Paul Johnson wrote:
Steveo wrote:
(Timothy Midkiff) wrote:
The truck has a 2.3L with no p/s or ac. I don't think it's coming from
the ignition due to no change in the noise during acceleration. When the
ignition is turned to the on position you can here the electric fuel
pump come on and quite. I am quite shure of the pump being my problem.
My question is this. If I just replace the fuel pump would the new one
be quiet you think? I'm guessing that the fuel pump is originally the
one that came with the truck.
IIRC Ford has had that problem almost forever since the advent of the
electric in-tank fuel-pump.
I'm kind of leaning towards bad ground. Run the CB's negative to something
well-grounded like a bolt on the frame if possible. Did that with a 2001
Ford Ranger my roommate used to have and it got rid of the noise.
And connect the chassis to the frame to the battery...
Those ground straps and their connections go bad!
Another possibility if the truck turns out to have poor grounding in general
(such as my mid-90's Kia Sportage) is go with the best ground you can
reasonably get to and use something like the Ranger RCI 2950 and run it
with ANL/NB turned on and get good at reflexively adjusting the RF gain.
Any sideband radio has better filters then an AM only radio.