Just to be clear, I will say it again, I LITERALLY do not have the extra $100. I wish I did. My cards are maxed and all I have is enough to pay for one of these cheaper solutions. I do not have a choice here. Please do not tell me to just go with ficmrepair.com.

 

Not all reconditioned units are the same. For instance, not all will replace the common failure parts like these. Plus ficmrepair.com verifies the FICM function not only on the bench but also its installed in a test truck and ran through its paces.
Like you said any e can reflow solder, so why would you pay for just that?
​​​​​​ I've never heard of anyone using those you're inquiring. Best luck.

 

I am not trying to be a smart ***, but which one is the good one? I see competitor so I assume it's the bad one and I see motorcraft, which is ford and it looks worse than the one on the left. And mine looks better than both.

 

Do I get to keep my own board with ficmrepair? B/c now I realize that I'm probably going to get a board that is much worse than mine ever was! And I'm giving them a brand new looking board!

 

The point is the Motorcraft one uses new components. Not just a reflow of solder of a failed component like so many of these ebayers or basement businesses do.
Why don't you take 15 minutes and talk to Ed or one of his techs @ FICMREPAIR.COM . They can explain and answer all of your concerns.

 

I will do that, thanks for getting back.

 

I was just surprised that on the motorcraft one they did not even wipe off the flux residue, eventually that eats away at the joint.

 

I screen snapped that pic from their video. They may have cleaned it up before re-assembly but I don't know. I actually saved the pic for the # on the components. You can see the competitors were overheated.
These eight solder joints are the most common failure. This was someone's home attempt but over heated it. Upon inspection using a pick or X-acto knife you can find the bad joint by prying on each end of the resistors and if it pops up its faulty, obviously.

 

I made a mistake by everything I said. I called and spoke to Ed at ficmrepair.com, very nice and very honest guy. I am so glad I called him. He gave me a few other things to look for and said to be honest, based on what I told him, he does not even believe that I have a ficm issue. They also sell everything else for the 6.0. I told him I cannot wait to actually give him money b/c it's very rare to find an honest person like that these days. Most people are fake and concentrating on how they are going to rape you.

So I will check these other things out and see if they are causing my issue. It has started up again. This is tough.

 

I spoke to your (boss I assume), Ed and he has easily convinced me to work with you guys. I cannot say enough about our 10 minute conversation, but I fully trust ficmrepair.com. I look forward to working with you and to solving my problem, to which unfortunately I am not even close. I checked the ICP duty cycle like Ed suggested, around 21% is good and 29% is bad and it's definitely the oil pressure. Well, mine is 23%, so I assume it is good. Then he suggested it could be chafing to the harness, I will have to take the harness out to see and perform a continuity test on all wires. Unfortunately it is too cold here to do any work on the truck today. This weather SUCKS. Then there is ground problems, I wouldn't even know where to begin with that. Also, just to let everyone know, all of my codes are circuit low along with contribution. Which ficmrepair.com says is almost always bad alternator/batteries. I just replaced one of my batteries about a year or so ago as well as the alternator. My voltage always shows good. This is definitely one tough problem. I've been trying to fix it for years and it's just gotten so bad that it really needs to be fixed now. But I've been searching for years and still have not found the problem. I've been inside the engine so many times. Do you know how frustrating this is?

 

Hi John - you are too kind. This actually IS Ed. Lol

Either it just didn't come up in our conversation that you had all circuit low codes or I just didn't snap to it. At any rate, with this newly internalized information, I'd actually say that you *do* have a FICM issue. Now it may also be that you have a high pressure oil system issue, too, but there is a technical service bulletin out by Ford that essentially says that if you've got FICM issues and you have other issues, too, take care of the FICM issue and see what remains.

Hope this helps!

Ed

 

Ok Ed, I thought it was an employee b/c when I told you who I was from the forum, you said no, it wasn't you. So anyway, I just took the truck out again, monitored the icp, always 22 or 23% duty cycle at idle. This problem is totally intermittent. If I shut the truck down and start it right back up, it will still miss. If I wait for some time, it won't and I need to drive it to get it to do it again. I don't believe it is the harness for this reason. I have wiggled every part of it I could, I have pushed and yanked on the ficm connectors. Nothing fixes it once it happens. Sometimes when I floor it, it'll stop. It just happens way too often now. When I shut off injector #4, it hardly makes a difference. It does, but not much. As if #4 was working a little bit. All others make a huge difference. This has happened with #8 previously, same thing. But now #8 is fine. Really weird. I'm going to box it up and send it in for a diagnosis.

Thanks

 

Our phone connection wasn't that incredible. It sounds like I misunderstood your question. Anyway, I'm glad that I saw this post and look forward to getting your module in for repair!

 

Fantastic Ed, I will send it out first thing Monday morning. I will mark it with "The guy from the forum" so that you know who it's from.

Thanks again

 

Sounds like s plan!