{"id":31569,"date":"2016-05-04T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=31569"},"modified":"2016-05-04T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:09:24","slug":"1997-ford-f-150-4-6-liter-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/05\/1997-ford-f-150-4-6-liter-motor","title":{"rendered":"1997 Ford F-150 with a 4.6 liter motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32552\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1997-ford-f150.jpg\" alt=\"1997 Ford F150\" width=\"568\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1997-ford-f150.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1997-ford-f150-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/>The truck quit today. I left it and came back later and it cranked up. I can hear the fuel pump coming on. I drove a little ways and then stopped and replaced the fuel filter. After that when I drove off and came to a stop the truck would die. Then I put it in park and crank it back up and go. Then one time it died and wouldn&#8217;t start back. Once again after setting for a few hours it started right back up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>First thing to do is to determine what it is not getting when it won&#8217;t start.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spark<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/fuel.html\">Fuel<\/a> &#8211; Fuel pressure and or injector pulse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ignition control module, <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/ckp-crank-position-sensor.html\">crankshaft position sensor<\/a> if no spark.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel pump, fuel pump relay if no fuel<\/p>\n<p>crankshaft position sensor, PCM if no fuel injector pulse<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/nostart.html\">No Start Diagnostics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truck quit today. I left it and came back later and it cranked up. I can hear the fuel pump coming on. I drove a little ways and then stopped and replaced the fuel filter. After that when I drove off and came to a stop the truck would die. Then I put it&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/05\/1997-ford-f-150-4-6-liter-motor\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1997 Ford F-150 with a 4.6 liter motor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-31569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ford","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-ford-f-150"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}