Boom!!!!! Pppsssssssstt!
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Just happened to me.
Punched it to get around a car and boom....pssst and no power. Seamed to drive OK but no power, so drove it home. Opened hood and rubber hose on the engine side blew off. Clamp sitting on the engine. Is there a recall, or is the rubber hose correct. Put the hose and clamp back on.
Us this common problem....scared to punch it now.
2004 with 8/03 build date.
Thanks
Ralph
Us this common problem....scared to punch it now.
2004 with 8/03 build date.
Thanks
Ralph
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From: Friendswood, Texas
Have you taken it back out for a drive since putting it back together? I put mine back together and it popped again less than a mile down the road. Ford replaced the tube with the two hoses connected under warranty. Sometimes the hose connections will hold after popping off but often times they won't, especially if it is the hose to the tube connection. For some reason the hose to turbo or hose to cooler joints hold fine after being disconnected but the two hose to tube connections don't do as well. There is a recall or at least a TSB on this and I believe it is fairly recent.
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HOse Blowoff
My turbo hose to intercooler pipe has blown off 6 times-once with only 12 lbs. of boost. Has never blown off at high boost. I carry a new hose behind the seat. I also have a small dent in the hood from the intercooler pipe. I finally made a bracket from the single alternator bolt to the ic pipe. No more hose blowoff but now clamp loosens. I put on new clamps and torqued to specs. Its not cool to have it blow off on the NY Thruway pulling a 5er and no place to go. My dealer helps me but we are getting disgusted. Suppose I could buy my 7.3 back? All this in an 04 with 20,000 miles-turbo was replaced at 10,000 mi.
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Originally Posted by mrcobra350
There is a replacement pipe available that is supposed to correct the problem.Customer Satisfaction Program #05B29
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Here We Go Again !!!!!
Well, here we go yet AGAIN! 
On July 6th, Ford supposedly FIXED it so it wouldn't blow again. We towed the following weekend, no hills, no problems, about a 200-mi round trip. Then, last Friday evening we decided spur-of-the moment to head up to Mammoth Mountain for some downhill mountain biking. So we hooked up the trailer and took off. Climbing out of the San Joaquin valley, we were running pretty hard - I did see 28 psi at about 50 mph and 2500 rpm - and because it was about 106° outside and the AC was on, it was running kinda hot - a fan came on that I never heard before. But, there were no problems there. We had been on the road for about 5 hours, about 1/2 an hour away from Mammoth, on a 6% upgrade, 20 psi, 55-60 mph, 2500 rmp - and THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!!!!!! URRRHHH! 9:30 pm, on the freeway, with a 31-ft 5'er, no cell-phone reception - yadda, yadda, yadda. So, Hubby climbs into the engine and puts 'er back together. We start up again and don't even get out of low gear when it blows again. This time, he wants to "glue" it ???? Only thing we can find in the trailer is hairspray - LOL! (Doesn't work - don't bother trying). We did get 5 miles further before it blew AGAIN, at only 15 psi! Okay, so Hubby is back inside the engine with more hairspray, it's closer to 11 pm now, and some drugged-out, wacko, drunk guy stops and asks us if we're out of gas (if only!). But, I digress....
After the third re-attachment, we decide to take it very slowly - keeping it under 10 psi - and we finally get to the RV park, only to find every jerk's pickup parked in FRONT of their trailers instead of in the overflow, so we could NO WAY get into our assigned spot. At midnight. Which is another rant for another time....
So, after a rippin' good time mountain biking all day Saturday
(at least PART of this story has a happy ending), Hubby still has it in his mind that some high-temp, contact-cement, gasket-glue will hold it all together. After visiting, and purchasing glue from: the grocery store; the drug store; the hardware store; and finally late Sunday morning - the auto parts store - he finally found some glue that he wants to use. Good up to 400°. So, he cleans all the oily residue off the hose & sleeve, glues it, clamps it, and we let it sit for a couple hours. We load up and head home, and 15 miles later..... BOOM PSSSSST! 
Well, the dude at the auto parts store had also thrown in a simple hose clamp for free. So, Hubby climbes yet again into the engine, applys said 29-cent hose clamp, and vows to not go over 10 psi for the entire next six hours on the homeward trip. Max speed 50 mph - on the freeway. But - we made it!!!! Yahooey!!!
And you know what was waiting for me in the mail when I got home??? My "customer satisfaction survey" from Ford on the initial visit for this fix less than a month ago - HA! Isn't it ironic?
Back to the dealer on Wednesday.
~~~~~TrekChick
P.S. I highly recommend mountain biking at Mammoth - what a BLAST !!!
On July 6th, Ford supposedly FIXED it so it wouldn't blow again. We towed the following weekend, no hills, no problems, about a 200-mi round trip. Then, last Friday evening we decided spur-of-the moment to head up to Mammoth Mountain for some downhill mountain biking. So we hooked up the trailer and took off. Climbing out of the San Joaquin valley, we were running pretty hard - I did see 28 psi at about 50 mph and 2500 rpm - and because it was about 106° outside and the AC was on, it was running kinda hot - a fan came on that I never heard before. But, there were no problems there. We had been on the road for about 5 hours, about 1/2 an hour away from Mammoth, on a 6% upgrade, 20 psi, 55-60 mph, 2500 rmp - and THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!!!!!! URRRHHH! 9:30 pm, on the freeway, with a 31-ft 5'er, no cell-phone reception - yadda, yadda, yadda. So, Hubby climbs into the engine and puts 'er back together. We start up again and don't even get out of low gear when it blows again. This time, he wants to "glue" it ???? Only thing we can find in the trailer is hairspray - LOL! (Doesn't work - don't bother trying). We did get 5 miles further before it blew AGAIN, at only 15 psi! Okay, so Hubby is back inside the engine with more hairspray, it's closer to 11 pm now, and some drugged-out, wacko, drunk guy stops and asks us if we're out of gas (if only!). But, I digress....
After the third re-attachment, we decide to take it very slowly - keeping it under 10 psi - and we finally get to the RV park, only to find every jerk's pickup parked in FRONT of their trailers instead of in the overflow, so we could NO WAY get into our assigned spot. At midnight. Which is another rant for another time....
So, after a rippin' good time mountain biking all day Saturday
(at least PART of this story has a happy ending), Hubby still has it in his mind that some high-temp, contact-cement, gasket-glue will hold it all together. After visiting, and purchasing glue from: the grocery store; the drug store; the hardware store; and finally late Sunday morning - the auto parts store - he finally found some glue that he wants to use. Good up to 400°. So, he cleans all the oily residue off the hose & sleeve, glues it, clamps it, and we let it sit for a couple hours. We load up and head home, and 15 miles later..... BOOM PSSSSST! Well, the dude at the auto parts store had also thrown in a simple hose clamp for free. So, Hubby climbes yet again into the engine, applys said 29-cent hose clamp, and vows to not go over 10 psi for the entire next six hours on the homeward trip. Max speed 50 mph - on the freeway. But - we made it!!!! Yahooey!!!
And you know what was waiting for me in the mail when I got home??? My "customer satisfaction survey" from Ford on the initial visit for this fix less than a month ago - HA! Isn't it ironic?
Back to the dealer on Wednesday.
~~~~~TrekChick
P.S. I highly recommend mountain biking at Mammoth - what a BLAST !!!
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From: Florida
I assume it applies to 05. You would have to call a dealer and if your lucky they might know. Sorry I couldnt be of much help. If you cant find an answer I can call the dealer I used to work at in Florida and find out.
Trek Chic good attitude I would have been looking for blood if that happened to me...LOL
Trek Chic good attitude I would have been looking for blood if that happened to me...LOL
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Your'e lucky you just had the Boom, Pppppssssssssssttttttt!!!! Mine had a Boom, BBBBaaaaNNGGGG, Pppppssssssttttttt.....the bang was the clamp splitting and denting the cross brace to my hood!!! This just happened on Friday night on my way for the long weekend and then did the bang, ppppsssssstttttt three times on my way home!
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Originally Posted by TrekChick
Well, here we go yet AGAIN!
Back to the dealer on Wednesday.
~~~~~TrekChick
P.S. I highly recommend mountain biking at Mammoth - what a BLAST !!!
Back to the dealer on Wednesday.
~~~~~TrekChick
P.S. I highly recommend mountain biking at Mammoth - what a BLAST !!!
I'm hoping to go to Panorama on Aug 20 to ride with Byron Grey! I rode with him a few years ago and then partied with him and Mike Kinraid (on Norcos team--I think he came 3rd the Red Bull Rampage last year). Good times!