View Poll Results: Anyone else have a blown turbo due to rodents???
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Heard this one yet???
Just a little story for you guys, maybe one you haven't heard yet. My dad has a 2000 F350 Powerstroke Crew Cab DRW w/ camper. This last fall we were on a combination Hunting trip and car delivery from Seattle to North Dakota. Truck with 12' camper and a 20' car trailer w/ a fully restored 65 Mustang being delivered to a customer in ND. About halfway there, Western Montana, the truck began to blow some excess black smoke from the exhaust, mostly only while under heavy power, like pulling passes. We thought it might be a batch of bad gas and filled up to try some new Diesel. Truck worked perfect on the flats, but when we would pull hills the black smoke came back. We stopped at a dealer in Montana to have it checked. When we removed the air cleaner we discovered that a rat had climbed in through the intake and built a nest right on top of the air cleaner, thus clogging the intake system, thus causing the truck to run too rich. We were releived to find the problem and fix it, on with out trip, right??
The truck ran much better, no more smoke. We continued on through Montana and made our way into ND and delivered the Mustang to its owner. While doing some local hunting in ND I noticed that the truck seemed to have less power than it usually does. Now I had just bought my new 2006 Powerstroke w/ the 6.0 litre, so I thought maybe my new truck just has that much more power that I was used to, but it just didn't seem right. I was also making a wierd exhaust leak type noise. We found a local Napa that was just about to close and changed the fuel filter in the parking lot just in case it was causing the problem.
After hunting for a couple more days the power seemed to get worse again, ultimately to the point where it had about 1/4 the power I remembered it having.
Naturally, we realized we must have a bigger problem that we had hoped. We limped the truck 30 miles back to town to a Ford dealer, assuming the worst. And what do you know, the dealer pulled the turbo hosing off to find that the turbo fins had been completely destroyed by debris from the rats that had got past the airfilter and into the turbo. To make the problem worse, the debris from the turbo coming apart made its way into the intercooler, clogging it.
To make a long story as short as possible, the dealer had to have a new turbo and intercooler rushed to ND as we put our trip on hold waiting in a nearby hotel. After 3 days our truck was repaired and we were on with our trip. The truck is running excellent with no further problems.
After $2,500 in repairs and three days in a hotel in the middle of ND, needless to say, we would have no problem with every rat in the world dying of horrible drownings.
Believe it or not, we got our homeowners insurance to cover the repairs, rodent damage....
The truck ran much better, no more smoke. We continued on through Montana and made our way into ND and delivered the Mustang to its owner. While doing some local hunting in ND I noticed that the truck seemed to have less power than it usually does. Now I had just bought my new 2006 Powerstroke w/ the 6.0 litre, so I thought maybe my new truck just has that much more power that I was used to, but it just didn't seem right. I was also making a wierd exhaust leak type noise. We found a local Napa that was just about to close and changed the fuel filter in the parking lot just in case it was causing the problem.
After hunting for a couple more days the power seemed to get worse again, ultimately to the point where it had about 1/4 the power I remembered it having.
Naturally, we realized we must have a bigger problem that we had hoped. We limped the truck 30 miles back to town to a Ford dealer, assuming the worst. And what do you know, the dealer pulled the turbo hosing off to find that the turbo fins had been completely destroyed by debris from the rats that had got past the airfilter and into the turbo. To make the problem worse, the debris from the turbo coming apart made its way into the intercooler, clogging it.
To make a long story as short as possible, the dealer had to have a new turbo and intercooler rushed to ND as we put our trip on hold waiting in a nearby hotel. After 3 days our truck was repaired and we were on with our trip. The truck is running excellent with no further problems.
After $2,500 in repairs and three days in a hotel in the middle of ND, needless to say, we would have no problem with every rat in the world dying of horrible drownings.
Believe it or not, we got our homeowners insurance to cover the repairs, rodent damage....
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Last winter my truck sat for a couple of weeks. I usually leave the hood open because of pack rats in the area. I took a short trip and decided to check the oil as I was getting close to oil change time and noticed that the filter minder on the air filter was in the yellow. I opened the filter box and it was full of locust tree pods a rat had stashed in there. Luckyly I didn't drive that far and the rat hadn't chewed though the filter.
