I had blown a tire, while already on the spare (three tires blew out in three weeks, lucky me), and…read moreI was stranded next to their gas station in the parking lot of the main store in Cape Coral. While I was there fixing my truck, a man approached me and offered to fill my gas tank up with his membership card. I forget the guys name now, and he took the fuel receipt from the fill up for his records. I cannot prove that fuel was purchased there without that receipt, but I was there sometime around the 7th of July.. If I remember correctly, there was a tanker unloading, or a tanker had just unloaded right before my tank was filled. I thanked the man for the assistance and he went on his way. I finished up getting my new tire mounted on my rim and went along my way to my next destination. I made it about two miles up the road and my truck quit running. I had stopped at another gas station to get some stuff from inside and when I came back out to leave, I could not get my truck to start for the life of me. It was trying to start with a can of ether spray, but it wouldn't stay running. I changed my fuel filter out there at the gas pump with the permission of the station boss at the place about two miles up the road, and of course it started raining sideways like a hurricane as soon as I disconnected the fuel lines from the filter, so I have Noah's flood of water running into the back of my shirt, while gasoline was pouring down my arms into the sleeves of my shirt simultaneously. But I laid there in the floodwater and changed out my filter. I got it running again for a few days, but then the issues started again and I have had nothing but problems getting my truck to start every day since the day that it was filled up. Right now, unless I can find this guy that helped me fill my tank, it's my word against theirs it seems. Tonight, I am stranded on the side of the road again after my truck died out at a major intersection. I had to solo push my vehicle again for the second time this week from the same intersection, back down the turn lanes to push it off of the road before morning traffic hit. i am now stranded in a parking lot that has no shade, waiting for morning in order to try to figure out why my always starts truck now is a barely starts truck for the last five weeks or so. I suspect sediment laden fuel from the pump. Like I said, I had no problems getting it to start prior to my visit to BJ's. How to prove it? I must be the unluckiest person alive? Three blown tires, my very old dog dies, my truck breaks down every other day just about... I can't believe my luck, sitting out here on the side of a main road trying to start my truck again. Not sure how I am going to get up the road now. I wouldn't fill up there again.
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Took the fuel filter off and changed it out again today, filter was full of water and tons of black sediment. I'm going to try to dry the fuel, but it looks like there's a good chance that I will have to drop the tank and drain it possibly after a full day of trying to get this truck fixed on the side of the road.
