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Mar 6, 2011 - 14 posts - 8 authors
Trying to help out a friend. ... The truck starts, runs, and drives fine until you get to a hill. When going up hill it begins to surge, almost stalling but not quite. ... rubber fuel lines suck shut under a heavy load and act like that. .... tranny fluid level o.k.? ya got me stumped. runs great when it's on a flat surface?
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Will not take gas going up a hill but will maintain speed at 55 mph. ... Want to do a diagnostic test on my 1997 F250 with 460 engine. ... only get to about 40 miles an hour if i push it the engine acts like its running out of gas,thank you .... The truck hesitates on acceleration, while driving on flat surface is fine, however climbing ...
This is not much of an answer, but I would take it in and get the fuel pressure checked. The pump may be dying. If it was the filter it would be constant, not this up and down situation.
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