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[Larzz012]

My truck's fuel gauge has been on the fritz since i first got it. No big deal. There's 44 miles on the gas that is in there and at 15 miles per gallon, I have at least 12 gallons in there. So there is fuel.

The problem occurred tonight when I was at the fire station, I had it parked and when I tried to start it, it started as if it was trying to turn over. The lights worked, the belt spun, the electric fan spun, but nothing. I'm not 100% sure if this is a Fuel Pump issue. Truck is a 2001 GMC Zr2 Sonoma. 144K miles on it, and I am 2 days away from bringing it in for an oil change (dumb truck). Any thoughts?

Also, there was no smell of gas as so I was not flooding it even though it should have been, which is making me and my dad think its the fuel pump.

Help would be appreciated

Edit: Also, it ran fine all day today and has never had this problem before.

Edited by Larzz012, 03 August 2012 - 10:29 PM.

[jwwaldschmidt]

Drop some gas down the intake, or a quick squirt of starting fluid. Confirm it's not a spark issue first.

[N2O_ZR2]

Do a fuel pressure test, it's probably your pump.

[Larzz012]

Weird thing was that this morning, It started up right away. And drove perfectly normal. So I'm assuming this is the beginning of the fuel pump going on it though.