Iam looking at a 2000 7.3 powerstroke that has some problems first it is hard to start cranks like it has a dead cyl. Second after starting it has no power not even enough to move. At first it would only run if held wide open but once it warmed up it would idle and rev and move but barly still had a miss. The weird thing is it did not smoke blue black or white also no strong smell of diesel and no smell of oil at all. Truck has 230ish miles and there are no maintenance records.air filter was new.any help would be appreciated.

 

Automatic or standard transmission? Could be transmission trouble on the moving thing.

Did you check it for blowby by flipping the oil cap upside down?

 

Automatic transmission and no I didn't pull the oil cap off I wish I would have ism going to look at it again in a a few days and I will

 

In addition to the oil cap trick, remove the intake and look at the turbo wheel if possible. If it looks dusted it is possible it may have a cylinder with low compression.

Best would probably be if you could get a compression test done to it.

Welcome to FTE by the way.

Baatzy

 

Buy a $12 fuel filter and swap it out. I've seen some terrible filters in there.

 

Good advice on the cap trick and pull the intake to see if the wheel is damaged...dusting is bad, chunks missing is even worse.

What kind of air filter is present on the truck?

When you look at the truck again, see if there is any black residue in the degas bottle/coolant reservoir. If you pull the fuel filter, see if it is yellow-ish brown or if it is black.

 

Bring a code reader and see if anything is stored there...

 

Check the coolant and the oil to make sure neither one has the other in it as well...