Excursion diesel dies!
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From: Eagle Mountain
Excursion diesel dies!
Pleae help the auto illiterate!
I have a fully charged battery and a full tank. The car starts and then dies, sometimes after idling for just a few seconds, sometimes after driving just a few yards.
I spoke to an auto dealer and they had me depress a flexible yellow button on a clear cylinder and also reach behind the powerstroke and turn a yellow L-bracket 90 degrees to allow some liquid to run out.
After doing these the car started and drove about two miles, but then died again.
Any ideas? :-staun
I have a fully charged battery and a full tank. The car starts and then dies, sometimes after idling for just a few seconds, sometimes after driving just a few yards.
I spoke to an auto dealer and they had me depress a flexible yellow button on a clear cylinder and also reach behind the powerstroke and turn a yellow L-bracket 90 degrees to allow some liquid to run out.
After doing these the car started and drove about two miles, but then died again.
Any ideas? :-staun
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Excursion diesel dies!
Why did no-one suggest the fuel filter? Or water/fuel seperator?
(BTW, are those two functions combined on the PSD filter?)
Sounds like the classic "water in the filter" to me.
(BTW, are those two functions combined on the PSD filter?)
Sounds like the classic "water in the filter" to me.
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Excursion diesel dies!
>Why did no-one suggest the fuel filter? Or water/fuel
>seperator?
>(BTW, are those two functions combined on the PSD filter?)
>
>Sounds like the classic "water in the filter" to me.
Ahem...
>
I gathered from this that it had already been done:7
These were the symptoms of my last CPS encounter...
BTW How ya been monsta?
>seperator?
>(BTW, are those two functions combined on the PSD filter?)
>
>Sounds like the classic "water in the filter" to me.
Ahem...
>
I spoke to an auto dealer and they had me depress a flexible
>yellow button on a clear cylinder and also reach behind the
>powerstroke and turn a yellow L-bracket 90 degrees to allow
>some liquid to run out.
>yellow button on a clear cylinder and also reach behind the
>powerstroke and turn a yellow L-bracket 90 degrees to allow
>some liquid to run out.
These were the symptoms of my last CPS encounter...
BTW How ya been monsta?
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Excursion diesel dies!
Also has the fuel filter been changed recently?
You might be sucking air around the filter base cap.
Have Ford do it. Do you have warranty? I am not sure what the fuel system coverage period is on the Power Stroke, but I think it's included in the factory 100k mile engine warranty.
You might be sucking air around the filter base cap.
Have Ford do it. Do you have warranty? I am not sure what the fuel system coverage period is on the Power Stroke, but I think it's included in the factory 100k mile engine warranty.
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Excursion diesel dies!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-Apr-02 AT 00:09 AM (EST)]It always makes me wonder about a guy (or girl) when he refers to his excursion or f series, with a DIESEL no less, as a car!
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Excursion diesel dies!
Thanks for all the help. 
Yesterday morning we changed the air filter and the fuel filter. We thought we were in the clear, but a couple of miles out I was dead in the water again.
So, we towed her in and, just as some of you suspected, it was the CPS. (Which, apparently, is a regular problem with Ford diesels.)
Within a couple of hours I was on the road again.
Now, as for weldman...
In out home we generally call the Excursion "the truck," as opposed to "the car," which represents our Lexus. But under the stress of having been stranded out in the middle of nowhere, I insensitively used the offensive form in front of all you he-men!
Please forgive this major social faux pas!
On the other hand, a car can be defined as "A self-propelled passenger vehicle that usually has four wheels used for land transport." So, technically, I wasn't all that wrong.
Thanks again all,
Alison
Yesterday morning we changed the air filter and the fuel filter. We thought we were in the clear, but a couple of miles out I was dead in the water again.
So, we towed her in and, just as some of you suspected, it was the CPS. (Which, apparently, is a regular problem with Ford diesels.)
Within a couple of hours I was on the road again.
Now, as for weldman...
In out home we generally call the Excursion "the truck," as opposed to "the car," which represents our Lexus. But under the stress of having been stranded out in the middle of nowhere, I insensitively used the offensive form in front of all you he-men!
Please forgive this major social faux pas!On the other hand, a car can be defined as "A self-propelled passenger vehicle that usually has four wheels used for land transport." So, technically, I wasn't all that wrong.
Thanks again all,
Alison
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From: Toronto, Canada
Excursion diesel dies!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-Apr-02 AT 11:04 PM (EST)]Alison,
Thanks for the graciously taking my criticism!!
I'll graciously take yours as well, glad to hear that your Ex is back on the road.
We all need a little ribbing now and then!:-)
Thanks for the graciously taking my criticism!!
I'll graciously take yours as well, glad to hear that your Ex is back on the road.
We all need a little ribbing now and then!:-)
