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Today i got a letter from ford saying that there is a recall on 6.0 super dutys and excursion about the ground cable on the battery maybe loose and can cause fire and/or may fry some of the electrical. I think it might of got my fuel gauge because it will read 1/4 of the tank left and the miles to empty will read 7 miles to empty.
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No letter as yet!
SFM,
I didn't receive a later yesterday, but I will let you know if one comes next week. What year model is your truck? It may be a year-specific recall, and mine in a 2003-end of year.
I don't put much stock in the overhead displays. I believe the mpg is optimistic by quite a bit since it is an "average", and I also believe the miles to empty is an average using a worst case scenario. My overhead temp gauge is also hot by about 6-8 degrees.
I wonder where the temperature sensor for the outside temp is located! I have a feeling it is under the outside skin of the top.
Let us know what happens when you get the recall fixed.
John Russell
I didn't receive a later yesterday, but I will let you know if one comes next week. What year model is your truck? It may be a year-specific recall, and mine in a 2003-end of year.
I don't put much stock in the overhead displays. I believe the mpg is optimistic by quite a bit since it is an "average", and I also believe the miles to empty is an average using a worst case scenario. My overhead temp gauge is also hot by about 6-8 degrees.
I wonder where the temperature sensor for the outside temp is located! I have a feeling it is under the outside skin of the top.
Let us know what happens when you get the recall fixed.
John Russell
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Originally Posted by southernfordman
Today i got a letter from ford saying that there is a recall on 6.0 super dutys and excursion about the ground cable on the battery maybe loose and can cause fire and/or may fry some of the electrical. I think it might of got my fuel gauge because it will read 1/4 of the tank left and the miles to empty will read 7 miles to empty.
My fuel gauge is reading all over the place. I don't have the heads up display but my fuel gauge has read all ove the place. Maybe this will solve my issue too.
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There was a news article about this issue in Reuters about two weeks ago -- it was then that I advised my Rancher friend.
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Yup, I got the recall notice on my early '03 F350.
Regarding fuel gage/console innacuracies, I've been battling this since I got the truck. Seems they can make the gage read right but the consoles wrong, or they can fix the console and the gage is wrong. Wierd problem. Last week they pulled the fuel tank and replaced the sender, said it was bent and that was causing the problem. We'll see if they really fixed it this time after I let it get to empty then fill up.
Regarding fuel gage/console innacuracies, I've been battling this since I got the truck. Seems they can make the gage read right but the consoles wrong, or they can fix the console and the gage is wrong. Wierd problem. Last week they pulled the fuel tank and replaced the sender, said it was bent and that was causing the problem. We'll see if they really fixed it this time after I let it get to empty then fill up.
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My letter showed up in Saturday's mail.
The recall number is 04S15.
The issue as stated in the letter is "The ground stud that attaches the negative battery terminal eylet to the engine block may be loose. If the ground wire is loose, electric current may flow to the radio suppression strap causing it to heat and potentially melt or ignite adjacent components, which could result in a fire."
Daryl
P.S. edit, my truck has an 02/03 build date.
The recall number is 04S15.
The issue as stated in the letter is "The ground stud that attaches the negative battery terminal eylet to the engine block may be loose. If the ground wire is loose, electric current may flow to the radio suppression strap causing it to heat and potentially melt or ignite adjacent components, which could result in a fire."
Daryl
P.S. edit, my truck has an 02/03 build date.
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Originally Posted by John Russell
I wonder where the temperature sensor for the outside temp is located! I have a feeling it is under the outside skin of the top.
Let us know what happens when you get the recall fixed.
John Russell
Let us know what happens when you get the recall fixed.
John Russell
As far as the overhead mileage goes, I'm not sure how it works but I suspect there may actually be a sensor somewhere that measure fuel flow. My logic is this. I run an aux tank of 65 gallons in the bed and use an electric fuel pump to pump fuel into my main truck tank. Both my miles to empty and MPG gauges are pretty acurate. I would say within a few tenths on MPG's. Now if it was reading off of the level in the tank and then calculating MPG's and I am pumping fuel into the main tank, I would expect it to read 100MPG or so. Now on the mileage to empty, I suspect it read the level of the tank as it does change as I put more in the main tank or let run down. I think it works by measuring the level in the tank and then calculating against the Avg MPG's to get the miles to empty. That's what I think anyway..............
