring out from under the hood at that point. It didn't smell like it was burning and I didn't feel abnormal amounts of heat, so I popped the hood. I noticed there had been a massive diesel leak on the right side of the engine. I traced the fuel lines from the fuel filter around the motor and everything looked good up until I got to the right side. AAA eventually took me and the car home, but I have yet to really look at it.
I've been poking around online and it looks like either a fuel line ruptured or the tandem pump catastrophically failed. The leak was so bad (it continued to leak fuel onto the rollback over an hour after it was shut off) that I feel like it was probably the tandem pump. But how was it that I was able to casually continue driving up hill with no loss of power until I shut the car off? Perhaps maybe it was a fuel line after all?
so earlier today, my girlfriend and I were traveling to a nearby city to run some errands. As we started up Afton Mountain, I noticed my car was smoking. I needed to find a place to pull off, but Afton Mountain is a very dangerous stretch of highway with no shoulder. So I had to keep driving a few miles uphill until we got to a huge pull off. I turned off the car as soon as I pulled off and there was heavy smoke pouring out from under the hood at that point. It didn't smell like it was burning and I didn't feel abnormal amounts of heat, so I popped the hood. I noticed there had been a massive diesel leak on the right side of the engine. I traced the fuel lines from the fuel filter around the motor and everything looked good up until I got to the right side. AAA eventually took me and the car home, but I have yet to really look at it.
I've been poking around online and it looks like either a fuel line ruptured or the tandem pump catastrophically failed. The leak was so bad (it continued to leak fuel onto the rollback over an hour after it was shut off) that I feel like it was probably the tandem pump. But how was it that I was able to casually continue driving up hill with no loss of power until I shut the car off? Perhaps maybe it was a fuel line after all?