CTread08
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2016
- Posts
- 16
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Nicholasville, KY
- First Name
- Corey
- Truck Year
- 1987
- Truck Model
- V10
- Engine Size
- 350
Hi guys! I'm new to the forum and the community, and mechanic-ing in general (I'm 25 and didn't have a mechanical type Dad). I just bought an '87 V10 as my first truck to work on, that the PO swapped a 350 into, and left two bearings out of a tranny rebuild "so it would shift hard" but all it does is shift hard into reverse. It hadn't really ran in years so I'm trying to go through everything now. Recently, the truck has been stalling out when put into gear with any load on it (trying to R up hill or trying to D up hill). If I shift the transfer case into N or 4L, it won't die, so I tried crawling up a hill in 4L, then shifting back into 2L and driving back down the hill. All is fine until I come to a stop sign, then the poor idle returns and it dies. When it is my turn to proceed through the intersection, it creeps, missing and sputtering, and if I give it any fuel it dies. Sometimes I can accelerate just right to bring it out of the rough idle, and it won't die. I sat in an Autozone parking lot, hoping to get the codes read but they don't have a reader that goes back that far. So I put it in R and it died, as there was a slight downgrade on the lot so there was a load on the truck. After restarting and dying about 20 times I put it in 4L and was able to get to a flat surface, yet it didn't stay running in D in 2L until I was going downhill. Upon those restarts there were some odd sounds coming from the truck, like a fan/blower/vaccum machine type sound. I know very little about these trucks, but from searching through the internet, I gather it may be a Torque Converter issue? I have replaced the fuel filter and that is it. I know I need to change oil/filter, plugs/wires, maybe trans fluid, and maybe rear end fluid. Any other suggestions or help is greatly appreciated!
