I had someone tell me that I should install a disaster prevention kit on my F350. I am an RV transporter so I put a lot of miles on my truck while pulling a lot of weight.
I guess my question would be should I put this kit on my truck?

thank you.

 

I can't see the harm in doing this with a mature product from a respected manufacturer, and definitely see the benefit if the CP4 fails.

I'm curious if anyone else here has experience with this.

Welcome aboard!

 

Presumably you have the PSD. Switch to the 6.7 forum as there’s lots of information about the disaster prevention kit and also replacement pump.

 

I did the RV transporter as a retirement gig for 4 years after retiring from my career, to that end I did 300K miles on a 2015 F450 and 350K miles on a 2017 F450. I only had one issue, on the 2017 at 227K miles the CP4 pump crapped out on me 40 miles West of Laramie WY in the middle of BFE, got towed back to Laramie, WY to the Ford dealership. Long story short, the dealership was amazing to work with and got me going in about 9 days, FORD sells a kit for just such an occasion (Apparently happens enough to warrant such / but not talk about it) the kit is the CP4 pump, all new injectors high pressure fuel lines, etc. all has to be replaced due to sintered metal contamination from the self destructed pump. I religiously maintained my F450's changing the oil every 10K miles (every 3 weeks) and fuel filters / air filters every 20K miles. I asked the mechanic if there was any sign of water contamination he said no, I ran the numbers, I had ran 22,000 gallons of diesel through that truck by the time the pump failed. Long story short is this low Sulphur bio-diesel doesn't possess the lubricity the old #2 stuff has or what they run in Europe.

If I was going to run hard and long again and didn't want to risk being stranded in BFE with an $11K repair bill, I would dang sure run a lubrication additive to my fuel and have a disaster prevention kit installed. Just my 2 cents if its worth anything.

 

Good luck making your plans to get home.

 

How does any of your above advice relate to the CP4 fuel pump Disaster Prevention Kit ?