Thanks a heap Choctaw Bob. I got the same hose and spring clamps, but they blamed the EBP and this is the second one they replaced on this truck with 34K. I'm towing my 5'ver this weekend. It better work or I have to get rid of it. If my wife goes down there, they have REAL problem.

 

I remember when C. Bob blew his first hose and he explained how he fixed it.

The problem is, I will forever have a bad mental picture of his short butt swinging in the breeze while he was perched on the front of that truck ....I even think he needed a ladder to get there....LOL

 

I read that post, LOL. I bet my butt is bigger. Man, that thing gets hot.

 

It blew again today. Towing my 5'ver back from the mountains. At least it happened on the way back, but I still had to wait on the side of the HW for it to cool down with the family. Not good. Funny thing is I was hardly pulling compared to the way up. Only about 2K RPM when I had been up to 3-3.5k. I put my keys in the service envelope and told them to either fix it or buy it back for an 06. They had the area FE try to fix it and that didn't work. I don't trust the truck and I don't trust Ford to fix it. Houston, we have a problem.

 

If it has the metal tube you can fix it yourself for free in less than an hour with a pair of channel lock pliers. Check my original post out in the early pages of this thread.


Ryan

 

It's only blown off on the turbo end and I don't want mess with that end of it. This time it also blew the black plastic hose guides above it to pieces. I found the hose clamp about 2 feet away laying on the engine cowl. Good thing I've learned to keep a spare. Thanks though.

 

You still checkin tubes?
My son is getting involved in kart racing. I hope we meet up with you some day since the Albuquerque trip never came about.

 

Thanks for all the information that FTE provides.

Last week my intercooler hose blew off in the middle of Arkansas and I knew just how to fix it and did not have to wait on Ford service to work in into their schedule. I will always carry brake clean and extra hose clamps. I made it to my destination in AL but replaced the hose and clamp anyway. Picked up the parts in Little Rock, AR.

Again thanks for the help!
FTE is great!
Daryl

 

The dealer finally put screws in through the clamp and glued it. Problem is, the wife said she and the kids will follow me in the other car when I pull the trailer. It may never blow again, but I'm trading it after less than a month. 7 times with me and the previous owner and Ford says the clock started over when I bought it. They offered to replace with a new 06 for $8000 out of my pocket. Some deal. I love the truck, but it's too late. I'll post again if I ever own another Ford truck.

 

I know the butt is big and made bigger looking by my short legs. My head down in the engine compartment with my knees on the radiator must have mad them take a photo or two.

Seroiusly, you going bird hunting in a couple of weeks?

 

Yes I am.

I e-mailed you last week. P.M. or e-mail me.

 

Well after reading this thread I really appreciate the fact that I am not the only guy who was spotted on the side of the road in a snowstorm with big rig's and their wind blast rippin by as I was (tail wagging inthe wind) trying put the blue turbo pipe back onto the metal tube. Yeah and it is one hot situation without gloves. That was last year -which included a missed day of Elk hunting, many codes about overboost and a new turbo from Ford under warranty. This year camping - same thing - truck is under load at altitude hauling our Lance Camper and wham off it goes again - of course it was labor day weekend and I was in the middle of nowhere and the hose would not stay on for love or money - cleaned all parts, scuffed them wiith sandpaper and it came off 4 more times. I was not a happy camper but I found someone with a satellite phone and I called the wife who drove to Reno and picked up a new short angled blue pipe and drove it to me. The old pipe was all loose and rubbery and the new pipe was stiff and stout - is the look and feel of the old pipe normal degradation becasue of the oil and heat? I put the new pipe on cleaned connection points and made it home 700 miles with no pop off (I did keep the revs below 2200)- this time back at the dealer Ford found no overbost codes just a code that inidcated that the engine had lost the blue pipe.
My dealer is kind of standoffish about the whole thing and it is clear to me that if i am to drive this truck I must have spare blue pipes (both upper and lower) and clamps (different for upper and lower) and gloves and sandpaper and a decent toolkit - which I do. I feel the same trust issues noted by others - you take your friends a family in your truck and you don't need to have the truck repeatedly let you down because of what appears to me as just plain old bad engineering. It seems clear to me that the blue pipes are a designed overboost pressure release mechanism so that the more expensive turbo parts don't get toasted in excessive boost conditions - seems reasonable. Unfortunately the overboost appears to occur under normal driving conditions which then blows off the pipes. I mean can it be that hard to design connector pipes that can stay on at higher boost pressures? - or design an engine that doesn't overboost the turbo under normal driving?

 

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It seems some folks have more problems with this than others.

How many miles are on your truck?

Any mods like programmers, exhaust, etc...?

Other than recalls, have you had any other issues?

 

KW5413

Thanks for the welcome. This website and related forums have the best and most helpfull information I have found about issues with my 6.0 F350. much appreciated.

My truck is a 2004 F350 4 door 4WD dually with the auto trans. No mods, it is 100% stock. It is not a daily driver and we use it for hauling our lance camper or our boat so we have ony 18k miles to date.
On our first trip up to Canada two weeks after buying the truck I had the wire loom short out against the engine block which gave a FICM error when we got into a dealer near seattle. This was repaired under warranty after we hobbled home - at the time (early summer 2004) no one seemed to know what was happening with the wire short on the block and then about a year later the wire loom recall came out.

Aside from the wire recall and the multiple turbo pipe blow offs and the replaced turbo I still really like the truck. The whole family fits inside, plenty of room and power to haul our stuff. I would really like to get the turbo issues sorted out so I can use the truck and get reliable service from it.

 

Sorry if I seem to be digging here...Do you know what your engine build date is? This can be important as some '04 MY has the '03 engine...and there were a lot of changes from '03 to '04 engine builds.

Do you know if all the recalls have been completed?