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Old 07-10-2011, 12:19 PM
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idles rough and has no power

i have a 97 7.3 and it is idling rough and has no power i have replaced the cps and the fuel filter two days ago and it ran fine after that then i started it today and it started to run rough again. any ideas?
 
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Old 07-10-2011, 02:12 PM
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Injector Driver Module (IDM) maybe? I don't know nearly as much about 7.3's as most of the people on this forum, but those were the symptoms mine had when my IDM went out.
 
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Old 07-10-2011, 02:38 PM
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What is your fuel pressure? Is it a miss or just rough running? How bad was your old fuel filter? Did you clean the little screen in the fuel bowl while in there?
 
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Old 07-10-2011, 03:13 PM
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Check the valve cover electrical connections for burnt (smell) or melted (visual) condition. There are two per cover and one is shown below ...

 
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we took the valve cover off on the driver side and the plug on the inside of the gasket was burnt so we are replacing that
 
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