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I picked up my truck over the weekend....03, F250 x-cab 4x4, sonic blue.....Damn pretty truck. Ran Great Sunday.....Monday is a different story.......spit and sputtered @ 60mph....check engine light comes on....black smoke out the rear. Pulled into the dealer and there she sits waiting until today. Total miles on the truck...150. I just found this site so I'm not sure of the engine build date......
Hope all ends well
Hope all ends well
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Sorry to hear of your troubles. I know how you feel. I just talked with the dealer in Arkansas that fixed mine to ask if they had performed the 03B05 and 03B06 recalls. He informed me that they had not performed these specific recall's due to customer complaints. According to him they have performed a number of these updates and have not had one satisfied customer. He recommended that I wait until Ford has them sorted out before I proceed with mine. Hope everything works out.
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Picked up my truck yesterday morning from the dealer. They said the problem was caused by debris in the turbo. They corrected the problem and ran the truck monitoring for about 50 miles with no other problems. Great news. So far I have about 500 miles, I'll keep updating.....
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I sold my 1997 F-150, 4.6 liter with 63,000 carefree miles and purchased a F-250, 6.0 L, 4x4, CC Lariat so that I could pull a larger boat (haven't bought yet). Picked up the truck at the end of May, truck was built in Feb., have 1,200 miles on it, and it has been in the shop once. After the first 500 a problem surfaced. Rough idle and smoke coming from the tailpipe after restarting a warm engine. The mpg also dropped. Took the truck to the dealership, they did a reprogram, and the problem is still there and the performance seems to be worse. I'm pissed. I'm a retired design engineer and this is bull. Engineering does life testing, field testing, performance testing, and on and on and on. To let a product out into the market place with these problems is corporate greed, period. I spent over $40,000 for this truck and expect quality.
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Originally posted by USA255
Sorry to hear of your troubles. I know how you feel. I just talked with the dealer in Arkansas that fixed mine to ask if they had performed the 03B05 and 03B06 recalls. He informed me that they had not performed these specific recall's due to customer complaints. According to him they have performed a number of these updates and have not had one satisfied customer. He recommended that I wait until Ford has them sorted out before I proceed with mine. Hope everything works out.
Sorry to hear of your troubles. I know how you feel. I just talked with the dealer in Arkansas that fixed mine to ask if they had performed the 03B05 and 03B06 recalls. He informed me that they had not performed these specific recall's due to customer complaints. According to him they have performed a number of these updates and have not had one satisfied customer. He recommended that I wait until Ford has them sorted out before I proceed with mine. Hope everything works out.
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Thanks for the information. After posing this information to the dealer I purchased my truck from they recommended that as my truck was running good not to mess with it. Do you all agree? Guess they are going with the old "if its not broke don't fix it" mentality. Guess I am of the impression that it is broke, it just does'nt know it yet. Any thoughts? Do I have them perform both 03B05 and 03B06 or just 03B05 (replacement of the ICP sensor).
Thanks for all the advise and help. By the way my truck has 4020 miles on it. F250 4x4 crew cab.
Thanks for all the advise and help. By the way my truck has 4020 miles on it. F250 4x4 crew cab.
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Originally posted by The Diesel Dude
Diesel can't seep into the crankcase -- there is no diesel in the ICP. You are correct, however, about changing the ICP if it the earlier type.
Diesel can't seep into the crankcase -- there is no diesel in the ICP. You are correct, however, about changing the ICP if it the earlier type.
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Originally posted by USA255
Thanks for the information. After posing this information to the dealer I purchased my truck from they recommended that as my truck was running good not to mess with it. Do you all agree? Guess they are going with the old "if its not broke don't fix it" mentality. Guess I am of the impression that it is broke, it just does'nt know it yet. Any thoughts? Do I have them perform both 03B05 and 03B06 or just 03B05 (replacement of the ICP sensor).
Thanks for all the advise and help. By the way my truck has 4020 miles on it. F250 4x4 crew cab.
Thanks for the information. After posing this information to the dealer I purchased my truck from they recommended that as my truck was running good not to mess with it. Do you all agree? Guess they are going with the old "if its not broke don't fix it" mentality. Guess I am of the impression that it is broke, it just does'nt know it yet. Any thoughts? Do I have them perform both 03B05 and 03B06 or just 03B05 (replacement of the ICP sensor).
Thanks for all the advise and help. By the way my truck has 4020 miles on it. F250 4x4 crew cab.
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In the latest issue of "Truck Trends" mag., there was an article about Ford's 6.0 PSD problems being caused by a bad pressure sensor. It sounds like the same problems I've heard from you guys! Might check it out, it is the first time I've actually heard them say they had identified the problem! Good luck.
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Originally posted by Leader of the Pack
I suppose I was getting ahead of myself. Doesn't that bad ICP leak diesel into the motor which in turn eventually ends up in the pan? Or is not even related at all to diesel getting into the motor? I thought that was the big rub on it.
I suppose I was getting ahead of myself. Doesn't that bad ICP leak diesel into the motor which in turn eventually ends up in the pan? Or is not even related at all to diesel getting into the motor? I thought that was the big rub on it.
Suppose the system is calling for 2800 PSI of injection pressure and the ICP is erroneously reporting that it has 1800 PSI. The ECM tells the IPR that it needs another 1000 PSI and the IPR delivers. Then a nanosecond later the ICP tells the ECM that it now has 3800 PSI (which is correct), so the ECM tells the IPR to back it off, then the ICP starts lying to the ECM again and it just goes nuts (this is all happening hundreds of times per second). That is what happens when you've got a liquid in an electronic circuit when it is not supposed to be there (see how well your cell phone works after you've dropped it in the toilet).
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Originally posted by detour13
I picked up my truck over the weekend....03, F250 x-cab 4x4, sonic blue.....Damn pretty truck. Ran Great Sunday.....Monday is a different story.......spit and sputtered @ 60mph....check engine light comes on....black smoke out the rear. Pulled into the dealer and there she sits waiting until today. Total miles on the truck...150. I just found this site so I'm not sure of the engine build date......
Hope all ends well
I picked up my truck over the weekend....03, F250 x-cab 4x4, sonic blue.....Damn pretty truck. Ran Great Sunday.....Monday is a different story.......spit and sputtered @ 60mph....check engine light comes on....black smoke out the rear. Pulled into the dealer and there she sits waiting until today. Total miles on the truck...150. I just found this site so I'm not sure of the engine build date......
Hope all ends well
Ford Recalls Diesels
Ford Motor Co. is calling back its new 6.0-liter diesel engine,
dubbed the
Power Stroke, for repairs. Notices go out this week to owners of
certain
2003 F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 pickups and Excursion SUVs. Ford says
66,720 trucks are affected.
Dealers will replace a defective injection control pressure sensor and
recalibrate the fuel injection and powertrain control modules. Reported
problems, primarily in cold-weather locales, include bucking and stalling.
Ford also is offering a free oil and filter change.
Ford calls the action a customer satisfaction program. It is not a
safety-related recall required by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
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