The Woes Continue!!!
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The Woes Continue!!!
Just curious if anyone has had these same ailments.
On 9/23/06, while driving down the highway, I lost all lights to my heater display in the dash. The "lights out" condition lasted about 30 minutes and then came back on. On Sunday, my spedometer quit working for about 10 miles, or about 20 minutes. (I was on a gravel road, pulling an overloaded trailer.) It then came back on. I am not sure if they are related, but it seems some electrical glitch could be causing both problems.
BTW, I still have the 1700 rpm lurching, and a host of other problems that have never been corrected.
On 9/23/06, while driving down the highway, I lost all lights to my heater display in the dash. The "lights out" condition lasted about 30 minutes and then came back on. On Sunday, my spedometer quit working for about 10 miles, or about 20 minutes. (I was on a gravel road, pulling an overloaded trailer.) It then came back on. I am not sure if they are related, but it seems some electrical glitch could be causing both problems.
BTW, I still have the 1700 rpm lurching, and a host of other problems that have never been corrected.
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Electrical problems are the worst. I had one in my 1985 BMW that I had bought new in Germany. It turned out to be a bad socket in the fuse box that caused an intermittent problem. I finally found it myself after much hair pulling and not a little cursing. Hope you get a knowledgable tech for that one.
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The speedo issue could also be a VSS (vehicle speed sensor) problem. I believe it will throw a PO500 error code. Maybe a combo of overload, rough gravel road, etc caused it?
I've had my trucks climate control go blank twice. Both incidents were immediately after starting the truck so I shut it down, waited a few seconds, then all came back as normal. That happened once last year and once again earlier this year. Ghost in the machine?
Check the ground connection as vloney suggested and also make sure all the fuses are seated well and the fuse panel is fastened tightly.
I've had my trucks climate control go blank twice. Both incidents were immediately after starting the truck so I shut it down, waited a few seconds, then all came back as normal. That happened once last year and once again earlier this year. Ghost in the machine?
Check the ground connection as vloney suggested and also make sure all the fuses are seated well and the fuse panel is fastened tightly.
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Originally Posted by moldman7n
Hope you get a knowledgable tech for that one.
Maybe our newer techs here can help. It has been a while since jfralph has been on the boards.
Might give this a swing:
Various Electronic and Driveability Symptoms and Codes:
2005 F-Super Duty trucks built before 5-11-05 may exhibit various electronic-related symptoms due to loose/miss-installed fuses in the engine compartment fuse box. These symptoms may be intermittent. The fuses should be inspected to verify they are installed into the terminals in the fuse box and not along side the terminals.
Fuses--Symptoms
#9, 20 amp: Trailer turn signals inoperative
#10, 10 amp: Check Engine Light; Codes P1633, P0446
#11, 10 amp: Speedo bounce, ABS light, Cruise control inop; Codes U1900, U2023, P0500-P0503
#12, 2 amp: Cruise control inop, TBC Fault displayed, chime; Code C2803
#13, 15 amp: Day time running lamps inop
#15, 15 amp: Crank/no start, bucking, stall; Codes P2614, P2617, P1378
#17, 10 amp: A/C inop or not cooling
#18, 10 amp: Crank/no start, bucking, stall; P2614, P2617, P1378, P0611
#20, 10 amp: Trailer back up lamp inop
TSB 05-11-14
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Truck goes in Thursday for a "We can't find anything wrong, bring it back when it acts up." response.
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if you have eatc then your control head is going out, have seen several of these, check the fuse box as kw posted. have seen one of the fuses not in properly. the fuse was in the slot but the prongs werent in the female spade terminals, barely making contact.
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Electronic Automatic Temperature Control (EATC)
A complete interior environment control system integrated into the instrument panel that includes the following features:
A complete interior environment control system integrated into the instrument panel that includes the following features:
- The driver determines the most comfortable temperature setting (between 65 and 85 degrees)
- A delay feature prevents an undesired hot or cold blast immediately after starting the vehicle
- Full manual override capability for blower speed and/or automatic functions
- Blower control fan switch features AUTO and variable HI to LO fan settings
