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The truck is the No 2 in my signature... 96 4x4 manual transmission.
The truck had been running fine this morning and I returned to the house. I went to start it again and it started up and I heard what sounded like a loud carpet vacuum cleaner running under the hood in addition to the sound of the engine.
I sat for 10 seconds trying to figure out what was going on and then tried turning the key off. I turned the key off but the engine continued to run with the same sound continuing from under the hood. I switched the key back on (without turning the key all the way to activate the starter). About 20 seconds later the 'vacuum cleaner' noise stopped and all I heard was the normal engine noise. I turned the key off and the engine shut off.
I sat there puzzling over this for a minute or two and then tried starting the engine again. It started normally and ran fine. I went out and drove it on a few errands. The engine stopped and started fine without problems.
Any ideas???
The truck had been running fine this morning and I returned to the house. I went to start it again and it started up and I heard what sounded like a loud carpet vacuum cleaner running under the hood in addition to the sound of the engine.
I sat for 10 seconds trying to figure out what was going on and then tried turning the key off. I turned the key off but the engine continued to run with the same sound continuing from under the hood. I switched the key back on (without turning the key all the way to activate the starter). About 20 seconds later the 'vacuum cleaner' noise stopped and all I heard was the normal engine noise. I turned the key off and the engine shut off.
I sat there puzzling over this for a minute or two and then tried starting the engine again. It started normally and ran fine. I went out and drove it on a few errands. The engine stopped and started fine without problems.
Any ideas???
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cud be a bad starter or even a sticky starter relay. you wud need to duplicate the problem again and pull the relay to if that changed anything. if it quit when u pulled the relay good bet its the relay if not then definitely ur starter
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