**I'm 10 hours from home. Help me diagnose this!!!**

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dropmech

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I wouldn't be too concerned that the idling caused it. I'm up in Massachusetts and during the winter, I DAILY left the hoe running for a good 20 minutes in the morning to warm it up before I left for work. Nothing like you're describing has ever happened to me. I wonder if maybe you just tricked your computer with your throttle inputs during the semi truck scenario and it dumped a bunch of fuel into the engine in anticipation of needing it and you simply flooded it. May have fowled some plugs temporarily.
 
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That's seems logical and a good reason why it would happened. Thanks for your input dropmech.

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Sounds like the crap my OBS was pulling when the MAF was intermittently going wacky....

(This is by no means a diagnosis, just very similar symptoms)
 
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I got home a while ago. The motor turned off 3 times when I had increase acceleration when going up hills and the motor would stop and shut off. I tried to turn it a couple times till about the 10 time it will turn on. WOT is a joke now as it hesitates. I have not change the fuel filter since I bought it Oct 2011. So I'm trying to figure it out but now I see it has a Ford Fuel filter of that makes any sense. The first pic is the one from autozone. The second is what's on there. I do not know how to take it out. Special tool?? I'm hoping it's the filter and not the pump.

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Do the same issues occur if you leave it in park or neutral and go WOT? If they do then do a fuel pressure test and see if the pressures drop. If it only happens under a real load then most kits have hoses long enough to run them out the hood and up against the window. Go WOT and see i the pressure drops. Not the safest method but it works and will verify fuel pressure is the cause.
 

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