wierd black smoke, bad smell, and gas accerlation prob

Hey everyone, new to the thread and I'm hoping someone out there can give me some advise to whats ailing my truck.


I have a 1991, Ford ranger and For the past couple of months, when ever i get into my car to start it up. I usually had to crank it for a while before it finally started, or if i crank it for a bit then turned the ignition off and recranked right afterword, it usally imeddieatly started right back up and ran without any problem. Many times, though, when i started it, it would die right after the crank but started and stayed on the next repeated crank, with no problem starting back up again as long as vehicle didn't stay off for a while.


Not any problem from starter, just seems like it's having a hard time getting the gas at first. Well, I think the minor problem turned big today due to my lack of effort in getting problem fixed(thinking it wasn't anything really to begin with because the truck is 16 years old).


I went to drive to get some lunch but when trying to start the truck, it just wasn't starting. Many times it sounded like it was juuuuust about to but couldn't do, like it was getting gas but barely. Well, finally it started but problems began to arese. First the exuast was venting black smoke, and the truck kept trying to die, thats if i let off the accelerator. It was trying so hard to get gas and it felt like it kept trying to die. I manged to make it home, as long as i didn't go to slow and let off the gas it wouldn't die, but when i would slow down I had to make sure i occasionly kept pushing the gas down. You should have seen my needle on my battery thinging on my controle panel, it would sway left as if it wanted to die ,when i let off gas, then swayed back to the right when i started to accelerate.


The whole way home it was sputtering(not sure if thats the best word), shaking and i was smelling bad odoor. As long as i didn't let off the gas peddle it wouldn't die.I would make it to speeds of 60 mph and it was still going. The faster i went, I think the better it ran as i mentioned about the slowing down part.


I pray anyone out there would have mercy on me and help this neglecting fool out, pleeeeas. I'm off work tomorrow so I'll get to hopefully work on it to get it fixed.

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